Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is scheduled to make her first campaign visit to Southern Nevada today.
With a group of future stars including third baseman Evan Longoria, outfielder B.J. Upton and pitcher James Shields, the Tampa Bay Rays were expected to be an improved baseball team this season.
RENO — You never would have known Melanie Chambers shot one of the best rounds of her young high school career.
After Sunday’s debacle by the Dallas Cowboys in their loss at St. Louis, one Dallas columnist is calling for Cowboys coach Wade Phillips to be fired.
UNLV football coach Mike Sanford made what seemed to be an astounding statement following Saturday’s 29-28 loss to Air Force when he said he thought the Rebels defended the option well.
Teachers union activists struck where School Board candidate Ron Taylor works Monday, waving campaign signs in support of his opponent for a Clark County School District leadership office.
A prominent eminent domain attorney entangled in an investigation into Las Vegas campaign manager Gary Gray denied Monday that she offered any money to Supreme Court candidate Kris Pickering on condition that Pickering recuse herself from certain cases.
Las Vegas police hailed the bus driver who found kidnapped 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger as a hero Monday, the same day authorities in Southern California disclosed the arrest of a woman with ties to the boy’s grandfather. 
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CARSON CITY — Democratic congressional candidate Jill Derby accused her opponent Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., of hurting residents by opposing bills to expand health care for children, to allow Medicare to negotiate for lower cost prescription drugs and to bring women pay equity.
RENO — A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows Nevada has one of the highest rates of people without health insurance.
RENO — Former President Clinton said Monday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain already has shown he cannot inspire even his own party to back proposals needed for economic recovery.
Over the past week, I’ve run into a lot of people who work with celebrities in various capacities. I asked them which stars have been the nicest and which stars have been tough to work with or for.
A 20-year-old California woman was arrested in the stabbing death of a man on Las Vegas Boulevard South on Sunday morning.
The wrangling over the state budget and Nevada’s boom-or-bust revenue picture misses something fundamental, according to a study released Monday: the fact that taxes are tied to economies, which fluctuate.
• The photographs of these candidates were inadvertently left out of the Review-Journal’s general election special section that appeared in Sunday’s newspaper. To see the special section, go to www.reviewjournal.com.
Rep. Jon Porter’s biggest contributors this election cycle have links to Southern Nevada’s best-known companies: MGM Mirage, Tiberti Construction, Station Casinos, and Harrah’s Entertainment.
A California-based bank that loaned the Crazy Horse Too gentleman’s club $5 million is seeking to lift a stay of foreclosure on the vacant Industrial Road building in an attempt to recover its money.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Monday he has asked the FBI to conclude a probe into claims that he helped land lucrative defense contracts for a wealthy friend who owns a technology firm, and looks forward to “a positive outcome” in the case.
CARSON CITY — Nevada first lady Dawn Gibbons plans to continue a tradition of handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween at the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City.
The boy is safe. That’s the great news.
For the big event with The Divine Miss M, Lady Shug created a special, one-of-a-kind outfit, starting with a Barack Obama T-shirt split down the back, then laced up like a corset with red ribbon.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s unemployment jumped again in September, hitting 7.3 percent for the highest jobless rate in nearly 23 years, a state agency reported Monday.
The Judicial Discipline Commission has dropped multiple charges against Family Court Judge Nicholas Del Vecchio, including accusations that he sexually abused his ex-wife’s 14-year-old daughter.
Another experienced Las Vegas pilot was killed over the weekend in a crash involving a home-built aircraft, the third fatal crash since Aug. 22 involving a local experimental plane or pilot.
Bishop Gorman High School senior Brian Glasgow gives new meaning to the term “two-way player.”
Lawyers representing the Review-Journal and The Associated Press said the issue of whether the public should be granted access to questionnaires completed by jurors is still alive.
The Nevada Ballet Theatre opened its season with a winsome “Giselle” that featured high-spirited performances by principal Yoomi Lee as a strong yet tragic Giselle, principal Kyudong Kwak as gamekeeper Hilarion, and soloist Jared Hunt as Count Albrecht.