I’m confident whatever plan legislative Democrats come up with to create a more stable tax base for Nevada will earn the support of Sen. Bill Raggio, R-Reno. But what will he extract from Southern Nevada in exchange?
Plans have been filed for a 47-story hotel-casino in Union Park. If it’s built, it would be the first new casino downtown since 1979.
Elaine Wynn, addressing for the first time published accounts of a split with her husband, Wynn Resorts chairman and CEO Steve Wynn, denounced a report that appeared here Friday that referred to “rumblings” that he was planning to move his alleged girlfriend into one of his resorts.
State regulators are scrutinizing an $80 million loan that the city of Las Vegas is seeking to make to itself as a way to keep downtown redevelopment projects going during the economic downturn.
A 42-year-old man was found guilty Friday of trying to kill several police officers during a 2007 stand-off.
An estimated 295,000 people are expected to pour into Las Vegas this Super Bowl weekend — about 1 percent fewer than in 2008.
The case involving two North Las Vegas police officers about alleged criminal misconduct highlights a fine line in law enforcement, where police chiefs have to decide how to police their own.
For years Nevada has been among the worst in the nation when it comes to caring for its most vulnerable residents, consistently ranking near the bottom in childhood immunizations, education funding, children with health insurance and other key measures.
Seven people were killed and nine others suffered serious or critical injuries after a bus carrying Chinese tourists overturned Friday afternoon 27 miles south of Hoover Dam.
CARSON CITY — Assembly Republicans have issued a five-point state spending management plan that could reduce the state’s $10 billion unfunded retirement and health care liabilities and require the Legislature to set aside money to reduce the effect of future recessions, the party leader said Friday.
WASHINGTON — Workers at the Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain Project in Las Vegas are being urged to launch an e-mail campaign aimed at saving their jobs in light of dwindling budgets threatened by Sen. Harry Reid and the Obama administration.
While on the campaign trail, Barack Obama expressed refreshing opposition to the Gestapo-like tactics the Bush Justice Department has used to undermine popular will on the issue of medical marijuana.
District Court Judge Timothy Williams approved a joint motion Friday for a $90 million settlement of a class action lawsuit involving faulty Kitec plumbing fixtures manufactured by Canada-based IPEX.
A statewide sales tax report has revealed steep drops in economic activity inside Nevada’s restaurants, furniture stores, car dealerships and clothing boutiques.
Station Casinos Inc., which operates Las Vegas-area properties including Red Rock Casino and the 2-month-old Aliante Station, may be on the brink of default, an analyst said Friday.
A longtime admirer of Sir Richard Branson has got the attention of the flamboyant billionaire — but not the way he would have liked.
