A plan that reduces city of Las Vegas employees’ cost-of-living raises by 1 percentage point while extending for five years contract terms under which many employees will see annual raises of 5 percent to 7 percent was unanimously approved Wednesday by the City Council.
The Clark County School Board today will consider a new policy requiring school district employees to quit their jobs if they are elected to the board.
Construction problems caused MGM Mirage to delay and revise a component of its multibillion-dollar CityCenter development Wednesday, but the financial community found some positive aspects to the announcement.
CARSON CITY — The state’s slowed rate of growth is being reflected in its schools.
The Light Group remains plugged into the MGM Mirage-led CityCenter project.
Nevada’s newest Gaming Control Board member, Mark Lipparelli, is serving the shortest term in the board’s history — a mere 25 days. Lipparelli’s quirky term began Jan. 1 and ends Jan. 25.
YERINGTON — Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has filed a lawsuit to force a new election in the Ward 2 Fernley City Council race.
SPARKS — A day after the city laid off 34 full-time employees, the town’s largest sporting goods store is laying off about 50 workers.
It began with her singing the Barney theme song at birthday parties and family gatherings at her father’s behest.
Bee Movie The Band deserves to be building a buzz that rivals that of their namesake. With a dense, yet melodic wall of guitars and an emphasis on texture and nuance, this bunch is a group to keep an eye on. Read on, as the band tells us how it is.
If you have to dance in a place without air conditioning, it’s good that it’s a male G-string revue, right?
Filmmaker, musician and raconteur Chad Simmons, who grew up in Las Vegas, graduated from Eldorado High School and got his degree from UNLV, says he left town because sometimes, “you’ve just got to move away from your hometown.”
A commemorative postage stamp issued by Liberia that honors president-elect Barack Obama will be on sale this weekend at the Coin, Currency, Jewelry & Stamp Show in Las Vegas.
Linear logic and the laws of time and space? Narrative nuisances.
Michael Green isn’t a producer. But if he were, he knows exactly what marching orders he would give to his writers and directors over the next few months.
There’s been a swap at the top at the Nevada Humanities Council.
There are cute things, then there are cute things that are asleep, which really just ups the “awww” factor at least 1,000 times. If you’re having a bad day, go to www.cutethings fallingasleep.org, where — and this may shock you — you can find videos of adorable little things such as baby dogs, cats and humans catching zzzzzs.
It’s time to put the “home” in your home office. Do you currently work in a room that’s a headset away from your dismal, corporate cubicle? We’d like to help you create a personalized, style savvy work space, instead.
Trips to the spa tend to be put on the back burner when job security is at a level red. We don’t blame you for removing spa treatments from the monthly to-do list, but we’d like to help you put them back on.
If we didn’t know any better, we’d say Victoria Beckham was going for an incognito look. While her ensemble as a whole undoubtedly says, “Shhh, keep it on the down low,” it’s the human accessories that give her away. We do, however, applaud the effort.
Democrats in the House are wasting no time paying back two of their biggest benefactors: organized labor and the trial bar.
