Teen entrepreneur Houston Gunn’s visit to sign copies of his book “Schooled for Success: How I Plan to Graduate from High School a Millionaire” is among literary highlights this week.
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Paula Jones, who recently retired from working in real estate, was inspired to write “Dalton’s Dream” as a follow-up to compiling her family history into a book.
Las Vegas Valley residents gathered Sunday night to commemorate World AIDS Day at UNLV.
First Friday, with its ever-changing layout, themes and activities, can be confusing and overwhelming, even for regular attendees.
When Roberta C. Cartwright, the namesake of Cartwright Elementary School, became Clark County’s Teacher of the Year in 1986, she was known as a person who was unafraid of joy in her classroom.
If you’re going to have a heart attack, perhaps Las Vegas is the best place to do it. Firefighterssave 30 percent of cardiac arrest patients, and the national average is 5 percent.
UNLV TO USE $10 MILLION DONATION TO EXPAND LITERARY PROGRAMS
The Las Vegas Cultural Corridor Coalition plans to offer a December to Remember again this year, with bright lights, hula dancing and bagpipes.
Police say one man is dead following a shooting Saturday night in North Las Vegas.
USO volunteer Jack Ross is happy with USO’s effort to assist armed forces personnel at McCarran International Airport and other lounges and clubs around the world, but he is disappointed that the nonprofit’s top administrator makes more in his salary package than the base pay for President Barack Obama.
The highly contagious norovirus might be to blame for the illness of more than a dozen children and at least a half dozen adults at the Rio on Friday morning.
In a city full of unusual sights, few outshine that of several thousand Santas ambling down the street en masse. The Las Vegas Great Santa Run is set to return to downtown Dec. 7, and organizers hope for a record number of attendees to the event, which benefits Opportunity Village.
After four years of catering to Southern Nevada’s sweet tooth, Gimme Some Sugar is expanding its business model to open a wine and dessert bar in Henderson. Whether it’s with peanut butter and jelly macarons or chocolate brownies, owners Kristen LoVullo and Ashley Mastowski have been working to find the right beverages that pair with their pastries.
Some Fridays, Kerry Clasby leaves her Ventura County, Calif., home at 4 a.m. to open the Downtown 3rd Farmers Market, 300 N. Casino Center Blvd., at 9 a.m.