After 10 years at the top, Daniel Walters, director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, has announced his retirement.
RENO — Gov. Jim Gibbons asked for and received a property tax break on a vacant rural parcel he owns in Elko County that saved Nevada’s chief executive thousands of dollars a year and left the county assessor feeling pressured.
WASHINGTON — Nevada wilderness advocates have launched a new drive for Congress to designate more federally protected land in Clark County, and are targeting Rep. Jon Porter to take a lead on what could be a controversial issue.
Lawrence Anthony has seen former Iraqi and American combatants come together to save the Baghdad Zoo. Now he’s hoping Las Vegas and South African schoolchildren will unite to save the planet.
Continuing his bid to attract Hispanic voters in Nevada, Republican presidential candidate John McCain began a new television ad Friday that pays tribute to Hispanics in the military.
CARSON CITY — An Ely State Prison inmate was pronounced dead after guards found him hanging in his single-man cell Friday, a day after a death row convict at the maximum-security prison was found dead in his cell.
Four boys whose brother died after being left in a vehicle for 17 hours will remain at the Child Haven shelter while officials research other custody options.
WASHINGTON — After holding up a mortgage rescue bill for more than two weeks, Sen. John Ensign was not in town on Friday when the Senate finally passed it.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Las Vegas man who devised a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing and possible excommunication because of the project.
CARSON CITY — William “Bill” Swackhamer, a leader in the Nevada Legislature during four decades who also served 14 years as secretary of state, died Thursday in Idaho. He was 93.
Two men were shot in the head Friday afternoon near Tropicana Avenue and Fort Apache Road after a dispute with a third man, Las Vegas police said.
RENO — A House leader has come out against a federal proposal to euthanize wild horses and asked a federal agency to delay a decision on the animals’ fate.
Just call me Princess Tenpercenter, my new Indian name taken in honor of my proud Cherokee ancestry and the 10 percent who officials claim are the only ones who have trouble with the signage at McCarran International Airport.
Just when state lawmakers and Gov. Jim Gibbons thought they could put away their red pens, the Gaming Control Board reported Thursday that casino tax collections from last month fell 22.8 percent when compared with June 2007 — the state’s worst year-over-year drop in gaming taxes in at least a decade.
The number of people who visited Las Vegas in May held strong at 3.4 million, despite a 15 percent decline in the amount of money they lost gambling in Sin City casinos.
The ongoing investigation of the Southern Nevada Mortgage Task Force resulted in guilty pleas from five defendants charged in a scheme that caused $17 million in bank losses, U.S. Attorney Gregory Brower announced Friday.
A federal court has ordered a Nevada businessman to stop using the Cohiba name on cigars and rum, and awarded the brand owner, General Cigar Co., almost $770,000 in damages plus legal costs.
Gaming stocks on Friday recovered some of their value that was lost the previous day when both Nevada and Atlantic City reported disappointing monthly gaming revenues, panicking an already jittery investment community.
Don Barden won’t need to sell Fitzgeralds to maintain a stake in a slots-only casino in Pittsburgh, but the downtown Las Vegas casino remains an asset he could use to generate cash for his struggling gambling portfolio.
The $250 million Eastside Cannery will be the first of three new hotel-casino projects opening this year while the economy is struggling with falling home values, $4 gasoline prices and a shrinking job market.
WASHINGTON — Despite a stunning setback in his effort to roll back a ban on Internet gambling, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., says the issue is not going away.
