City and tourism officials are looking for ideas for redoing Cashman Center — in fact, the site could be completely reworked and ultimately might not even have a baseball stadium.
CARSON CITY — Even though she does not have a primary opponent, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, has raised more than $300,000 in campaign contributions and has begun to give money to many other Democratic legislative candidates.
CARSON CITY — The four candidates running for a vacant seat on the Nevada Supreme Court are spending big bucks, much of it their own, on the race.
The First Amendment gives a Las Vegas police detective the right to wear a beard for religious reasons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, but a jury must decide whether he has the right to wear a yarmulke on the job.
The Meridian Luxury Suites condo development has taken another step toward restarting its hotel operation, which was shut down by the county last month. The Clark County Planning Commission approved a tentative map of the 671-unit site, but some owners say final approval of a conversion into a condo resort might not come in time to save them from foreclosure.
State Sen. Dina Titus, the Democrat hoping to unseat Rep. Jon Porter in the 3rd Congressional District, kept up an aggressive fundraising pace last month but still has less than half of Porter’s campaign war chest, according to campaign finance disclosures filed last week with the Federal Election Commission.
A story in Wednesday’s Review-Journal incorrectly stated that the man who died in an accident Sunday on state Route 160 at El Capitan Way was at fault in the accident. Also, his name was misspelled. Nelsen Earl Bernardo, 29, was driving a white pickup when the driver of a red Toyota Corolla pulled in front of him.
The couple accused of killing a 17-year-old runaway and burying her body in the desert appeared Wednesday in District Court, where a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 10.
Several construction workers recently were observed drinking alcohol at nearby bars before they entered the CityCenter job site, a violation of company rules set by the general contractor.
CARSON CITY — The closure of the Nevada State Prison will probably be on the table for the Legislature next year if the Department of Corrections must ultimately cut 14 percent of its 2009-11 budget, a report to the Board of Prison Commissioners states.
When Edward “Tiger” Monsour’s family left him in the care of a Las Vegas nursing home in 2005 to recover from a fall, they thought he would rehabilitate, return home and re-establish himself as the family’s patriarch.
WASHINGTON — The two Republican House members from Nevada plan to return to the Capitol this week to take part in an ongoing GOP tactic to protest Democrats’ handling of energy legislation.
Federal authorities are calling it the largest hacking and identity theft case yet. But this week’s indictments of 11 people accused of plundering millions of payment card numbers might not seriously dent the underworld where such crimes occur.
Most people remember Bob Maheu and think of his weird 15-year relationship with the even weirder Howard Hughes, because the two never met in person, yet Maheu morphed into Hughes’ alter ego before they parted ways. In his 1992 book “Next to Hughes,” Maheu thanked Hughes “who taught me so much about life through his own unhappiness.”
It’s easy to lose sight of the national presidential election when you’re here in Nevada.
Nevadans nervous about the budget-balancing intentions of the 2009 Legislature should pay close attention to their western neighbor.
It’s not only the new neutral, designers have applied serious character to navy for the upcoming season. Now it brings all the basic appeal of a neutral and enough sizzle to qualify as an “It” color.
Change is good, but sometimes it isn’t necessary. When you have a hairstyle that works so well you can’t imagine changing it, you’ve established your signature cut. It’s the haircut you sport for several years, not because of a rut, but because you’ve struck gold.
He’s a former champion bodybuilder with an imposing on-camera presence and an accent that testifies to his European roots.
On Saturday, UB40 performs in Las Vegas for the first time without the man who sang “Red Red Wine.”
Show and tell time, kids! Instructables.com is not just for people who can’t resist tinkering with everything they can get their hands on (“We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … faster …”). It has a little bit of everything for everyone. You can learn how to crochet a carry-all from recycled plastic shopping bags; how to count cards; how to make beef jerky; and even how to make an LED flashlight with an Altoids tin. It’s all goofy, yet potentially useful stuff.