On Oct. 30, 1936, four score years ago, Boulder City was host to a special visitor, a man who would be pope.
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Sen. Dean Heller’s regional representative, Bradley Sensibaugh, will visit Boulder City from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday to help area residents with any issues they are having with federal government agencies.
Metropolitan Police Department of Las Vegas is seeking the public’s help to find a person of interest in the death of 61-year-old Kathleen Ploutz of Las Vegas, whose body was found near the special events beach at Boulder Basin in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on July 18.
The Nevada Department of Transportation will be making flood-related slope and guardrail repairs to State Route 172 in Boulder City from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday.
Around 80 volunteers will pick up trash along 3 miles of the lower Colorado River along the Black Canyon National Water Trail by canoe, kayak, foot and diving between 9 a.m. and noon Saturday.
There’s so much to see and do at the annual Spring Jamboree presented by the Chamber of Commerce in Bicentennial Park. One of them is indulging in your favorite foods.
Looking for something to do today? Head over to Bicentennial Park for the Chamber of Commerce’s Spring Jamboree.
The Boulder City Review has learned that Steve DesChamps, general manger of Nevada Restaurant Services, is no longer with the company. DesChamps oversaw renovations of the newly remodeled Hoover Dam Lodge, which reopened April 3.
The inaugural First Responders Bash car and bike show will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Chilly Jilly’z, 1680 Nevada Highway. The show, a benefit for American service heroes, is being presented by the Nevada chapter of 2 Million Bikers to DC.
A body has been recovered in Placer Cove on Lake Mohave where a teen went missing Wednesday.
National Park Service rangers are searching for a teenage boy who was last seen trying to help another swimmer at Lake Mohave near Placer Cove.
A man was shot and killed by Boulder City Police near Fifth Street and Avenue A around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
A man who police said robbed a Boulder City bank March 5 was wanted in connection of a previous robbery in New Hampshire.
SafeWise, a community-focused security organization, has named Boulder City the safest city in Nevada.
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After an almost four-year saga, the part of Boulder City code that allowed dog owners to have their dogs off-leash in public as long as they were under verbal control practically (though not officially) goes away as of Dec. 4.
Getting the old Bullock Field Navy Hangar onto the National Registry of Historic Places has been on the radar of the Boulder City Historic Preservation Commission for about a year and a half and earlier this month, the city council agreed.
Earlier this year, the city council voted to reverse a planning commission decision. It was not of note because no one in the ranks of city staff could remember such a reversal ever having happened in the time they worked for the city.
You know that Progressive Insurance commercial that humorously depicts a “Parent-Life Coach” advising young homeowners on how to avoid turning into their parents? When the coach corrects homeowners to not chime in on strangers’ conversations, it made me realize, I’ve totally become my mother. (But I’m OK with it, because my mom was awesome.)
