Darren Adair retired after serving four years as finance director for North Las Vegas, helping guide the cash-strapped city toward solvency.
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After working as a dog groomer for more than 30 years, Kimberly Ward of North Las Vegas opened her first grooming business, Kim’s Passion for Paws, in July with her 21-year-old daughter Brittany Butler.
When Tim Woltz, 23, of the northwest valley met Malia Yanos at a party, her style intrigued him. She was wearing a white dress with a cut-out back, he said.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee recalls a home a few blocks away from his — near Cheyenne Avenue and Civic Center Drive — burning down about 40 years ago. The residents moved away, and soon it became a blighted property, he said.
Diane Keith, a 26-year National Park Service veteran, will oversee fossil-rich national monument in north Las Vegas Valley.
The Shade Tree women’s shelter kicked off a fundraising push Thursday to revive its transitional housing program, slated for suspension next week.
Dre Green of North Las Vegas said he and his two siblings — a younger brother and older sister — opened soul food eatery Fish Cage after realizing several restaurants were selling fake fish.
Before brothers Jorge and Jose Angeles opened Waves Las Vegas in July near the Arts District, they had been buying secondhand clothing and shoes from thrift stores and flipping them for more money for years.
A 15-year-old was arrested Tuesday in connection to a fatal hit-and-run from late July in North Las Vegas, police said.
Las Vegas is known as a 24-hour town, but North Las Vegas is the only Clark County municipality that offers 24/7 marijuana sales.
Entering a school year can be nerveracking for a first-year teacher, and 22-year-old Madonna Hakim and 21-year-old Emily Rios said they are grateful they don’t have to do it alone.
Ron Lutz has been cutting meat at The Butcher Block since he opened his first location in 2006 in the southwest valley, followed by a second shop in 2013 in Centennial Hills. After customers suggested they provide a place to eat, Lutz and his co-owner and wife, Jeannette, opened Chip off the Block Deli about one year ago at the northwest location.
A standing-room-only vigil at a North Las Vegas church called for peace and unity in the wake of white supremacist demonstrations that turned violent Aug. 12.
Southbound Interstate 15 has reopened after a Sunday morning rollover crash involving a semitrailer closed the freeway for hours near Apex.
Kroger-owned grocery chain Smith’s continues to invest in its Las Vegas Valley stores.