A banner reading “Future Home of an American Hero: Army Cpl. Christopher Bales” hangs above the garage at a home in the 10000 block of Great Sioux Road. The home is a gift to Bales, who was selected in 2012 by PulteGroup and Operation Finally Home.
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The Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City and volunteers stuffed hundreds of holiday stockings for the fifth annual Stockings for our Troops.
Navy veteran Sandi Niccum, a longtime advocate for veterans in Las Vegas, died Nov. 15 at age 78.
The wife of an 85-year-old veteran being detained in North Korea implored authorities on Friday to let her husband return to his anxious family and end what she called a “dreadful misunderstanding.”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal will host a “Salute U.S. Veterans” celebration and job fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Texas Station in North Las Vegas.
Air Force Col. Barry Cornish has flown over Tule Springs in the cockpit of an F-15 more times than he can remember, but even the bones of a mammoth are pretty tough to spot at 400 mph.
A U.S. Navy sailor from California and his high school sweetheart are so anxious to get married they are going to tie the knot as soon as his plane lands at Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
The Las Vegas Rotary Club is looking for people to invite airmen from Nellis and Creech Air Force bases into their homes to share their Thanksgiving Day meals.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center will offer drive-up flu shots Saturday for veterans who are enrolled in the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System and have a VA identification card.
Like the red-white-and-blue jet their father flew, the one perched on a pedestal outside the Thunderbirds hangar at Nellis Air Force Base made their hearts soar Friday when the team re-dedicated the 600-pound model in honor of their dad, Capt. Gene Devlin.
Nobody was injured when a drone crashed on a range outside of Creech Air Force Base northwest of Las Vegas, military officials said.
Suicides across the military have dropped by more than 22 percent this year, defense officials said, amid an array of new programs targeting what the Defense Department calls an epidemic that took more service members’ lives last year than the war in Afghanistan did during that same period.
As the American Legion Post 8 battleship float rolled down Fourth Street Monday near the front of the annual Las Vegas Veterans Day parade, the two words spoken most often from tens of thousands of flag-waving spectators were “thank you.”
An independent assessment of Nevada’s public employee pension plan set for review Wednesday gives the retirement program good marks, suggesting its unfunded liability will decline over the next 30 years, requiring lower taxpayer-backed contributions to keep fiscally healthy.
The early photographs give the impression of serenity — lush summer green along old country roadways and riverbeds, and the sense that the outing is as much an opportunity to clear the head as it is to work the body. Those were the early days of a 4,000-mile bike ride that at times pushed Curt Wildemann’s physical and emotional limits. But he still says it was all well worth it.