Nevadans told members of a congressional panel Tuesday that the $700 billion Wall Street bailout has not filtered down to help the victims of the current economic crisis in one of the nation’s hardest hit areas.
This week readers want to know what happened to the shrubbery that was removed from Interstate 15 near Lake Mead Boulevard; who is Raphael Rivera and why was the Frontage Road along the Las Vegas Beltway in the southwest named for him; and are there any alternate routes to Southern California instead of waiting for the blasting on I-15 to finish? And the Road Warrior eats some crow after his favorite football team lost Sunday.
Clark County employees can take three-day weekends for the next month without using any vacation time.
A judge has suspended the licenses of three physicians and prohibited them from practicing medicine in Nevada pending a medical board disciplinary decision scheduled for early next year, officials said Tuesday.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the second body found last month in a burned-out car in the desert as 25-year-old Martin Martinez Jr.
Christmas spirits will be flowing at the Hard Rock Hotel tonight.
The legacy of the rural, one-room schoolhouse could end with the budget ax in the Clark County School District.
After eighteen ignored traffic tickets, David Drum owed more than $20,000 to the Las Vegas Justice Court, making him the court’s worst offender for unpaid traffic fines.
The amount of money coming into University Medical Center increased in fiscal year 2008, according to an audit by the accounting firm Percy Bowler Taylor & Kern.
Luna’s anguished howl was unmistakable. The dog was in trouble.
WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the federal laboratory director selected this week to lead the Department of Energy, signed on to a nuclear energy report whose recommendations included licensing for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
The Las Vegas medical clinics linked to a hepatitis C outbreak must turn over financial records to a group of lawyers representing patients infected with the disease, a judge ordered Tuesday.
Former District Attorney Rex Bell wanted to clarify the circumstances when he allowed Las Vegas police to place a bug in his office when Nevada Supreme Court Justice Bob Rose met with him to discuss a case in 1993. “I never thought Bob Rose would make any improper suggestions, and he did not,” Bell said Tuesday, commenting on Jane Ann Morrison’s Dec. 11 column on electronic surveillance. Rose was a Supreme Court justice at the time, not a district judge as stated in the column.
A state mental health administrator said Tuesday that authorities are developing a plan to segregate the violent from the passive patients at Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital, where two rapes involving patients are alleged to have occurred in November.
Monday, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto signed an unprecedented agreement with two northern Mexican states — Chihuahua and Baja California — vowing to share intelligence and assist leaders there in reforming their archaic judicial system, which has proved largely ineffective in dealing with powerful drug cartels that have become almost separate, parallel governments.
The financial sector’s freefall has put millions of retirements in jeopardy and delayed millions more. The country’s savers are scrambling to maintain what assets they have left, knowing further market losses will mean a commensurate sacrifice in their standard of living.
Ah, fresh mozzarella; there’s nothing like its delicate texture and nutty flavor. And this week readers tell Bob Daniels where to find it.
Great, traditional steakhouses are a Las Vegas birthright. But valley meat-lovers lately have begun to appreciate some new twists on the classic martini/shrimp cocktail/T-bone/baked potato paradigm.
Big Al’s Oyster Bar, bar area, The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., received 20 demerits Dec. 4. Violations included chemicals not stored properly. GRADE: B
Construction has been suspended on the ManhattanWest mixed-use condo development in southwestern Las Vegas, the developer said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday said he intends to push legislation that would allow renewable energy developers to receive eight years of tax credits in one year.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ preview center opened last week with little fanfare but lots of questions about when, or if, its 1,018 condominium units will go on sale.