Today's News

Republicans and Democrats throughout the state had the opportunity to go to the polls on Tuesday and vote for the candidates of their choice.

Wagon Mound High School, the place from which our youngest son, Ben, graduated, has always been proud of its basketball, whose season generally  runs from Aug. 1 through July 31.

It was the school my dad attended around the turn of the last century. “We didn’t have a fancy name for our team,” he said, when asked if he played for the Trojans.

Some of the premier Las Vegas-area athletes from the Class of 2014 will be representing their schools in the new-look North-South All-Star Games this coming weekend.

One of the nation’s largest pizza chains, Little Caesars, wants to set up shop in Las Vegas, and the City Council voted last week to eliminate one of the zoning hurdles it had been facing.

Little Caesars wants to open a store at the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Airway Road, in the vacant lot  between Shoes ‘N Boots and Walgreens. When the property, which is owned by Carlos Lopez, was rezoned in 2007, the city imposed the condition that a 2 foot wall be built along the southerly property line to eliminate any traffic on Airway.