It’s easy to measure the impact Tiger Woods has on golf wagering. When he tees it up, every shot matters and sports books are busy.
After winning the men’s gold medal in the Beijing Olympics, USA Basketball saw no reason to mess with success.
If hitting really is contagious, Centennial’s Katie Lee started quite an epidemic Tuesday.
Two national championship basketball teams will be featured in this week’s Sports Illustrated: North Carolina gets the cover, and Findlay Prep of Henderson will be featured inside.
At 8:53 p.m. Tuesday, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman called Steve Ross, the sitting councilman for Ward 6, to offer his best wishes on his re-election.
This week readers want to know whether drivers are subject to citation if they do not pull into the left lane if a police officer has pulled someone over on the right side of the road; what does KOM-674 stand for on a license plate; and what is the law regarding loud mufflers and how do stores get away with selling them?
Dr. Lonnie Hammargren says his house is like a little boy’s bedroom on steroids.
The city of North Las Vegas’ largest employee union has rejected a proposal to forgo a 4 percent cost-of-living increase for a year to save the city about $4.4 million.
The she-said, she-said spat between Hugh Hefner‘s ex, Holly Madison, and local TV reporter Alicia Jacobs continues to escalate.
Avital and Robert Yanover plan to have dinner this evening at the home of a family they’ve never met.
CARSON CITY — Clark County residents could start paying higher sales taxes in July 2011 to hire more police officers under a bill approved Tuesday by a key Senate panel.
RENO — Reno Mayor Bob Cashell says he has lined up significant financial commitments from several “well-connected” people in Southern Nevada as he weighs a campaign for governor next year.
A field of nine candidates was narrowed to six on Tuesday as voters in Mesquite seek to fill three of the five seats on their City Council.
Experience carried the day in Henderson on Tuesday, as six-term City Councilman Andy Hafen and four-term City Councilman Steve Kirk comfortably advanced in the race for mayor.
The valley’s largest water utility will shift to a four-day workweek July 1, saving an estimated $200,000 a year in fuel and energy costs.
The Michigan State Spartans and North Carolina Tar Heels were a few hours from meeting in Monday’s NCAA Championship.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley was not timid about compiling a wish list of earmarks for Congress to consider this year, including some national ones based outside Nevada.
The crowded race for two seats on the Boulder City Council is down from 10 candidates to four.
A select group of Nevada workers soon will enjoy a 12 percent pay raise despite a recession that is paring wages for virtually everyone else.
CARSON CITY — Three legal prostitutes told legislators Tuesday that they support a $5 tax for every session with a client as a way of doing their part to help the state solve some of its financial woes.
A story in Tuesday’s Business section contained an error. Bruce Allen, a fired security worker at M Resort who filed a National Labor Relations Board charge against the casino resort over his dismissal, said two security workers on another shift found confidential employee files in a company break room.
A teacher arrested on child pornography charges gained access to young boys by hosting sleepovers, during which the preteen victims were “drunk or drugged,” Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn said Tuesday.
North Las Vegas’ next mayor will be either Shari Buck or William Robinson, both North Las Vegas City Council members.
Congress is far too busy creating all-new disasters to worry about one of the biggest ones left over from 2008. If lawmakers are serious about stopping further damage to the economy, however, they’ll act quickly to clean up a lead-testing law that already is poisoning a number of industries with fatal amounts of regulation and uncertainty.
