WASHINGTON — How Nevada might benefit from the national stimulus package became clearer Thursday, though analysts cautioned that the numbers still could shift before the package reaches President Barack Obama’s desk.
Indian Springs Water Co., which serves the similarly named community located northwest of Las Vegas, is asking state regulators to increase rates to offset increased operating expenses, maintain their profits and ensure the company’s viability.
RENO — Legislation was introduced Thursday in Congress that would prevent the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from killing otherwise healthy wild horses and burros that roam Western states.
CARSON CITY — The state Ethics Commission on a 3-2 vote Thursday refused to accept former state Agency for Nuclear Projects administrator Bob Loux’s proposal to pay the state back more than $29,000 in salary overpayments in exchange for dropping an ethics complaint against him.
Three Las Vegas same-sex couples joined hundreds of others across the country in being rejected for marriage licenses Thursday, part of an annual protest drawing attention to the fact that gay and lesbian couples can’t get married in most states.
Bar Refaeli flew into Las Vegas on a Southwest Airlines jet adorned with her swimsuit-clad image from the plane’s door to the tail.
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The Clark County School Board on Thursday cracked down on an “open-ended” overtime policy that put Clark County School District police officers and support staff among its highest earners.
You’re off to see the cellist, the wonderful Cellist of "Oz."
Andy Walmsley’s work has been seen by millions, but few of them know his name.
Station Casinos is running a combined four-property “$150,000 Daily Slot Tournament” through Feb. 26. Monday play is at Green Valley Ranch, Tuesday is at Sunset Station, Wednesday is at Boulder Station and Thursday is at Fiesta Henderson. One daily five-minute entry is free to every Boarding Pass or Amigo Club cardholder, and up to two additional free entries may be earned with slot play. Five winners share $2,500 daily. Ten grand prize winners share $124,000 (including a $100,000 first prize). Although it is a three-week event (and the first week already has passed), the grand prize winners are determined by the sum of your best two scores at each property, so everyone still has a fair shot at the grand prizes.
You’d have to have been hiding under a rock — a rock on another planet, even — to not know about The Pussycat Dolls.
Hugo’s Cellar has long been one of the best things downtown Las Vegas had to offer — an old-Vegas-style "gourmet room" in the best sense of the word, a reminder that although we’ve moved on to newer things, it’s nice to hang on to the best of the past.
Chris Isaak tours the road so often (about 80 percent of the time), that when he went to sleep in his own house in San Francisco recently, he woke up and dialed “0” thinking he would get room service.
Harvey Fierstein, the star of “Hairspray” which played the Luxor in 2006, had a few unkind words to say about Vegas during a recent New York television talk show.
Storied rocker Paul McCartney headlines the new Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on April 19. Tickets start at $195 and go on sale at noon Saturday at the Hard Rock box office, 4455 Paradise Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets are on sale for the third annual Vegas Uncork’d sponsored by Bon Appetit magazine. It’s scheduled for May 7-10 at Bellagio, Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, Wynn Las Vegas and Encore. Events will include a pool-side grand tasting with 75 chefs and vintners, dinners hosted by chefs, a culinary competition and more. For tickets and more information, visit www.VegasUncorked.com. …
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
At one point in "Confessions of a Shopaholic," one of the few characters in the movie who’s not a shopaholic ponders an all-American assumption.
Round and round and round we go, where the shows stop … well, usually after the second act, a curtain call and a really kickin’ cast party (BYOB).
The billboards promise Terry Fator and "His Cast of Thousands." That’s cheeky Vegas hyperbole, but there is no doubt that without his puppets — maybe not thousands, but easily a dozen — Fator never would have drawn the "America’s Got Talent" attention that led to fame and fortune on the Strip.
It’s too early for the crow or even the mockingbird to put in an appearance, but mourning doves greet the gray first light as a family of Gambel’s quail stirs in the ground cover. The eastern sky shows faint yellow and pink as, down near the mission, the homeless guys emerge from their bedrolls — men who once made a decent living in the construction trades, back when Nevada was still a “can-do” kind of state.
One bright spot arising from the dismal economic climate: Clark County officials are rethinking their constitutionally dubious “work card” requirements.
Let’s start here: Downtown redevelopment is a good thing. Cities benefit from a thriving core — a commercial, cultural and residential hub that draws residents and visitors who are enlivened by the energy of a genuine urban experience.
WASHINGTON — Nevada can generate enough electricity from renewable sources to justify building a major transmission line without constructing any more coal-fired power plants, the federal government’s chief electricity regulator said Thursday.
In tough economic times, it seems even true love can’t forestall thrift.