CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford announced a plan Friday to use federal stimulus funds to retrain people and create a work force for the coming renewable energy economy in which Nevada can lead the nation in geothermal, solar and wind energy production.
Former Clark County Commissioner Mary Kincaid-Chauncey’s attempt to clear her name in connection with her conviction on public corruption charges failed at the appellate level Friday.
Monday’s opening night of “Legends in Concert” at Harrah’s will feature a Mardi Gras-like parade down the Strip with Elvis, Madonna and Frank Sinatra leading the way.
ELKO — A federal appeals court has refused an emergency request to block construction of a huge gold mine in northeast Nevada that tribal leaders and others oppose on environmental and religious grounds.
Clark County coffers dipped nearly $60 million this month, after the money was wired to the bonding company for AF Construction owner Paul Faulkner. His dealings with the county are over, ending the 68-year-old contractor’s eight-year nightmare.
The majority owner of two endoscopy centers linked to a hepatitis C outbreak who is facing a medical malpractice complaint must undergo an independent physical examination to determine if he’s still suffering residual effects of a July stroke, a Nevada State Board of Medical Examiner’s hearing officer has ordered.
A Nellis Air Force Base airman and his wife died in what is believed to be a murder-suicide Friday in a North Las Vegas apartment.
Henderson expects to save $15 million over the next five years thanks to an employee buyout program that enticed 57 city workers to give up their jobs.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons backed off Friday from his plan to require casinos to pay gaming taxes more quickly on “markers,” or credit extended to players.
RENO — A thief with a guilty conscience has helped get a 19th-century headstone back to its original location in a historic Northern Nevada cemetery where he stole it more than 30 years ago.
CARSON CITY — A spokesman for a company criticized Thursday by a legislator for not hiring Nevadans said Friday that 65 percent of the workers they used to build a Boulder City area solar facility were local residents.
NEW YORK — Banks got bailed out. So did automakers. So why not struggling homeowners?
A story in Friday’s Review-Journal misidentified the birth country of Zyber Selimaj, who is suing Henderson police in the shooting death of his wife. Selimaj was born in Albania.
WASHINGTON — After an initial misfire, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has set his sights on another government agency planning a conference in Las Vegas. This one is for federal cemetery managers.
If there were any good news in Nevada’s estimated $8 billion highway funding shortfall, it’s that the Department of Transportation won’t have any problem spending the state’s $201 million share of federal stimulus funding.
The following is not a misprint: A local hotel-casino construction project has benefited from the economic slowdown and plans to open some components ahead of schedule this year.
In a retail market of rising vacancy and increasing commercial defaults, business partners Mark Berry and Javier Barajas had a plentiful selection of places to open a third Lindo Michoacan restaurant in Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — The regulatory agency that oversees Nevada’s multibillion-dollar casino industry may lose some veteran staffers in key positions because of proposed state salary and retirement benefit changes, lawmakers were told Friday.
Senior guard Wink Adams scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half to
lead UNLV to a 75-74 victory over Brigham Young tonight at the Thomas &
Mack Center. The crowd of 18,523 at the Thomas & Mack Center marked UNLV’s first sellout since Jan. 23, 1993, in a game against Georgetown.
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