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Nevada Southern Railway Museum Carson City - The state's seven museums typically get a third of their annual visitation from JulyA 4 through Labor Day.

Thu, May 28, 2009 A man who died after his sport utility vehicle rolled over into a Southern Nevada river has been identified by the Clark County Coroner's Office.

Thu, May 6, 1999 The North Las Vegas City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution in support of renaming the North Las Vegas Airport the Gus Sabo Airfield in honor of the 51-year-old airport manager who was killed when his experimental plane crashed March 7 while on a return trip from Mexico.

Gene Bennett Paul Eugene 'Gene' Bennett, 81 years old, passed away Saturday, April 11, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

A request to have Virgin Valley Water District connection fees waived for the proposed Mesquite Veterans Center will have to wait another two weeks for a water board decision.

LAS VEGAS -- The annual Clark County Fair and Rodeo celebrates its 22nd year this week in the town of Logandale.

Virgin Valley Water District's Ordinance 2 fee, one of the impact fees the district collects from new development, has been rolled back to $3,300. The action came Tuesday, nearly two months after the water district board voted on Jan.

FERNLEY--Members of Calvary Chapel Fernley are throwing a huge birthday party for Maxine Waymire, who will turn 100 years old, and thus on Sunday church members will celebrate her big day at 11:30 a.m. at ...

Fri, Feb 27, 2009 Legislature 2009 coverage - Architects are suffering with the rest of the construction industry as Nevadaa s real estate market continues to decline.

Sun, Feb 22, 1998 William Job Leavitt, Jr., a key figure in the Las Vegas anthrax scare, was released from jail Saturday night on his own recognizance.

Local couple rescued from blizzard during snow machine outing Victoria Wendt said today she is so grateful to be back in the Valley.

Thu, Feb 12, 2009 Sun Blogs Culture Imagine the delight that rippled through the art community when European art collectors Pujo and Anita Zabludowicz proposed building a museum of contemporary art in the Las ...

More than 50 law enforcement agency members, search and rescue volunteers and private citizens searched for nearly two days to find a couple missing on Cedar Mountain since Sunday.

The missing couple lost on Cedar Mountain since Sunday were located and are "alert, conscious and mobile," said a spokesperson for the Iron County Sheriff's office at about 5 p.m. The Wendts from Overton, Nev.

Cause of blaze not determined, but foul play not suspected By MAGGIE LILLIS and HENRY BREAN LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL ON THE WEB Chapel fire video and slide show Firefighters mop up at the scene of a fire ...

DID YOU KNOW? Predating the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the bald eagle was declared an endangered species in 1967 for much of the United States except Alaska, where about half the world's bald eagles live.

Dawn. Mount Eerie . The saint of all albums for 2008, Dawn is humble, beautiful, insightful, simple, honest, pure and good; sort of makes me want to cry.

Richard Moreno, author of 'Backyard Traveler' and former Northern Nevada resident, began his latest book as a list of oddities and curiosities in Nevada.

Swirling 1,500ft into Utah's Great Salt Lake, Spiral Jetty is one of the world's unnatural wonders.