Aware that recent experience shows more people are infected, and even die, during the second year a state deals with the West Nile virus, Clark County officials want to shift their second-year fight against the illness to an agency with greater enforcement authority.
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Most back more education funds
Nevadans are still saying they want it. In a recent poll commissioned by the Review-Journal and reviewjournal.
Voters support limiting state spending
A planned ballot initiative to limit state spending has considerable support throughout the state, according to a new poll.
Mesquite, other river towns look out for flooding
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Sevier River ran over its banks Wednesday and flooded farmers' fields in central Utah as warming temperatures melted mountain snowpacks.
Voters skeptical of cuts
Voters don't always have the same priorities as elected officials -- especially when it comes to proposals to reduce state spending.
Growth key issue in Mesquite
A half-dozen candidates who all generally like each other are competing for three at-large City Council seats in Mesquite.
Massive shopping center OK'd
A massive shopping center and entertainment complex will soon blanket the vast desert land just north of Fry's Electronics on South Las Vegas Boulevard.
Bill to limit access to records advances
CARSON CITY -- A Senate panel voted Wednesday for a bill to keep confidential information on Nevada police officers and judges that is in county assessor records.
RAPID TRANSIT: Sahara-downtown route in works
A fast bus could fill in for a balky monorail on a route to downtown Las Vegas, Regional Transportation Commission officials said Thursday.
Budget slice to pay for banking water
The push to bank water for the future will cost the Southern Nevada Water Authority $159 million over the next year.
VALLEY SUPPLY: Water panel OKs third lake intake
The Southern Nevada Water Authority Board has approved a new intake pipe to pull water from deep in Lake Mead, a move that will add $650 million to a list of proposed water projects already expected to top $3 billion over the next decade.
RTC gives ramp meters high marks
Ramp meters on two southbound U.S. Highway 95 onramps are slowing down commuters on those ramps, but drivers are more than making up the lost time once they get on the highway, Regional Transportation Commission officials said Thursday.
Woman sues journalist over column
Local journalist George Knapp and a doctor have been sued by a woman who was compared to a pumpkin in a column Knapp wrote for a weekly newspaper.
Virus strategy may change
Aware that recent experience shows more people are infected, and even die, during the second year a state deals with the West Nile virus, Clark County officials want to shift their second-year fight against the illness to an agency with greater enforcement authority.
Ex-congressman quits work involving state military sites
WASHINGTON -- Former Nevada Congressman James Bilbray recused himself Thursday from "substantial work" involving military installations in the state while serving on an independent base-closing commission.
State Senate passes health subsidy bill
CARSON CITY -- A bill to end a health insurance subsidy for future state and local government employees when they retire passed the Senate on a party-line vote Thursday but faces rough sailing in the Assembly.
Assembly panel OKs bill on children in cars
CARSON CITY -- A proposal to punish people who leave children unattended in cars won approval Thursday in the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Court rejects ethics case
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a state Ethics Commission request that it overturn a lower court decision involving Las Vegas City Councilman Michael Mack.
Senate panel kills Assembly-backed tax holiday bill
CARSON CITY -- The Senate Taxation Committee has killed a bill by Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson, to hold partial sales tax holidays this Aug.
JOHN L. SMITH: Who will pony up for Helldorado parade? It might be you
Enjoy the Helldorado parade? In future years, you'll be asked to help pay for it. Thousands of Las Vegans converged on downtown Saturday for a return of the Helldorado parade, which was a tradition in Southern Nevada before getting the boot a few years ago.
Lawyer seeking judgeship shrugs off past as stripper
With the start of early voting two days away, a candidate for Henderson municipal judge found herself answering questions Thursday about a job she held 14 years ago to pay her way through college.
Magistrate judge post filled
Las Vegas attorney George Foley Jr. has been chosen to fill the newly created U.S. magistrate judge position in Nevada.
SLAUGHTER OF 41: House votes to halt horse sales
WASHINGTON -- House lawmakers voted Thursday to end federal wild horse sales and brushed aside promises of new protections the government put in place this week to prevent animals from being resold for slaughter.
Panel rejects initiative changes
The Senate Legislative Operations and Elections Committee voted Thursday to do away with a proposal to increase the number of signatures needed to qualify an initiative petition for the ballot.
Campaign sign warfare becomes police matter
North Las Vegas Mayor Michael Montandon on Thursday filed a criminal complaint that alleged his political opponent, Andres Ramirez, stole Montandon campaign signs and replaced them with Ramirez signs.
Raggio gives up on keeping political 'truth squad' alive
CARSON CITY -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio signaled defeat Thursday in his effort to require the Ethics Commission to continue acting as a "truth squad" on political campaigns.
Reid draws spotlight at center of filibuster fight
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid's place at the center of a landmark Senate fight over federal judges and filibuster rights was marked Thursday by the frantic clicks of camera shutters most places he moved in public.
NORM: Critic echoes dark view of 'Le Reve'
Could Steve Wynn's $40 million aquatic gamble "Le Reve" become Le Belly Flop? Critics continue to suggest it may be doomed to stinker status.
In Brief
BISHOP GORMAN CAMPUS Construction begins on new high school The groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the new Bishop Gorman High School took place Thursday.
Malone on tape at trial
SAN DIEGO -- Prosecutors played a recording Thursday of a conversation between San Diego City Councilman Ralph Inzunza and Las Vegas lobbyist Lance Malone in which they discuss strategies for the next phase of a plan to repeal a rule that bans touching between strippers and strip-club patrons in San Diego.
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATION
The name of an organization that honored "The World's Greatest Magic Show" was misidentified in Mike Weatherford's Thursday column.
