Matt Jaskol wonders what it will take for him to get a chance to compete in a major national racing series.
It’s an hour before kickoff on an NFL Sunday, and the phone is ringing off the hook in Bob Scucci’s office inside The Orleans race and sports book.
As Barbara Soto watched her fellow homeowners tear open ballots at the Park Avenue condominiums Wednesday morning, tears welled up in her eyes and her lip quivered.
Democratic state Senate candidate Allison Copening used to have an A rating from the National Rifle Association. Not anymore.
As Wall Street wobbles and the state budget withers, it seems as if you have to go all the way to Ely to find some promising financial news.
RENO — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gained an endorsement Sunday from the Reno Gazette-Journal, while Republican presidential contender John McCain picked up the endorsement of the Elko Daily Free Press.
If a male candidate calls a female candidate “an idiot,” does that make him a sexist? What if a woman calls another woman “an idiot”?
CARSON CITY — Democrat Jill Derby does not see how she can lose her rematch against Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., since the economy has gone down the toilet and she considers him part of the crowd that caused the problem.
State Sen. Dina Titus may have a slight edge in her battle to unseat Rep. Jon Porter, but the race remains essentially tied, according to a new poll of the 3rd Congressional District commissioned by a liberal Web site.
An e-mail announcing the possibility that Siegfried & Roy would be returning to the stage “on a regular basis” is raising eyebrows.
RENO — When University of Nevada, Reno, freshman Joe O’Gorman registered to vote for the first time this year, he broke from his family’s Republican tradition and registered Democrat so he could vote for Barack Obama for president.
Just three months ago, a major think tank portrayed Nevada and four other states as transforming the southern Intermountain West into the “New American Heartland.”
By the end of Saturday, the biggest day of early voting yet, nearly 190,000 Clark County voters had gone to the polls, according to the Clark County Election Department.
Every time Nevada’s economy is on a roll — which is most of the time, fortunately — the big spenders in Carson City keep their mouths shut and spend to the hilt.
What was once one of the major barriers to Southern Nevada landing a major professional sports team continues to crumble.
Some people map out a career course and follow it the rest of their lives. Some people find their passion along the way. And some people find their niche in the world of work through serendipity.
