Small businesses are always opening here. Some of them don’t succeed, while others do. One successful approach comes with an attempt to fill a niche market where the business offers a services not in competition with the bigger box retailers — even the ones in Las Vegas.
The Republican Empire, led by Lord McConnell and Darth Boehner, isn’t taking primary challenges by tea party insurgents lying down, and an all-out intra-GOP war is breaking out.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic floor leader, last week got some attention for praising his colleague Rand Paul of Kentucky, a symbol of libertarian conservatism.
WASHINGTON — A proposal to convey 285 acres near Carpenter Canyon Road and Highway 160 just outside Pahrump as a Great Basin College campus was included with a bill granting special status to thousands of acres containing prehistoric artifacts north of Las Vegas that advanced in Congress on Thursday.
AMARGOSA VALLEY — Seventeen volunteers took part in the 19th Annual Christmas Bird Count at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Dec. 15, serving as citizen scientists joining tens of thousands of volunteers as part of the National Audubon Society’s 114th Annual Christmas Bird Count.
There was not much the Trojans Coach John Toomer could do as he watched his team slowly throw away an eight-point lead in the first quarter against the Del Sol Dragons last Thursday night. This was after the Trojans made several baskets in a row to go ahead 10-2 with just 3:51 seconds in the first.
It’s the season for giving and local organizations have been taking donations since before Thanksgiving getting prepared for the Christmas holidays where less fortunate children and families benefit with meals, food baskets, toys for the children and other festivities. The last big push is this weekend.
