In a season full of firsts for the Agassi Prep boys basketball team, the Stars managed yet another on Friday.
A chorus of almost 6,000 property owners have chanted the same mantra all month: Lower our taxes.
CARSON CITY — The Christmas season was a grim one for Nevada merchants, according to a state report Friday: The $3.92 billion in goods and services purchased during December was down 16.2 percent compared with the same month a year ago.
The road back from his 2004 championship season hasn’t been smooth for Kurt Busch, so the NASCAR Sprint Cup driver doesn’t want to make too much of his promising start this year.
A 46-year-old woman was shot and killed during a gunbattle between a group of men outside a North Las Vegas grocery store Friday night.
Twenty-plus college students pleaded with legislators Friday to keep the higher education system’s budget from being cut, which many said could end their chances of success in life.
Layoffs at Las Vegas law firms are yet another dismal economic indicator, but our town is only reflecting the national and international scene; we’re not unique this time.
Las Vegas Councilman Steve Ross should have disclosed a conflict of interest or abstained from voting on many items that have come before the City Council, according to an ethics complaint.
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William Myers II never thought it would happen to him and his family.
Jurors watched somberly Friday evening as prosecutors presented their key piece of evidence against child molestation suspect Chester Stiles: a 15-minute videotape that depicts the sexual assault of a 2-year-old girl.
RENO — The University of Nevada, Reno topped the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in donations in 2008, a report shows.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers raised concerns Friday over limited park operations and park staff reductions that would be required under Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed budget cuts.
Chiropractor Stephen Shaw must pay nearly $2.5 million to the widow of a retired music executive who died after Shaw shoved him during a confrontation at a Las Vegas car wash.
While the Obama administration has been pursuing a course to kill the Yucca Mountain Project, the Department of Energy has been quietly forging ahead with its plan to obtain water rights for building a rail line across rural Nevada to haul the nation’s highly radioactive waste for burial in the mountain.
Over the years, there have been plenty of bad ideas to come out of the Nevada Legislature, and Democratic Assemblyman Harry Mortenson’s latest proposal has to be near the top of that list.
Henderson-based Security Savings Bank was shut down by banking regulators Friday and will reopen Monday as branches of Bank of Nevada.
Gaming stocks sunk to levels during February that have not been visited since President Bush declared “mission accomplished” and Arnold Schwarzenegger was making movies rather than governing California.
NV Energy is looking for a 3.6 percent rate increase that would begin Oct. 1, a month after the utility wants a previously announced 18 percent increase request to go into effect.
An announcement Friday that MGM Mirage tapped into its revolving line of credit to borrow $842 million for general corporate purposes led three credit rating services to devalue the company’s bonds and sent the casino operator’s stock price to an all-time low.
Local civil engineer Bill Bolduc has lost his job twice in the last year.