David Ellis, a Las Vegas soldier serving in Afghanistan, started the new year off right.
The state Health Division has moved to revoke the license of a senior citizen assisted-living facility in Las Vegas because of numerous deficiencies found in repeated inspections.
Long-shot gubernatorial candidate Mike Montandon got a boost Tuesday when Republicans in Nevada’s most populous county chose him over incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons and money and poll leader Brian Sandoval.
President Barack Obama nominated Las Vegas police Lt. Christopher Hoye on Wednesday to serve as U.S. marshal for Nevada.
Scott Frost’s dream was to open a Las Vegas version of Hussong’s Cantina, a Baja California icon for the party crowd.
WASHINGTON — Nevada has been awarded $6 million in federal stimulus funds to retrain workers for jobs in renewable energy fields, it was announced Wednesday.
Kenneth Miller, former chief financial officer of Valley Bank of Nevada, died Friday at Sunrise Medical Center. He was 81.
A drive by economic development authorities to induce more senior citizens to move to Nevada could help the state recover from its worst recession in generations, an analyst told legislators Wednesday.
A 51-year-old man was killed early Wednesday morning when he lost control of his truck, Las Vegas police confirmed.
The “crazy jazz” klezmer music of Meshugginah Klezmorim will be featured at 2 p.m. Sunday as the World Vibration Concert Series begins a new year at Winchester Cultural Center Theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
Nothing against the flashy costumes and the massive set pieces and all the other cool but hidden-until-now backstage stuff visitors can see on the “Jubilee!” backstage tour.
So now we’re going to have two costumed rock “Legends”-type shows, with one of them moving back into the Harmon Theater, which filed for bankruptcy protection this week.
Mouse House Trivia: “The Lion King” story pitch was shorthanded as “Bambi in Africa Meets Hamlet.” … To Roar or Not to Roar, Bamlet?
Brash rockers Ministry of Love are fond of both melody and mayhem and are one of the most road-tested acts in Vegas. What keeps ’em going? Guitarist Patrick Trout sheds some light, along with a little help from his bandmates Meg, Ryan, Lyle and Jeff.
John Menniti is no “Pepper” pooper; he just thinks there’s an even fabber Beatles album than “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The 46-year-old musician and his tribute band, The Fab, will perform “Revolver” in its entirety 8 p.m. Friday at the Cannery, 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas.
He wrote most of the songs for his band’s first record during chemistry class.
You know that forced smile some people give? Because there’s a blog devoted to just about everything, smiledead.com offers a collection of people “smiling like they’re dead inside.” The common thread in these smiles appears to be gritted teeth, though some border on wincing.
A few unexpected accessories made debuts on the 67th Annual Golden Globes red carpet.
Skin Solutions: Dr. Zein Obagi, a skin care pioneer, will make a personal appearance Saturday at Nordstrom at Fashion Show. Guests can hear him speak about the latest trends in skin care and then meet with Obagi for one-on-one consultations. Seminars will be held at 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. For an individual consultation, call 784-1412.
The new Brannon Hair salon at the HRH Tower is tangible proof that good things come to those who wait. Brannon, the owner and namesake of the salon, knows the feeling all too well.
A month before he was inaugurated, Barack Obama said he did not believe his victory marked an abrupt end to the skepticism about top-down government and social engineering ushered in by President Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 — he merely demurred that he thought it was a start.
Although several observers are crediting angst over the president’s radical health care agenda with pushing Republican Scott Brown to victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, the winner himself said Wednesday that the Obama approach to spending, taxes and terrorism were also of great concern to many voters.
A Las Vegas housing analyst says he doesn’t know of any possible scenario that would suggest things are going to improve drastically over the next year. There are too many negative factors and not enough positives, he says.
The Las Vegas Valley’s job market isn’t likely to return to expansion in 2010, and that means continued struggles for a high-tech sector that local officials have tried to expand for more than a decade, a local recruiting expert told a technology trade group Wednesday.