Topic: Las Vegas
If you can be at Grand Canyon South Rim from Las Vegas in 45 minutes, why would you be satisfied a 5.5 hour tour bus ride?Papillon offers the flight daily for under $200 per person on its website (nearly 40 percent off ...
Power poles would line the area, home to massive fossil bedsPower lines connecting Northern and Southern Nevada are needed as dozens of green energy plants are being planned or built from the Amargosa Valley to Carson City.But theres a problem. NV Energy ...
Some wonder whether federal hands are equipped to care for Gold ButteThe Clark County Commission could decide today whether to support federal efforts to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of Nevada wilderness.ItÕs a proposal that has proponents jubilant over the possibility ...
Dennis Barrie has overseen the SmithsonianÕs Archives of American Art, served as director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and helped create the International Spy Museum in Washington. Now heÕs overseeing the creative direction of the mob museum. ...
Yes, Celine Dion is taking another crack at the Colosseum she punches in on March 15, 2011 and shell probably bring down her own box-office records in doing so.In fact, if you look at dollar volume, audience numbers and international travel appeal, ...
Specter of closing state parks illuminates tough choices facing lawmakers Nevadas parks and recreation areas would receive a 10 percent budget cut like other state services under Gov. Jim Gibbons plan to close the shortfall of nearly $900 million.Senate Majority Leader Steven ...
Cost-cutting move could devastate rural areas, critics say The Nevada Legislature is thinking of closing state parks as it considers how to patch an estimated $900 million budget gap, a move that would save a few million dollars while killing the economies ...
Brilliant red sandstone in Valley of Fire makes spectacular but easy side trip from Las Vegas You've done your time in Las Vegas."I tell people coming through here for the first time to just let your imagination run wild," said Dennis Williams ...
Although much of the area is watched by the BLM and a permit is required to enter the area, preservationists want Congress to act soon to designate it a national monument to protect undiscovered fossils and rare plants such as the bear ...
UNLVs College of Fine Arts, with a growing art collection of its own, is in talks with the financially beleaguered and homeless Las Vegas Art Museum about placing the museums permanent collection on campus.A commissioned mural by Las Vegas artist and former ...
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