The top-seeded UNLV women’s tennis team lost to No. 29 Texas Christian 4-1 Saturday in the finals of the Mountain West Conference Championships in Albuquerque, N.M.
TALLADEGA, Ala. — It didn’t take Juan Pablo Montoya long to adapt to restrictor-plate racing. Now that he has enough horsepower, he could be in position to master the art at Talladega Superspeedway.
RENO — Despite budget shortfalls in Nevada and California, a new two-state park at Lake Tahoe has moved a step closer to reality.
Ballots for the June 2 Las Vegas city election are already being printed, but a fight over including two measures on those ballots is still going on.
With resounding applause erupting in the evening air, the fabulous “Folies Bergere” went dark last month at the Tropicana after a 49-year run.
CARSON CITY — Legislators who start the 13th week of the 2009 session on Monday will have to wait until Friday for the biggest development, a Nevada Economic Forum meeting to determine how much revenue lawmakers have for the state budget.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week to authorize more spending for the popular COPS program, which awards federal grants to local and state law enforcers.
At the CityCenter construction site on the Strip, where work proceeds at a dizzying pace with the first opening dates looming, a number of completed construction details remain to be documented to show they match plans approved by Clark County, according to a Review-Journal analysis of public records obtained from county building records.
Stages of construction
Thomas Kinsora did what he said was a thorough and fair neuropsychological evaluation of Dr. Dipak Desai, coming to the conclusion earlier this month that the brain injury impairment caused by a July stroke makes Desai currently incapable of assisting in his defense against malpractice charges.
Las Vegas police on Friday identified the two officers who shot a man in a southwest valley home late Tuesday night.
RENO — On the wind-swept desert of Northern Nevada, spring in one tiny town has been welcomed for years with a festival to a celebrated group of visitors — migrating loons.
Bravo’s “Top Chef,” the popular reality series that puts budding talent on the grill, will shoot in Las Vegas, according to reports.
THE CULINARY UNION BROKE NEW LEGAL GROUND in a filing last week over disputed ballot measures: Time travel.
Here’s a headline about one of Las Vegas’ most troubled neighborhoods: “Naked City bares society’s ills, but conditions slowly improving.”
Cindy Iverson spent the past 20 years trimming cuticles and buffing fingernails.
Holly Carratelli has been with her partner since 1994. They have two small children. They spend their days getting the kids to school and picking them up, making sure they do their homework, taking them to gymnastics and Cub Scouts.
Senate Democrats are thinking about passing health care reform with only a majority vote.
The soldiers of political correctness sure are keeping themselves busy at UNLV. Now they’re putting the finishing touches on a blatantly unconstitutional speech code that threatens First Amendment rights and academic freedom.
Let me get this straight. President Barack Obama is “open” to the prosecution and impeachment of Jay Bybee, a sitting federal judge, because of an opinion — an opinion?! — the man rendered before he became a judge and while serving America in the war on terror?
Compared to “voting against” kids with autism, voting for higher taxes is a walk in the park.
Newspapers play a major role in conveying to the people this nation’s key decisions.
On a party-line vote, the Democrat-dominated Nevada Assembly on Tuesday backed a bill designed to neuter the 538-member Electoral College, guaranteeing the presidential candidate who wins the national popular plurality will always be declared president.
Government has no business regulating relationships between consenting adults. The institution of marriage would be best left to churches and secular organizations that have religious or tradition-based interests in administering such contracts.
The laws of war, as subscribed to by most civilized nations — even if adherence can be spotty — draw an important distinction between uniformed prisoners of war and irregulars who wear no recognizable uniform, the better to meld into the general populace of non-combatants in order to act as spies or saboteurs, blowing up military installations behind the lines.