WASHINGTON — The nation lost nearly 600,000 jobs last month, the worst showing in a third of a century, as a vicious cycle of cutbacks by consumers forced ever more layoffs by beleaguered employers. The unemployment rate catapulted to 7.6 percent, the highest in 16 years, and seems headed for double digits.
When the Bureau of Land Management holds a public meeting Tuesday in Las Vegas, environmentalists are expected to lambaste a BLM draft study on the $5 billion Ely Energy Center, a 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant planned near the eastern Nevada city.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One month into a mysterious Mountain West Conference season, New Mexico coach Steve Alford insists not much has changed.
Kyle Busch never has been at a loss for a quip when on television.
Six consecutive pins by Cimarron-Memorial wrestlers in the quarterfinal round powered the Spartans to the lead on the first day of the Sunset Region wrestling championships on Friday at Bonanza.
The Las Vegas High wrestling team entered the Class 4A Sunrise Region tournament with No. 1 seeds from the Northeast League in all but four weight classes.
Foothill boys basketball coach Kevin Soares summed up Friday’s game at Silverado with one sentence.
With the Nevada blackout of Santa Anita and four other TrackNet racetracks in its second week, race book directors say the effect is evident.
Except for Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Wolfson, who drew no opponents by the end of the filing period Friday, every council and mayoral seat in the Las Vegas Valley is being contested.
A story in Friday’s Review-Journal incorrectly identified an inspection contract at CityCenter. Kleinfelder is inspecting the Veer tower. Converse Consultants holds multiple contracts, including inspections of the Aria towers.
WASHINGTON — The Senate approved an amendment on Friday declaring that no money from the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus bill may be spent on recreation projects including museums, golf courses, aquariums or zoos.
A Las Vegas neurosurgeon who admitted to federal authorities he accepted a half-million dollars in kickbacks and committed perjury to help increase settlement costs for a personal injury attorney must come up with a different settlement proposal if he wants to retain his Nevada medical license.
A Nevada State Bar disciplinary board has recommended an 18-month suspension for Kenneth W. Long, a former North Las Vegas prosecutor convicted of elder abuse in 2007.
Up to 2 feet of snow is forecast to fall on Mount Charleston this weekend in the first of several weather systems expected to move through the valley in the next several days.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, complained Friday that the “so-called sound stimulus package” being debated in the U.S. Senate will be of little help to Nevada because the state must spend hundreds of millions of dollars it doesn’t have in order to qualify for key federal education grants.
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners revoked the medical license of Dr. Harriston Bass Jr. on Friday, 11 months after the physician received a life sentence on a charge of second-degree murder.
Paul McCartney will help inaugurate the new 4,000-capacity theater at the Hard Rock Hotel with a concert April 19. He joins The Killers on an opening weekend that shuttles both acts back and forth from the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
Ambulatory surgery centers have come under increased scrutiny in the past year, since the announcement of an outbreak of hepatitis C at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.
Sarah Shahi, whose acting career got a huge boost when she appeared in a steamy cameo with Tony Soprano, is getting married in Las Vegas today.
