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Las Vegas City Hall could be the subject of a televised reality show, according to a proposal before the City Council.
North Las Vegas City Manager Tim Hacker and City Attorney Jeffrey Barr both resigned Wednesday, but newly elected Mayor John Lee called the departures amicable.
Residents along a segment of Clark County’s Sloan Channel are eager for construction of a 4½-foot wide wastewater pipeline set to do away with the sewer-dwelling pests,
A small, sweet thing happened Tuesday morning on the third floor of a medical office building where people go to die. It involved a retiree named Don Colbert, a doctor-slash-baker named Michael Zimmerman, and a woman named Jan Haupt, who was visiting her terminally ill mother, Belva Quello, who is 98 years old and not doing well.
In efforts to begin drafting a plan that it hopes will transform the region, Southern Nevada Strong recently began discussing the role of education in community development.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas adjunct professor William Donati’s books have focused on controversies. His career was launched when he researched a theory that Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy while co-writing “My Days with Errol Flynn: The Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles.” Donati concluded that Flynn was not a spy and that a prominent biographer had doctored documents to support the claim.
In book news this week, Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow are set to sign copies of their book “The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums and Hideouts” from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 16 at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, the Mob Museum; and Las Vegas writer Eric J. Miller, author of the soon-to-be released “For Rent: Dangerous Paradise” and the road trip comedy “The Metaphysics of Nudity,” is scheduled to deliver a presentation titled “Early Lessons of a Newbie e-Pubber” during a meeting of the Las Vegas Writers Group scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Tap House
A newlywed was back home in Salt Lake City and facing more medical tests, her mother said Monday, after being stabbed in the back in what authorities called a random attack on four people on a sidewalk just off the Las Vegas Strip.
The robotic voice that takes over Las Vegas’ airwaves before an emergency event is as synonymous with bad weather as a thunder clap. City of Las Vegas emergency management officer Carolyn Levering’s voice is likely a lot less familiar.