With price tags ranging from hundreds of millions of dollars to upwards of $2 billion, the costs of building any of several proposed stadium projects in the Las Vegas Valley will be staggering. But even the high sticker prices aren’t likely to account for all the costs of building a such a facility, said Daniel Rascher, president of the consulting firm SportsEconomics.
An Olympic-class sprinter could cover 300 meters — about the length of three football fields — in just over 30 seconds. Luckily for Debra Toney, her participation in the London 2012 Olympic Games won’t require her to run nearly that fast.
In the wake of an apartment fire that displaced about 50 people and left three badly burned, the Clark County Fire Department is asking valley residents to turn in any of their unused fireworks for safe disposal.
Two adults were displaced and a dog was killed in a fire this morning at an apartment in the central valley, the Clark County Fire Department said. The fire was reported at 7:37 a.m. at a two-story apartment complex at 2670 Van Patten St., near Sahara Avenue and Paradise Road.
Henderson has tapped a 20-year police department veteran to replace former Chief Jutta Chambers, who retired earlier this year under fire. Deputy Chief Patrick Moers, who joined the Henderson Police Department as a patrol officer in 1991, was recommended for the top job by City Manager Jacob Snow during the City Council’s Tuesday meeting.
During a lifetime that took her from the small towns of Idaho to the casinos of Reno and Las Vegas, and eventually to movie sets in Hollywood, Verna Harrah’s magnetic personality and willingness to lend a hand no matter the situation helped her positively impact the lives of countless people, her friends say.
For nine minutes Wednesday evening, the sky above Texas Station in Las Vegas will be lit up in a spectrum of vivid reds, whites and blues as hundreds of shells are fired from the roof of a nearby parking garage.
On a mild summer’s morning in the foothills of the Spring Mountains, the air sits silent and still over the A-frame cabins that make up Potosi Pines Camp. The quiet is broken only intermittently by the sound of shots from a nearby Boy Scouts gun range. Camp volunteer Julie Doyle checks her watch, slowly walks over to a large silver bell attached to the camp’s mess hall, and with a swift motion sets it ringing, sending a loud clang reverberating through the campground.
Even though the Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday, millions of Americans are expected to hit the road next week to celebrate the holiday, with many of them heading to Las Vegas. About 312,000 visitors are expected in Las Vegas the weekend after Independence Day, said Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority spokesman Jeremy Handel, a half percent increase compared to a year ago. All those visitors will have a nongaming economic impact of about $197.5 million, he said.
As a Virgin Atlantic flight taxied up to Terminal 3 at McCarran Airport, the pilot came over the loudspeaker to make an announcement. “He said not to worry about the fire engines,” said Daniel Roberts, who was flying into Las Vegas from London. The water fountain arch created by the pair of fire trucks on the tarmac was the first of many surprises for passengers aboard the flight, which was the first to arrive at the brand-new, $2.4 billion Terminal 3, which officially opened Wednesday.
Two weeks after an accident 600 feet below Lake Mead left one worker dead, the Nevada Occupational Health and Safety Administration has given the go-ahead to resume tunneling activities for the construction of a third water intake, the Southern Nevada Water Authority said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
Tips from residents helped North Las Vegas Police identify a suspect in a bank robbery and attempted bank robbery last week and make an arrest, police announced Tuesday. Daniel Cordova, 24, North Las Vegas, was booked into the North Las Vegas Detention Center on Saturday and faces one count of robbery and attempted robbery and two counts of burglary participation.
A $1.75 million federal grant awarded Monday to the North Las Vegas Police Department will help keep more than a dozen police officers on the street in the cash-strapped city.
Both southbound lanes of Interstate 15 near the Nevada-California state line have reopened, nearly 6 1/2 hours after a tractor-trailer overturned and spilled a hazardous load early this morning, officials say.
A Las Vegas man suspected in two business robberies in which attempts were made to pry open safes with a crowbar has been arrested, Henderson Police said Thursday.
The federal government on Thursday approved a massive 350-megawatt solar energy project to be built on land in Clark County belonging to the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians Tribe. It would be the first utility-scale solar project on tribal lands.
Five families were displaced Wednesday evening after a fire burned their apartment complex in the northeast valley, the Clark County Fire Department said.
The Clark County District Attorney’s Office has cleared Metro Police of wrongdoing in three April 2011 officer-involved shootings. The announcement came after a review of the cases by the District Attorney’s Office.
The number of auto thefts in the Las Vegas Valley continues to drop after peaking in 2006, when the area led the country, according to new statistics released Tuesday by the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Las Vegas checked in at No. 19 on the agency’s list.
