Despite a relatively short stay in the valley, a woman’s drive sparked true interest and inspired other preservationists to keep the area’s history alive.
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Tapping into the international market, an engineer whose hobby was flying planes decided to give his passengers a grand view of the Grand Canyon.
Bringing art and recreational opportunities to the desert has been one woman’s quest — a goal she has attained in many different ways at many different venues.
After leaving high school because he was making a bundle of money gambling, a boy from Minnesota founded a town in Nevada that bears his name and his luck.
The man who put UNLV on the map brought both prosperity and negative publicity to the university and its basketball program.
A driven woman with a knack for organization and a thirst for politics worked hard all her adult life to make Nevada a better place to live.
After some wins and losses in the political arena, a man whose hard-rock miner father’s independence is etched in his character finds himself as the Democratic whip of the U.S. Senate.
A woman who grew up as one of The Colony kids brings her people into the 20th century and helps them become self-sufficient in a somewhat selfish world.
He earned his gift of gab at the heels of his father, then brought his schtick to Las Vegas, bet against the odds, and won.
In a bloodless coup with the help of a banker-turned-mentor, a boy from back East took over a downtown hotel and everything he touched from then on was golden.
With a thunderous rumble that toppled tons of rock, miners using a monstrous machine Friday punched through a hill at the foot of Yucca Mountain, completing a five-mile tunnel that will tell if the mountain is safe for storing the nation’s high-level nuclear waste.
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Leaders of law enforcement organizations expressed alarm Sunday over the latest deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis while use-of-force experts criticized the Trump administration’s justification of the killing, saying bystander footage contradicted its narrative of what prompted it.
Richard Hsieh is looking to reverse a ruling that gave two outside lawyers a role in his son’s estate.
Jack Smith on Thursday defended his investigations of Donald Trump insisting that he had acted without regard to politics and had no second thoughts about the criminal charges he brought.
Though some showed support for reining in federal immigration agents, others in the valley said they feel more positive about ICE’s actions.
