Companies with leases to develop solar facilities in Eldorado Valley are having trouble selling their power.
A plane crash Sunday afternoon west of the city’s Municipal Airport took the lives of two off-duty Nevada Army National Guardsmen.
In our profession there is a word that makes us cringe, “routine.” We find it all the time, in writings, interviews, the media, even sometimes in our own circles.
It’s time again for the annual Fourth of July celebration. Thousands of people flock to Boulder City every year to celebrate the independence of our great nation. With the parade, park festivities and evening fireworks show, the events continue from early morning until late at night. Many people will indulge in family barbecues and picnics, boating on the lake and generally enjoying themselves.
The National Park Service and other agencies are still searching for a Chicago man who went missing June 20 in Boulder Basin at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. However, the body of a Las Vegas man was found Monday nearly 24 hours after he went missing in the water in a separate incident near Callville Bay.
Michale Wilborn stands next to the spectator’s bleachers at Boulder City’s BMX Veterans Memorial Park on Sunday. An hour before the annual Olympic Day is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m., Wilborn looks at the track that is about to be filled with BMX riders of all ages as she contemplates what else must be done before the event begins.
“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.” — Milan Kundera (born 1929) Czech writer of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
A couple of years ago one of my colleagues wrote a piece about how some families establish a “family night” at which parents and children have the evening meal together.
A smoking ban ordinance that would prohibit lighting up in Boulder City’s “enclosed spaces” businesses was reintroduced at Tuesday’s City Council meeting with little discussion.
Democrats love tax hikes because they mean more money for government to do more things. Conservatives loathe tax hikes because they mean more money for government to do more things.
On June 10, Steve Halteman wrote in his blog, “There is ice in my water bottle and fighter jets overhead.”
Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, was given a bad deal during the building of the Hoover Dam bypass bridge, according to environmental experts.
The Boulder City Connie Mack 16-under baseball team has no 16, but it has plenty of under.
John Balistere has been able to negotiate a price break for an upcoming national basketball academy for players from Boulder City.
The Boulder City-Henderson Heatwave swim club will compete in its first major meet of the summer today through Sunday in the June Age Group Invite Long Course Championship in Irvine, Calif.
The Henderson Havoc, a 10-under all-star softball team, has qualified for age-group nationals after its second-place finish June 16 in the American Softball Association’s Nevada State Tournament at Majestic Park in Las Vegas.
“Vegas,” the television show based loosely on Ralph Lamb’s life, had just been canceled, but the former Clark County sheriff wasn’t losing any sleep over it.
Boulder City has been named one of the country’s Top 10 “Best Towns for Families” in the August issue of Family Circle magazine. This comes as no surprise to some of the people who live here.
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