A headline in Thursday’s Business section was incorrect. MGM Mirage reported a 67 percent drop in profit for the third quarter.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy switched operators of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, awarding a $2.5 billion management contract Thursday to a team headed by a unit of URS Corp., a major construction and engineering design firm.
Today is the last day to cast your vote early, and turnout records have already been shattered as Election Day nears.
On the eve of Election Day, Republican nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, plan to make their final stops of the presidential campaign in Nevada, campaign officials announced Thursday.
A 33-year-old man was charged Thursday in the slaying of a 29-year-old North Las Vegas woman whose body was found in a ravine Sept 6.
CARSON CITY — Voters in Clark and Washoe counties are supporting an advisory question that would raise the room tax to generate money for public education, a Review-Journal poll shows.
The Nevada attorney general’s office will appeal a federal judge’s decision that bars the state from applying a new sex offender law retroactively.
Two political rivals are assaulting each other’s character in a brutal advertising blitz that’s intensifying as their race enters its final stretch.
Randy rap-rocker Kid Rock rings in the new year at The Pearl at the Palms on Dec. 31. Tickets are $130, $205 and $255 and go on sale at noon Saturday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo, and Ticketmaster outlets.
The Eastside Cannery is running a free $35,000 November Rain Slot Tournament from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday through Nov. 9. All C.A.N Club members receive one daily entry. At the end of each day of play, the top five scorers win $100-$500 in cash and (along with the next five scorers) will advance to the finals at 7 p.m. on Nov. 9. The 27 final prizes include $100-$10,000 cash, plus all tournament participants will be automatically entered into a drawing awarding 51 players $50-$1,000. Winners need not be present at the drawing, but must claim their prizes by midnight.
It’s easy to tell whether “The Real Deal” is your kind of show — if “show” is even the right word.
The Day of the Dead, the Mexican celebration honoring departed loved ones, is being celebrated through Nov. 7 at Border Grill at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Food specials include pozole, stuffed squash flowers and Oaxacan chicken mole. …
Like so many comedians, Rodney Carrington tells jokes about genitals and breasts. Offstage, his goal is to be a good husband, friend and dad, and to live a fairly normal life in Tulsa, Okla. These two lifestyles don’t have to be in conflict, but they are.
As fashion statements go, George Knapp’s 1982 Halloween costume was definitely smoking hot.
From costume contests to nightclub parties, Vegas venues offer variety of Halloween events.
You couldn’t take your eyes off the man, like a moth drawn to a flaming guitar.
Because more than one-third of Clark County voters have already cast ballots, the final turnout for early voting — which ends Friday — could rise to more than half of the electorate.
It started with the grass. The couple living next door — nice people, considerate neighbors — had a run of bad luck. The man lost his job. The woman got cancer. They couldn’t keep up with their mortgage payments.
The multimillion-dollar TV and direct-mail smear campaign waged against Nevada state Sens. Bob Beers and Joe Heck by the state Democratic Party, and now apparently by some local police and fire unions, has been a marvel of distortion.
Joe the Plumber rose to fame after telling Sen. Barack Obama that he planned to buy a small business and was worried that he’d be forced to pay higher taxes if the Democrat won the White House.
The company redeveloping the Lady Luck hotel-casino is seeking a rebate of 75 percent of its sales tax from planned development adjacent to the old downtown post office, a city official said.
Profits earned by slot machine giant International Game Technology were cut in half during the fourth quarter, but Wall Street wasn’t focused on results.
