RENO — The Reno City Council has targeted federal stimulus grant money for solar and wind projects and making the Reno Arch energy efficient.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons asked Wednesday for a waiver of a federal rule that requires a big increase in higher education funds in his proposed budget to qualify for part of the state’s nearly $1.5 billion in expected federal stimulus funds.
Henderson’s downtown justice facility bears his name, but Robert A. Swadell also had his fingers in a host of other projects that continue to shape Henderson and Pahrump.
Station Casinos plans to file for bankruptcy by April 15, the gaming company said Monday in a federal court filing.
Las Vegas used to be among the fastest-growing metro areas in the nation. That is not true any more, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The latest census numbers, to be released today, say the Las Vegas metropolitan area grew by 38,091 people from July 1, 2007, to July 1, 2008 — about 2 percent — putting the total population here at 1,865,746. Those numbers differ slightly from local demographers, who say we actually shrank by about 10,000 people to just shy of 2 million.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign on Wednesday challenged whether Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should keep his job in light of new questions about when the Obama administration knew of bonuses being paid to executives at bailed out insurance giant AIG.
CARSON CITY — After scant deliberation Wednesday, the Senate Government Affairs Committee accepted the recommendation of three Clark County fourth-graders and voted for a bill to make the vivid dancer damselfly the official state insect. “I feel very excited we are halfway there,” said Meagan Anders, a fourth-grader at Beatty Elementary School in Las Vegas, following the 7-0 vote. She and Beatty fourth-graders Lexie Arancibia and Ryan Underwood asked the committee to support Senate Bill 166 that names the damselfly as Nevada’s insect.
A Clark County grand jury indicted a woman this week on multiple charges, including three counts of falsifying orders of District Court judges.
A woman was killed Wednesday evening when her car drifted off Interstate 15 near Speedway Boulevard.
A Las Vegas medical practice is accused of defrauding two federal agencies by performing thousands of unnecessary cholesterol tests on patients.
Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday forwarded the hotel room tax increase approved by the Legislature to the secretary of state to become law without his signature.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts could break ground in as little as two months, now that the city of Las Vegas has put together a financing package that supports the construction and takes into account the impact of the economic downturn.
Without any doubt, former U.S. Attorney Dan Bogden shouldn’t have been fired for political reasons by the Bush administration. However, seven current or former prosecutors said, based on his poor management ability, he shouldn’t be rehired.
It’s no surprise when a producer passes along audience reviews such as:
What is this?” asked the dude who looked like a cross between John C. Reilly and Potsie from “Happy Days,” shortly after playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” on kazoo.
With its rolling lawns, four small lakes and cottonwood trees, Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs is the perfect natural setting for an afternoon of country music, beginning at 2 on Saturday.
After this weekend, every pop cultural icon from the ’80s will have officially been celebrated. The Knight Rider Festival — featuring a car show, live music and appearances by actors associated with the cheeseball TV series — screeches into the Fremont Street Experience on Friday and Saturday.
Thank heavens for mutual friends. Without them, who knows how many friendships, marriages and musical partnerships would never exist.
Best-selling author and television producer Dannion Brinkley will talk about his life, and his death, to an audience at the MGM Grand Conference Center Saturday.
Reality — not real reality, that other reality — bites.
Though they’ve played in such notable Vegas bands as Psychic Radio, Big Bad Zero and The Killers, The Lazystars’ blissed out rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t bear much in common with the band members’ solid pedigrees. Instead, they’ve forged their own sound, posited on buoyant melodies and cresting guitars. Read on as singer/keyboardist Dave Hawkins, guitarist Dave Meeks, bassist Tony DiVincenzo and drummer Brian Havens try and teach us how to be all cool and stuff.
Want to let off a little steam without leaving your computer? Visit www.ronwinter.tv/drums.html, where you can drum to your heart’s content. But this site doesn’t involve a mouse you use to hit pictures of drums. Here, you can use your keyboard to pound away.
One thing spring beauty isn’t guilty of: boring us. The trends for this season are sure to stop traffic. “Dynasty” blush, a return to wet tresses, bed head and tomato-stained lips can have that effect.
Dump out your nail polish remover. Sell your nail dryer. And, run your fingers through your hair, seconds after a manicure. That’s what spring’s hottest beauty trend begs you to do. Minx — the vinyl, stickerlike sheets that have all but replaced nail polish — are stirring up a sensation among beauty mavens, the way acrylic nails once did.
