As long as they’re trying to figure out ways to trim government costs by hundreds of millions of dollars to balance the recession-stung state budget, the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor listened to testimony Wednesday on a bill that would require the cutting down of more trees and the use of more energy to manufacture and transport more paper bags, while — as bonuses, mind you — imposing a new tax on Nevada shoppers and requiring us to foot the bill for more health inspectors to make sure grocery stores and other merchants stop using the “wrong kind” of plastic bag.
Leading 2-0 after the first period Saturday, the Wranglers appeared poised to take a 2-0 lead in their ECHL Pacific Division semifinal against Bakersfield.
With victory essentially wrapped up, many boxers become defensive, doing everything possible to avoid a surprise late knockdown.
Twins Trent and Travis Paulson actually aren’t identical.
Few things in life are certain, but here is one: Play hockey long enough, and for enough bad teams, and you are going to lose a lot of games.
There isn’t much Jeff Malm hasn’t accomplished as a Bishop Gorman baseball player.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Kenny Perry took one last look at the leaderboard behind the 18th green at Augusta National. This was no time to relish his position at the top with Angel Cabrera, rather to consider what lies ahead.
With one scholarship available for next season, UNLV coach Lon Kruger has several options. Some of those options might not even be obvious to him yet.
Oscar De La Hoya has made a decision about his boxing future and will announce his plans Tuesday.
The 51s fell to 0-3 with a 6-4 loss to the Sky Sox on Saturday in a Pacific Coast League game at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Twenty-four years ago, a boyish-looking teen stood in a Las Vegas courtroom, stunned after a jury had just convicted him of killing a Saks Fifth Avenue cosmetics saleswoman in one of the most notorious rape and murders in Las Vegas.
Four area residents are embracing Christianity this Easter, a time when, historically, Christians welcome newcomers into the faith. But, on a larger scale, they’re swimming against the current.
The conservative Nevada Action Coalition is organizing a Tax Day Tea Party to be held Wednesday at the main post office, 1001 E. Sunset Road.
HENDERSON MAYORAL CANDIDATE MICHAEL MAYBERRY IS OUT OF THE RACE NOW, so the following information can’t hurt, or help, his campaign.
Their names are quite different, their costs vary and their appearances are worlds apart.
I meet a lot of criminals in this business, but Father Louis Vitale is my favorite.
RENO — Conservationists say federal rules that allow livestock grazing and oil and gas drilling across 25 million acres of public land in the West are illegal because they fail to acknowledge the harm being done to sage grouse.
RENO — A former Texas school administrator has been named a finalist for superintendent of the Reno area’s school district, less than nine months after he resigned following an investigation into his acceptance of honoraria.
News from India on Thursday has the potential to turn the world upside down.
The first couple’s split went public in ugly fashion last week with the release of unsealed documents in which first lady Dawn Gibbons accuses Gov. Jim Gibbons of cheating on her with the wives of two Reno doctors.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start the 11th week of their 2009 session on Monday by reviewing a plan that could hold down state costs by keeping some probation violators from serving more prison time.
Fifteen months after the state Supreme Court demanded judges stop hiding lawsuits from the public, Clark County courts, judges and local attorneys have violated or misinterpreted new rules intended to keep court records open, court administrators said.
