Luxurious, comfortable bedding that cradles your body as you sleep doesn’t have to cost a fortune.
Diversity helps build strength and resiliency. Nowhere was this more apparent than at last week’s Greenbuild conference in Phoenix, Ariz. More than 28,000 people from around the world gathered to share, learn and plan for the continued acceleration of green building practices.
If any NFL coach had cause to cry Sunday, it was New England’s Bill Belichick, whose ill-fated decision to go for it on fourth-and-2 from his 28-yard line cost his team the game in a 35-34 loss at Indianapolis.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers continue to find slow fishing, though the Vegas Wash area continues to produce stripers and catfish. Stripers have been hitting bait as well as top-water lures, and the cats are taking worms and anchovies. Shad have been seen in the Boulder Harbor area, where anglers in boats and on the fishing pier have caught stripers. Just north of the Hemenway launch ramp is also productive.
Jose Aldo’s explosive knockout power got him a title shot, but the 23-year-old Brazilian still had some questioning his all-around game.
When it seemed UNLV was hitting rock bottom, sophomore guard Oscar Bellfield was full of hope.
Austin Brown and Josh Raimist were elementary school students at The Meadows when its high school football team won a fifth straight Class 2A state title in 2001.
First-year UNR coach David Carter could only chalk it up as a “learning experience.” Unfortunately for him, the lesson came against archrival UNLV.
Moapa Valley hasn’t won three consecutive state football championships since the 1960s.
It’s not often a high school quarterback passes for 490 yards and 10 touchdowns and his team loses by 54 points.
Imagine that you put in your time and hard-earned gas money to locate an area that holds quail or chukar. Then imagine that you make the long drive to that newfound honey hole and begin hunting only to learn that your every move is being closely monitored and copied by an SUV full of yahoos you don’t know from Adam.
Conan Pope, who killed his abusive father at age 15, had hoped for a pardon so that he could join the military and help support the child he and his girlfriend are going to have. But his two allies on the Pardons Board couldn’t beat a salient fact of his post-prison life — heroin. On a 6-2 vote, the board rejected giving a pardon to Pope.
Crime does pay, it seems. The Nevada Supreme Court has told district judges in Clark County to charge fees to defendants who are represented by the public defender’s office or otherwise represented free of charge.
Using a miniature version of a crochet hook, Dr. Vasana Cheanvechai carefully stripped the varicose veins in the back of the calves of a patient. To her medical intern, it looked like the vascular surgeon was pulling spaghetti out in inch-long pieces.
A man accused of posing as a Las Vegas police detective and sexually assaulting two women pleaded not guilty Wednesday in District Court.
North Las Vegas City Manager Gregory Rose is taking 30 days of executive leave effective immediately, he said Wednesday.
Most Las Vegas pet owners will be required to spay or neuter their cats and dogs by 4 months of age under an ordinance adopted Wednesday to help manage the pet overpopulation problem.
On a cool and sunny autumn afternoon, hundreds of students Wednesday were walking around the track at Green Valley High School to raise money for the science department.
At 48, James Wallis has spent all but three years of his adult life behind bars.
A federal government Web site tracking spending and job creation via the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act listed more than $1 billion coming to Nevada, including more than $7.7 million for the state’s 32nd, 22nd, 9th and 25th congressional districts.
CARSON CITY — In Nevada, the poor pay more of their income on taxes than the rich largely because the state does not levy a personal income tax, a national study concluded Wednesday.