The Spring Valley Area Command near Durango Drive and Sahara Avenue took a 30-square-mile chunk out of Enterprise’s 104-square-mile coverage area, helping trim wait times and travel distances for southwest valley officers.
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On Aug. 15, county commissioners approved six more firefighter positions for the station, along with 88 other positions. The fire positions will cost the county about $990,000 over the next year.
Every student at 35 low-income elementary schools across Clark County will have access to these fruit and vegetable snack options during class this year because of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Two schools in the southwest valley, Diskin and Red Rock, are participating in the program.
Opening a restaurant was Juno Sul’s life goal. The UNLV hospitality graduate grew up working in his father’s Korean restaurants in Los Angeles.
A section of South Jones Boulevard in southwest Las Vegas reopened just before noon Tuesday after a potential gas leak at aconstruction site forced authorities to shut it down.
Soccer-backer bars and supporters are celebrating the recent announcement of the United Soccer League’s expansion in Las Vegas, and fans say it signals a big step in making the sport more mainstream.
Developers and retailers are again flocking to the section of the 215 Beltway near South Durango Road that was stunted by the recession, and other developers in the area are following suit. “What’s happening in the southwest now is what was happing in 2005 or 2006,” said David J. Tina, president of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. “Not in a bad way, in a positive way.”
The restaurant is a joint venture between Isaac Shoham, 82, and his daughter, Sharon Littman. Along with their chef, Fawzi Qaz Qaz, the father-daughter duo created a menu of Mediterranean classics including shawarma, hummus, baba ghannouj and tabbouleh.
The brash vocals of the Beastie Boys’ “Brass Monkey” pumped through the speakers of Bazaar Studio & Parlor as Jon Rouse strode through the halls, past wall-sized art prints of grenades and guns, velvet sofas and stylist chairs. The fine-art photographer seemed at home in his 3,200-square-foot complex shared with hairstylist Cory Martin, which offers portraits and fashion shoots along with hair cuts, trims, color and styling.
A teenage boy suffered minor injuries after a truck “bumped” into him near Desert Oasis High School in the southwest valley Tuesday morning, according to Las Vegas police.
Firefighters battled a large fire affecting multiple trailers in the southwest valley, the Clark County Fire Department said in a statement.
A bill signed into law in June is expected to boost the state’s craft-beer industry, including in the southwest valley, activists and brewers say.
A Las Vegas girls soccer team can add “national champion” to its resume.
The former site of the notoriously violent Scoundrels Pub on South Decatur Boulevard has been occupied by Jackpot Bar and Grill since December. Jackpot owner Liza Ochiai began leasing the building in June 2016 and refurbished the 24-hour gaming establishment and restaurant to include a stone entryway and sign, replacing the yellow stucco exterior and red neon Scoundrels Pub logo.
In a world of rapidly expanding knowledge, increasing certification requirements, changing regulatory requirements and the ongoing federal debate over health care, U.S. physicians are susceptible to feeling exhausted, cynical and ineffective.
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