While his allies insist he’s the innocent victim of a malicious and unjustified prosecution, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki’s detractors say he needs to account for serious crimes.
WASHINGTON — Despite pronouncements that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site is as good as dead when Barack Obama becomes president, the outgoing project director cautioned Thursday against throwing dirt on the grave just yet.
Three arbitrators cut through finger-pointing and bitter squabbling to find that Clark County and a contractor shared the blame for the flawed construction that caused the Regional Justice Center to open four years late and tens of millions of dollars over budget.
With few exceptions, most speakers Thursday told the Surface Transportation Board to suspend its review of federal plans to build a rail line from Caliente for hauling nuclear waste to a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Her reviews are done anonymously at Review-Journal expense.
Game shows on the Strip are a lot like news on the Internet: a match made in heaven, until you try to get someone to pay.
It seems like restaurant staffs are getting younger all the time, but this was the most extreme example yet.
Ron White takes a break from playing golf at California’s Montecito Country Club, where he has a house, to call me for 20 minutes and promote his gigs tonight and Saturday at The Mirage.
Morton’s the Steakhouse, 400 E. Flamingo Road, will serve lunch on six days this month. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Dec. 12 and Dec. 17-19. For reservations, call 893-0703. …
The Mirage Volcano roars back to life Monday after being dormant since February for a $25 million renovation.
John Beane has had a huge impact on local theater since his beginnings at the Onyx about two years ago. Under his managership, the state-of-the-art, 96-seat playhouse always has had something going on, and he’s unified fractions of the performing arts community.
On Friday and Saturday nights through Dec. 13, Sunset Station will draw 10 winners who will be given a choice of taking $1,000 or selecting a “Treasure Box” that could contain up to $250,000. Players receive one entry for every 100 Boarding Pass points ($100-$400 coin-in) earned from Nov. 30, plus everyone gets double entries on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Entries also can be earned at the tables, bingo and poker. Players must be present at the 8:15 p.m. drawings to win.
George Knapp, the veteran investigative reporter for KLAS-TV, Channel 8, turned the hose on the Southern Nevada Water Authority last week.
As anticipated, Nevada Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has prevailed upon a grand jury to indict Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki on charges stemming from his management of a multibillion-dollar college savings program while he served as Nevada’s state treasurer.
What a difference it can make when the public’s business is conducted in the light of day.
A conservative Nevada think tank Thursday turned up the heat on the public agency charged with promoting Las Vegas, alleging the agency has a culture of lax oversight, overly cozy relationships with contractors and spends tax dollars on luxuries such as fine food and wine for officials.
There’s a food fight going on in Las Vegas, and it’s not in any junior high school cafeteria.
Lake Las Vegas, the 3,600-acre Henderson community that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July, is giving up on the Falls Golf Course.
Two shareholders of Las Vegas Sands Corp. have sued the casino operator’s board of directors over the falling price of the company’s shares, which have lost roughly 95 percent of their value in the past 14 months.