CARSON CITY — Believe it or not, there was a silver lining to paying $4 a gallon for gasoline last summer: People cut down on unnecessary driving and far fewer of them died in accidents on Nevada’s highways and roads.
The origin of two quotes was incorrect in a listing of the top quotes of the year in the Dec. 15 edition of the Review-Journal.
The Regional Transportation Commission has 60 projects on its Christmas wish list.
CARSON CITY — First off, kids, black widow spiders have eight legs, and that makes them arachnids, not insects, so they are out of the running in the contest to pick Nevada’s official state insect.
Las Vegas police are still investigating the strangulation of a 74-year-old man found dead Friday in his home near Harmon Avenue and Jones Boulevard.
Around the casino industry they say all publicity is good publicity, but I’m not so sure the titans of Gaming Inc. will embrace that adage in the new year.
Las Vegas’ biggest snowstorm in 30 years kept Courtland Campbell and his friends in town long enough to attend the opening of the $2.3 billion Encore on Monday night. 
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Las Vegas police are searching for a man suspected of shooting his girlfriend in the face last week.
There might be 50 ways to leave your lover, but even Albert Einstein himself would have trouble adding up all the excuses the left uses to explain why so many of the government-run schools suck eggs.
Problems inherent in the October rush by Congress to “do something” about the faltering economy have now become patently obvious.
Lisa Torti and her former friend Alexandra Van Horn worked together at a San Fernando Valley department store in 2004. They and three co-workers went out to a bar on Halloween for a night of drinking and dancing, departing at 1:30 the following morning in two cars.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Monday approved land for one giant billion-dollar coal-fired power plant near Ely and issued a draft decision on a second one nearby.
RICHMOND, Va. — Circuit City Stores Inc. on Monday received final approval for $1.1 billion in financing to keep operating while the nation’s second-biggest electronics retailer is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Time is dwindling for procrastinating shoppers looking for last-minute gifts and steep discounts, those who make the final push in the retail industry’s most lucrative sales period.
A bankruptcy judge on Monday said a golf course at Lake Las Vegas that cost $30 million to build a few years ago has become similar to a “toxic dump” that nobody wants.
