A local Elvis fan club isn’t feeling a whole lot of love from the Elvis Presley Estate.
A single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon into the side of Mount Charleston, killing the four people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced the evacuation of some homes in the mountain community.
CARSON CITY — Before legislators fled late Friday following a relatively peaceful and brief special session, the stage had been set for a battle between Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley and Gov. Jim Gibbons when they return in February.
The Nevada Legislature approved $275 million in budget cuts Friday in a rare special session to balance the budget for the fiscal year that starts Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — The Senate completed action last week on a bill that continues funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while approving new spending for veterans education, unemployment assistance and flood relief.
Construction industry veterans and local politicians held a roundtable discussion Saturday on worker and job site safety in the wake of a string of construction deaths around the valley during the past two years.
Prominent Las Vegas psychiatrist Robert L. Horne was the target of two lawsuits in four years, and both cases were sealed from public view by the same judge, according to newly unveiled court records.
Las Vegas house prices are in freefall, dropping more sharply than in any other large U.S. city.
Following Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on guns, sundry outraged mayors were fuming because the justices, “for the first time,” discovered in the Constitution an individual right to bear arms, placing in danger all their precious (though thoroughly counterproductive) local victim disarmament edicts.
There’s this lawyer in Washington who pretty much runs everything in that incestuous little company town where they do public service for personal profit. His name is Robert Barnett.
This Friday we celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with fireworks and picnics.
After an untold number of electoral, political and legal challenges spanning two decades, the fate of term limits in Nevada comes down to this ridiculous scenario: The state Supreme Court will decide next month whether the constitutional amendment it upheld and forwarded to voters 12 years ago is constitutional.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie says coordinating and supervising the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department — with divisions and rented offices scattered in 50 locations across the valley — was already inefficient, time-consuming and expensive when gasoline was a $1 a gallon.
CARSON CITY — In 12 hours Friday we got a daunting glimpse into the future of the state’s health.
People flock to the Sedona area for many reasons, most notably the jaw-dropping red rock scenery. Others are on a spiritual quest, crouching at vortexes to listen to the earth hum. Or they come for art galleries or world-class spas. Yet some, like Amanda Kuller, have a simpler agenda. They come to get wet.
Summer visitors heading to Lake Tahoe for freshwater sport needn’t go inside when night falls. Instead, they can linger on the warm beaches of Sand Harbor State Park for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, July 10-Aug. 17. Now in its 36th season, it’s the locals’ favorite summer festival, offering drama under the pink and purple skies of dying day.
Elko, in northeastern Nevada, is less than a day’s drive from Las Vegas, but seems light years distant in ambience and attitude. This small city is the heart of a land of verdant ranches lying at the western base of the Ruby Mountains, wettest of Nevada’s ranges. It is a region rich in history and local culture, sprawling over a stunning landscape unlike anything found in the majority of the state.
Saturday and July 6, the Hopi Festival of the Arts in Flagstaff, Ariz., will again immerse visitors in the artistry and language of this ancient people. More than 60 artists from the 12 Hopi villages will present art forms they have created in the show’s 75th session.
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has weekly support groups at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at its clinic, 1590 W. Sunset Road, and at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, 6161 W. Charleston Blvd., Building 1 (310-5764).
In early July, high-country wildflowers burst into full bloom, and Cedar Breaks National Monument burst with pride expressed in its annual wildflower festival, Thursday-July 20.
Williams, Ariz., thrives on tourism. The small Northern Arizona town enlarges on its frontier beginnings and its enviable location close to scenic and recreational attractions. It sits along Interstate 40, Historic Route 66 and Highway 64, a major access route to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Railroad connections include Amtrak’s Southwest Chief along the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe tracks and the historic Grand Canyon Railway, which begins its daily scenic trip to the South Rim from the restored depot in Williams.
Downtown Las Vegas’ young art district seems to be continually acquiring new galleries. But one of the newest is fundamentally different from the rest.
By now, you may have read too much about the genius of George Carlin and why we will miss him.