A new community center opening this week in the Silverado area has everything you’d expect in a new facility — space for fitness, meetings and socializing.
Two Asian community organizations, flanked by Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, spoke Tuesday in Las Vegas’ Chinatown to announce that nearly $55,000 has been raised ...
Chet Buchanan sitting atop a 30-foot-tall scaffold for 12 consecutive days has become a tradition synonymous with Christmas for many Las Vegans — and it’s all to raise awareness for the station’s annual toy drive, now in its 23rd year. Buchanan has been involved for all but …
It has been just months since the Martin Luther King Senior Center center reopened, and the seniors are delighted to return, the sunlit recreation room a new point of connection after being apart for so long ...
Navy veteran John Penley has been walking across the street from his apartment near East Twain Avenue in central Las Vegas to a nearby laundromat to catch a van that takes him ...
UNLV and one of the area’s biggest employers are partnering on a job training program to help former foster youth overcome the long odds of their circumstance.
Catholic Charities' annual Thanksgiving Day dining-in meal will be served today. “We bump it up a little bit, give them a little bit more cranberry sauce or maybe more stuffing or mashed potatoes and gravy. We make sure that the meal is a traditional Thanksgiving.”
When Jamie Lee Sprague-Ballou first came out as transgender to her parents, it took a couple years for their relationship to realign. The holiday season came around briskly ...
Reno’s motels were built in the 1950s and ’60s as rest stops for Lincoln Highway travelers. The properties have become a fallback for people who can't find other housing ...
Baby's Bounty was founded in 2008 to provide items like cribs, car seats, bottles, blankets and clothing to parents who completed a class on caring for newborns. They launched the diaper bank last year in ...
When Mary Vogl initially heard the news of a fiery DUI crash in Las Vegas killing a young woman and her dog, she immediately thought of the “poor family that lost their girl.” The following day, her manager at Target delivered the horrific news.
The hate speech directed at Nevada first lady Kathy Sisolak happened a few months ago and she’s still hurt. Sisolak detailed when a Nye County official made racial remarks about her, alleging that her family in China was making money from the COVID-19 pandemic and …
Steph Littlebird’s work revolves around the Indigenous artist’s identities — spiritual, cultural and gender. Littlebird, who is the First Friday featured artist for November, identifies as two-spirit, a masculine and feminine identity and a label used by Indigenous people to reference their gender, sexual or spiritual identities …
“The Shaq Courts” at Doolittle also include an art installation of a life-sized pair of the NBA legend’s shoes. Shaquille O’Neal, a Las Vegas resident, takes pride in being an active part of his adopted hometown, showing up last weekend at the court’s groundbreaking and testing …
Parents who drop off or pick up their children at school might think the traffic is unusually hectic. Drivers are parking on sidewalks, crosswalks, in residential driveways, roundabouts and turn lanes.
Officer Fernando Flores always knew he was destined for a career in law enforcement. He has a special desire to help the valley’s Spanish-speaking community ...
Before the Clark County Commission declared Oct. 5 “Elizabeth Groesbeck Day,” the third-year UNLV medical student was quick to recognize others who stepped up to help a hit-and-run crash victim whose life she’s credited with helping save this summer.
Marimar Rivera and Johann Rucker strolled along the twisting dirt path of the Neon Museum’s Boneyard, faces illuminated by glowing signs of Las Vegas past. Speaking in Spanish, they outlined the signs’ history, construction and preservation.
