WASHINGTON — On a single day filled with staggering sums, the Obama administration, Federal Reserve and Senate attacked the economic crisis Tuesday with actions that could throw as much as $3 trillion more in government and private money into the fight against frozen credit markets and rising joblessness.
A story in Friday’s Business section incorrectly identified the employer of Rick Gilliam. He is managing director of policy for SunEdison.
Mired near the bottom of the standings for most of this season, the Wranglers suddenly find themselves sitting atop their division.
Las Vegas boys basketball coach Jason Wilson told his team to be ready for a playoff atmosphere at Canyon Springs on Tuesday night.
The UNLV women’s basketball team couldn’t recover from a 21-0 first-half run by Texas Christian, losing 75-46 on Tuesday night in a Mountain West Conference game in Fort Worth, Texas.
Many were errors forced by UNLV, and others were self-inflicted wounds. Either way, Texas Christian committed far too many mistakes against the Rebels on Tuesday night.
A nightmare of a week was continuing, and Wink Adams could not believe what he was seeing. He also was afraid of what he was about to hear.
It’s like running five miles and claiming you just completed a marathon.
We are left with an obvious question this morning: How in the world did UNLV’s basketball team lose to Texas Christian last month?
A national conservation group has announced plans to sue the federal government for failing to protect endangered fish and desert tortoises that could be harmed by groundwater development plans in northern Clark County.
The venerable drag show “An Evening at La Cage” abruptly ended its 23-year run Monday, though the revue still might have two possible futures under different scenarios.
Their recent stories are familiar: layoffs, constant financial worries, the struggle to put food on the table for their families. But many of the men, waiting in line on a Friday at the Broncos money-transfer business on east Desert Inn Road, haven’t seen the families they are supporting in months or even years. Immigrants who came to the United States for work are dealing with the same dismal economic environment as everybody else. The added difficulty for immigrants is deciding at what point it is no longer financially worthwhile to live in a country where your loved ones do not.
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This week readers want to know when the traffic signals at Tropicana Avenue and Steptoe Street in the southeast valley are going to start working, what the state law is regarding headlight use, and whether there are plans to build an interchange on U.S. Highway 95 at Sahara Avenue.
A national accrediting body and the state’s Department of Health and Human Services have agreed to share information in an attempt to prevent infection control breaches such as those linked to a hepatitis C outbreak at a Las Vegas clinic.
FRESNO, Calif. — State officials said Tuesday they’re stepping up efforts to banish invasive species, including Quagga mussels that clog cooling pipe systems on the Colorado River and Asian citrus psyllids that threaten Southern California orange trees.
The Clark County School District spent nearly $500,000 last year on guards to stand fire watch, an expense that has drawn criticism as education funding dwindles in tough economic times.
Five candidates vying for two vacant Clark County Family Court seats were chosen Tuesday after two days of interviews conducted by the Commission on Judicial Selection for the Eighth Judicial District Court.
Police on Tuesday arrested the parents of a 3-year-old boy who last month was bitten and squeezed to the point of unconsciousness by an 18-foot python.
After 231/2 years, the end of the line for “An Evening at La Cage” came with the suddenness of a stiletto heel snapping in half.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign on Tuesday called on congressional leaders to allow full television coverage of negotiations this week where a handful of House and Senate members will finalize the economic stimulus bill.
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s two House Democrats on Tuesday endorsed a waiver that could allow the state to qualify for federal grants for schools even if it can’t meet the financial requirements.
In late October then-candidate Barack Obama told an audience of 18,000 people in Las Vegas he wanted to help, “not just the folks who own casinos but the folks who are serving in casinos.”
Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo is an experienced cop known for choosing his words wisely. As an elected official, he knows it rarely pays to vent in public.
You gotta love Episcopalians. They can argue over big things with the intensity of a UFC cage match, but with the decorum of 4 o’clock tea.
There was a time when the Legislature’s biggest budget battles focused not on whether state government should grow, but on how much it would grow. Merely maintaining the size of government? Pshaw! Reducing it? Impossible.