CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio on Thursday criticized Clark County government officials for offering cost-of-living raises to its employees when state government might be forced to cut salaries by 6 percent.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted Thursday for a bill that allows police to stop any driver they think isn’t wearing a seat belt.
CARSON CITY — Nevada legislators who want to repeal tax exemptions and use the money to balance the state budget might find that difficult because legislative fiscal analysts said Thursday they could not compute how much the many tax breaks yield.
The Moapa dace has spent more than 40 years on the endangered species list. Its entire habitat has been in the protective custody of the federal government and the Southern Nevada Water Authority since 2007.
The Nevada Supreme Court has suspended Douglas Crawford for five years, rejecting a recommendation to disbar the longtime Las Vegas attorney who stole nearly $400,000 from clients to support his gambling and drug addictions.
CARSON CITY — The head of Nevada’s largest school district said Thursday he may have to reduce staffing by about 1,000 positions if lawmakers go along with Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed budget cuts.
Late-night TV host Craig Ferguson likes being a dad so much, he wants to father children with his new wife. Ferguson, performing stand-up tonight through Feb. 27 at the MGM Grand, says it’s refreshing to hang out with children.
Family Court Judge William Voy isn’t giving up on his mission to build a safe house for teen prostitutes, even if financial support for the idea has been slow in coming.
Dark and complex. Light and breezy. Weird and weirder. Three authors. Three outlooks. Three plays.
The album was called "Full Collapse," and it would portend the opposite of what its title implied.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
If you walk into The Bank nightclub at Bellagio feeling like you’re in for one of the richest nights of your life, then Jodi Myers, the club’s original managing partner and current president of customer development for Light Group, has done her job.
At 7:30 p.m. every Thursday in the Las Vegas Hilton Space Quest Casino, five players will be chosen to spin the “Wheel of Winners” for $1,000-$5,000. If one of the winners lands on a $1,000 “Drop and Win” bonus, he can receive additional cash and prizes. Resort Discovery Club members earn one free entry every day they play and receive an additional entry after 40 minutes of play on slots or table games. The casino is running several additional promotions, including a jacket giveaway to anyone hitting select hands at the tables (7-7-7 at blackjack, Ace plus Eight of Diamonds at Baccarat) or getting a Royal Flush (max coins, no wild cards) or a $1,000 jackpot on slots.
In 1983, believe it or not, Elvis wasn’t everywhere in Las Vegas. But for 26 years, there has been one sure and steady place to find him: the glory-glory-hallelujah, flag-waving finale of "Legends in Concert."
A number of local restaurants and chefs have been named finalists in the 2009 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards. Winners will be announced May 4 in New York. Local nominees are:
When it gets tougher to sell a show ticket during an economic nose dive, what are two sure-fire genres that still pack ’em in?
After decades of watching state welfare budgets increase by double-digit percentages, the economic slowdown finally hit.
In the wake of 9/11, some otherwise sensible observers declared that humor was dead. Americans, traumatized by the terrorist attacks, would laugh no more.
District Judge Susan Johnson has ordered the Clark County School Board to turn over e-mails to a citizen watchdog who challenged its public records policy.
There was no indication of reduced consumer spending Thursday at the new Costco Business Center on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Facebook has been in my face quite a bit lately.
A researcher and investor who foresaw the banking crisis, the residential and commercial real estate crashes and the downfall of General Growth Properties has set his sights on stock in Wynn Resorts Ltd. as a short-sell candidate.