All Lissette Waugh and Wendy Robin wanted to do was teach the art of makeup application in the Las Vegas area. But the state of Nevada said they couldn't do so without first obtaining cosmetology licenses or having their businesses licensed as cosmetology schools, even though Waugh and Robin say their craft has nothing to do with cosmetology.
A fire that did an estimated $760,000 damage to a Henderson condominium complex on Monday was caused by carelessly discarded smoking material, a preliminary Henderson Fire Department investigation found.
Northbound Boulder Highway has been shut down at Tropicana Avenue after an accident involving a car and a bicycle, Metro Police said. The accident occurred around 2:45 p.m. Monday near Tropicana Avenue and Boulder Highway said, Officer Marcus Martin, a police spokesman.
Metro Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected in a series of armed robberies in the past month in the southwest valley. The man is suspected in five robberies at area businesses. According to police, in each instance, the man enters the business, points a gun at the employees and demands money from the register. He then forces the employees to lie on the ground as he flees on foot, police said.
The Henderson man who died Saturday after his motorcycle collided with a truck has been identified by the Clark County Coroner’s Office as 21-year-old David Doss.
The man who died Saturday from injuries he suffered earlier in the week after being hit by a car while leaving the Electric Daisy Carnival has been identified by the Clark County Coroner’s Office as Florida resident Olivier Hennessy.
The death of a toddler whose body was found Friday near a houseboat at Lake Mead has been ruled a drowning by the Clark County Coroner’s Office, making it the first drowning of the year in the national recreation area.
A hot-and-windy forecast Monday prompted Clark County officials to issue an air-quality advisory and open additional cooling stations around the valley. Temperatures are expected to reach a high of 106 degrees Monday afternoon, with winds blowing out of the southwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts over 40 mph, said National Weather Service meteorologist Clay Morgan.
Three fires overnight and this morning in the Las Vegas Valley burned several residences, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage but no injuries.
Although they haven’t put any shovels in the ground yet, developers behind the $1.5 billion Union Village medical complex in Henderson are imagining global possibilities. On Friday, they met with a Chinese delegation to discuss the “integrated health village.”
A dispute between UNLV’s student government and the Rebel Yell’s Advisory Board over who has the authority to choose the student newspaper’s top editor appears to be heading toward a resolution.
Three young children were killed Friday morning in a mobile home fire in the northeast valley, according to the Clark County Fire Department. Firefighters responded around 10:20 a.m. to reports of a fire at two mobile homes at 3610 Las Vegas Blvd. North, near Lamb Boulevard.
But ethics watchdog questions effectiveness of effort
Friday, June 15, 2012
A proposed Henderson city ordinance would add to ethical standards already governing city employees and elected city officials. The ordinance, which was first presented last week, will be voted on by the city council at its Tuesday meeting.
The FBI is seeking the public’s help in identifying the “Weatherman Bandit,” a man suspected in eight valley-area bank robberies. The FBI describes him as a 50- to 60-year-old white male with gray hair. He stands between 5-feet-8 and 6-feet and weighs around 180 to 200 pounds.
Metro Police are searching for two men accused of running over a woman with their car last month during a robbery. The incident occurred around 4 p.m. May 22 at a convenience store near 4300 W. Sahara Ave.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Bryan Clay, the man accused in the April 15 sex attacks and hammer slayings of a Las Vegas mother and her daughter. Clay, 22, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 10 felony charges.
As the investigation begins into a Monday accident at a Lake Mead construction site that left one man dead, officials released new details Tuesday about what happened in the tunnel 600 feet underground.
Decreased demand has driven down the price of gasoline around the country, with Nevada seeing an average decrease of 10 cents for a gallon of fuel, according to new numbers released Tuesday by the AAA Insurance.
An industrial accident in a tunnel being drilled in solid rock beneath Lake Mead killed one worker and injured another Monday afternoon, the latest and most serious incident at the bedeviled, $800 million construction project.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Southern Nevada’s Hispanic business community was growing exponentially. A surge in the Latino population, paired with Las Vegas’ booming economy, created new demand and a new market for businesses catering to Hispanics. At the same time, a new wave of Hispanic entrepreneurs, traditionally underrepresented among the ranks of business owners, stepped in to meet the growing valley’s needs.
With a commanding flick of his wrist -- a motion perfected during a career leading some of the world’s finest symphonies -- conductor David Dworkin focused the attention of a group of 30 Henderson seniors on the tip of his baton. ...
The buzz around popular Las Vegas-based Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop seems to have reached the highest office in the nation. “I want to thank all the students for coming out here on a nice summer afternoon, some of you might (rather) be at Capriotti’s or someplace, but instead you're here with us,” President Barack Obama said to a gathered audience Thursday at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion.