It’s little surprise that the NBA’s two best and most popular players are on the teams most favored to win the league championship.
The plan wasn’t to give Mike Clausen that much playing time — “It’s how the drives worked out,” coach Mike Sanford said — but UNLV’s backup quarterback didn’t waste the opportunity.
Two ballot measures challenging the way Las Vegas handles redevelopment should not be part of the June 2 city elections, a judge ruled Friday, a decision welcomed by city leaders who worried that the measures would destroy the city’s push to invigorate a struggling downtown.
When John Haines, drunk, suicidal and armed with two pistols, marched toward the house with his wife and toddler son inside, the Las Vegas police officers surrounding him thought the worst.
CARSON CITY — Reversing an earlier announcement, the Gibbons administration said Friday afternoon that it will submit an application next week to the U.S. Department of Education to seek nearly $400 million in federal stimulus funds.
About 650 soldiers from Nevada’s 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry mobilized Friday for a tour in Afghanistan in what their commander says is the largest overseas deployment of Nevada National Guard troops in history.
Near millionaires in Nevada who have either HIV or AIDS are receiving free medications from a government-funded drug assistance program, a violation of the program’s low-income eligibility requirements, a state health official has charged.
CARSON CITY — A Senate-Assembly budget panel recommended Friday that the Nevada Department of Public Safety rely on federal funding to cover costs of law enforcement jobs that would be eliminated under Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed budget.
CARSON CITY — Over the objections of a senator who beat cancer, the Senate voted 14-5 Friday to advance a bill that would allow adults to smoke in bars that serve food.
CARSON CITY — Rep. Dean Heller ducked questions about possible bids for U.S. senator or governor in 2010, telling reporters on Friday a re-election bid is his “plan today.”
As the state’s jobless rate sped toward a record in March, thousands of Nevadans gave up on finding jobs and left the work force, new numbers revealed Friday.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons has posted a large banner over the entry to his office in the Capitol that reads: “The people of the state of Nevada deserve a government that works for them, not against them.”
The Hard Rock Hotel’s new Joint got broken in exactly right on Friday night. Thin-mint women shimmied in tiny black skirts. The opening act was a band no one ever heard of. And the smell of smoked-weed-in-progress wafted gently higher.
• The photo at left, which appeared in Friday’s Review-Journal, had an incorrect caption. Dan Polsenberg, an attorney hired by the city of Las Vegas, is standing. Culinary Local 226 attorney Richard McCracken is seated, in the foreground.
Two people were killed and eight others were injured during a three-vehicle accident Friday evening.
Robin Williams is a tough act to follow. Good thing the 11th annual CineVegas film festival doesn’t have to.
President Obama now wants us all to ride trains — just like in his beloved Europe — as a means of reducing our carbon footprint.
Destination resorts in Las Vegas are betting locals can help fill the spending gap caused by fewer tourist and business traveler visits.
Station Casinos, which has been struggling under a mountain of debt and a declining revenues, is trying to sell several parcels of land it controls, including the former Castaways site.
In a time of fiscal restraint, the use of corporate jets and airplanes for business trips has been scrutinized by government and media as an excessive, unnecessary expenditure.
Events surrounding financially troubled MGM Mirage are fast becoming the gaming industry’s biggest soap opera.
Businessman Jeff Guinn and associates are suing Community Bank, claiming the bank unfairly cut off funding of a $29 million loan for Coronado Canyons, a 10-acre shopping center in Henderson.
