WASHINGTON — White House officials on Tuesday threatened to have President Bush veto a giant defense bill in part because it could reduce spending for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
VIRGINIA CITY — An initiative petition seeking to implement a California-style property tax cap in Nevada was found invalid for the November ballot Tuesday by a judge.
This week readers want to know what is up with all that construction on Elkhorn Road west of Jones Boulevard; whether Henderson officials are ever going to turn on the traffic light near Coronado High School; and whether we are all supposed to get new identification cards from the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.
A story in Tuesday’s Review-Journal about the Nevada Cancer Institute misstated the Senate district where the facility is located. It is in Republican Dennis Nolan’s Senate district.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is scheduled to campaign in Carson City on Saturday, the first visit to Nevada by John McCain’s surprise running mate pick.
A voice from the past was on the telephone, offering a hot entertainment tip.
Rachel Wikene drives her daughter to a magnet school far from home. The daily commute might seem like an inconvenience, but Wikene was grateful that her child does not walk to school after learning that a student was kidnapped Monday outside of Mackey Elementary School.
WASHINGTON — The feud between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. John McCain heated up on Tuesday, with Reid charging the Republican presidential nominee “has done nothing” to change the country in the past eight years.
Defense attorney Theodore Cohen ambled across the courtroom like an aging barnyard rooster, his right hand cupped behind his ear in an attempt to improve his hearing.
CARSON CITY — The longtime head of the agency leading Nevada’s fight against federal plans for a high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain was criticized Tuesday by lawmakers for giving himself and other agency staffers unauthorized pay increases of up to 16 percent.
• It’s estimated that the loot O.J. Simpson and his accomplices are accused of stealing was worth about $100,000.
It may seem obvious, but District Judge Jackie Glass on Monday gave an instruction to attorneys in the armed robbery and kidnapping trial of Hall of Fame running back O.J. Simpson — now getting underway in her downtown Las Vegas courtroom — that should be taken to heart by all Las Vegans, especially any who end up on this jury.
The biggest threat to Nevada’s public education, law enforcement and welfare systems is not the anemic economy, a purportedly unstable tax base or any ballot question that seeks to limit the government’s ability to increase tax collections. It is the state’s dangerously unstable and fundamentally unfair public employee pension plan that will one day collapse the foundations of Nevada governments if lawmakers don’t institute wholesale reforms.
No barbecue is complete without baked beans, and with our nearly year-round barbecue season in the valley, it’s fortunate there’s a ready source of Heinz Vegetarian Baked Beans for Sandra Gersh.
As the name indicates — and the sports memorabilia, 20 beers on tap and 36 plasma flat-screen TVs confirm — Indigo Joe’s Sports Pub & Restaurant is a sports bar.
The 5 Browns, a quintet of sibling pianists from Utah, breezed through classical and more contemporary works Monday in the opening concert of the Charles Vanda Master Series at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
ARA Pizza and Pasta Bistro, Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Road, received 13 demerits Aug. 25. Violations included employee observed not following proper hand-washing procedures. GRADE: B
A recent stock offering by Shuffle Master prompted Wall Street to sing the gaming equipment provider’s praises.
Operators of the Las Vegas Monorail are looking forward to an extension to McCarran International Airport even as the rail system’s debt rating points toward default.
A new report says the Silver State could gain 15,000 jobs through investment in renewable energy.
Las Vegas snapped its seven-month streak of increasing home sales in August, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
Western Alliance Bancorporation, the Las Vegas-based holding company for Bank of Nevada, on Tuesday said it expects to take a noncash charge of $15 million to $20 million for preferred stock and preferred debt holdings, including some at Freddie Mac, which the government seized Sunday.
