As the first day of school on Aug. 14 approaches, Clark County School District educators are getting ready to open six new schools across the valley, including Mathis Elementary School near Arville Street and Windmill Lane.
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When Mark Shunock came to Las Vegas to open Rock of Ages at The Venetian, he thought he’d stay for six months before returning to Los Angeles. That was five years ago. Instead, Shunock started the charity benefit variety show Mondays Dark, at Body English at Hard Rock Hotel. A few years and two venues later, Shunock and Mondays Dark hit the $500,000 mark July 24.
A man is in custody Monday afternoon after barricading himself in a vacant southwest Las Vegas Valley home.
Lunchtime in the Boulder Junction neighborhood of the southwest valley has gotten a whole lot cheesier. Cured & Whey on South Valley View Boulevard opened in October with a tight menu of hot and cold sandwiches, salads and custom charcuterie boards.
Just a few weeks ago, customers talked with shop owner Michael Ray and his niece while browsing for European delicacies and smoked meats. Now his store is the quietest it has been since opening three years ago.
A judge denied Tyler Knaub’s request for joint custody of his son two weeks before Knaub stabbed the 4-year-old to death and killed himself, records show.
There’s a strong running culture in the Las Vegas Valley. Whether its on the track, the trail or around the neighborhood, there’s likely a group for it.
Southwest valley artist Susan Tosches-Deneau has tapped into the subcription craze with her business, Art Box Surprise. For $15 to $100 per month, art enthusiasts can have work by Las Vegas artists shipped to their door.
Look out, Roberto’s. There’s a new 24-hour taco place in town. Fun Tacos, a Mexican-American restaurant on South Rainbow Boulevard, opened April 22, serving up burritos, flautas, enchiladas and, yes, tacos.
A counseling and rehabilitation center in southwest Las Vegas that has been building a name for itself as the place to go for comprehensive mental health and addiction rehabilitation in the valley.
Water in Las Vegas is still safe to drink by federal and state standards, but researchers are watching nitrate levels in the water extracted from ground wells throughout the valley with alarm.
It started in his knees. Kasper Roden-Riisnaes, 9, began complaining in March that his legs and knees hurt. They hurt so much that he had trouble standing up and walking. While his mother, Kim Roden, initially thought it was just growing pains, she knew something was wrong when her son could barely get out of bed for school.
Acai bowls are a common sight on Instagram these days: perfectly-designed dishes of layered fruit and granola on top of blended frozen berries, drizzled in honey and sprinkled with granola, coconut chips or chia seeds.
Nothing appears to faze Devon Bates of southwest Las Vegas. The 16-year-old motocross rider is set to compete July 31 through Aug. 5 at the Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, about 75 miles west of Nashville.
Before the construction of Hamere Noh Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church in southwest Las Vegas, Demelash Assefa’s congregation held services in a rented space on University Road and South Maryland Parkway.