All accounted for in Grand Canyon

PHOENIX — Searchers have found a handful of hikers who were considered missing after flooding struck a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.

Energy summit targets costs

Clean energy will reduce greenhouse gases, protect the environment, create jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. But the federal government needs to lead the way.

IN BRIEF

durango drive and peace way

County to open Beltway entrance

Responding to the ire of motorists and taxpayers, the Clark County Commission on Tuesday ordered the Lake Mead Boulevard interchange with the Las Vegas Beltway to be opened.

Commissioners, Republic Services revisit landfill dispute

Clark County commissioners and Republic Services on Tuesday failed to make progress as they analyzed why $36 million isn’t enough to fix the troubled Sunrise landfill, and why some ratepayers might have to pitch in an additional $29 million for the work.

Opening the bridge

The Clark County Commission decided Tuesday to open the nearly completed, $12.4 million Lake Mead Boulevard interchange at the Las Vegas Beltway, rather than leave it closed for two years to appease a few vocal residents who’d rather see the bridge torn down.

Another drug raid gone bad

Cops in Prince George’s County, Md., have a proud tradition to maintain. In May, a former county officer was sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture delivery men at his home last year, one of them fatally. (He claims they attacked him.)

RESTAURANT REPORT

Asia Buffet, 3049 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 34 demerits Aug. 5. Violations included open bags of bulk food in dry storage area. GRADE: C

On-Campus Chow

Food and gasoline prices are up, the dollar and the stock market are down, and most of us are trying to save money anywhere we can. When it comes to kids’ lunches, the best way to do that may be to have your child buy his or her lunch at school.

Readers have scoop on apple pie

The Olympics have many of us feeling pretty patriotic these days, so it’s only appropriate that we offer reader suggestions for David Simms, who’s looking for apple pie — specifically, apple pie “that you don’t need a hammer and chisel to cut through.”

Sebeka Shiraz 2006

Wine: Sebeka Shiraz 2006

Local home sales on comeback trail

Home sales are making a comeback in Las Vegas and inventory has been reduced to about an eight-month supply, but prices continue their free fall from a year ago, a strong signal that the housing market has yet to enter recovery.

Officials trim airport plans

In a nod to the shabby economics of the airline industry, officials at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas will trim about $360 million from a $3.7 billion capital improvement plan.

INSIDE BUSINESS

Cafe Rio opens new restaurant on Decatur

IN BRIEF

Stock buyback OK’d for Vestin investment trust

Tropicana, Culinary union to resume talks

Tropicana Entertainment’s top executive promised there will be “a very material change in direction” when negotiators sit down with Culinary union officials today.

Booze photos spark firings

Two more union workers have been fired from CityCenter after being identified in photographs as drinking alcohol and entering the construction site, the project’s general contractor said Tuesday.

SAY WHAT?

TOO CONFUSING

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