Las Vegas police homicide detectives are investigating a suspicious death at a senior center near Harmon Avenue and Jones Boulevard.
New jobs coming to Wynn Encore and CityCenter are sorely needed in Nevada, where the unemployment rate hit 8 percent in November, the highest level since February 1984, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Friday.
RENO — Nevada wildlife officials on Friday called off a search for a mountain lion that attacked a woman and her dog in the mountains southeast of Reno. The incident was only the second such attack in the state on record.
RENO — Crews repaired downed power lines, motorists cursed and skiers rejoiced Friday as another winter storm raced through the Sierra with more snow and strong winds, including one gust of 142 mph over a mountain ridge west of Lake Tahoe.
Nineteen of Nevada’s 48 nursing homes received below average ratings under a new five-star rating system launched by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week, according to state data.
A fine version of the age-old classic, the Nevada Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker,” is complete with all the important lovely images: the perfect Flowers, the jewel-box Sugar Plum fairy, the show-stopping Russian doll and more.
Clark County found deficiencies in fire safety equipment at Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall & Saloon during a test performed just this month, even though the test was required by the casino’s March 2007 transformation from the Barbary Coast.
Wizard Weed smells like marijuana. It looks like marijuana. It burns like marijuana.
The 15 candidates who applied to fill in for two vacant Family Court seats were announced Friday.
The assistant injured Wednesday by an industrial fan during David Copperfield’s magic show was set to be released from University Medical Center on Friday afternoon.
Well, there’s at least one state government endeavor that isn’t pleading poverty during the current economic downturn.
About 45 investors, speaking by phone and in person at the Sawyer Building, complained Friday that a proposed settlement by OneCap Mortgage would not solve their problems with the troubled $400 million-asset hard-money lender.
With Christmas just days away, I figure it’s now or never for getting a note to Santa. I also want to share my thoughts on a couple of new mobile phones targeted squarely at the iPhone in today’s installment of Net Notes.
