As part of Taste America Las Vegas, a six-course winemaker dinner by James Beard award-winning chef Luciano Pellegrini is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at Valentino at The Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South. With an entree of buffalo medallion with white truffles, the six-course dinner (with white truffles in nearly every course) is $350 per person inclusive. For reservations, call 414-3000. …
Thanks to voter-imposed term limits, the seven-member Clark County School Board will feature at least three new faces next year — and that’s good. The district, now the fifth-largest in the nation and suffering from the usual pathologies, including dismal test scores, is in dire need of reform, which will require new blood on its governing body.
At first I wondered whether John McCain understands what socialism is. After all, he’s completely off base in calling Barack Obama a socialist.
Southern Nevada voters will choose three members of the State Board of Education this election.
ATLANTIC CITY — Claiming to be a different company with better management, the former owners of the Tropicana Casino and Resort formally requested Thursday that New Jersey casino regulators return control of the property to them.
NEW YORK — Shares of some casino operators slid to new lows Thursday as the sector swooned from investor anxiety about the softening economy and an analyst said MGM Mirage’s heavy Las Vegas concentration leaves it vulnerable.
The Service Employees International Union forged a tentative contract Thursday for 1,800 employees of St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, but the deal won’t derail a rival union’s organizing efforts.
About 40 percent of state-chartered banks in Nevada are interested in selling preferred stock or similar securities to the Treasury Department, a state official said.
Community Bancorp of Las Vegas slowed the financial bleeding from bad loans during the third quarter, but the company late Wednesday reported that problem loans continued to grow.
Station Casino executives told state gaming regulators Thursday they don’t know how well the $662 million Aliante Station will perform when it opens next month given current economic conditions.
Southern Nevada’s housing market hasn’t found its bottom and could suffer further in coming months, a panel of real estate experts said Thursday.
