A New York banker with roots in Ely is exploring a run against U.S. Sen. Harry Reid.
CARSON CITY — With copper prices on the rise again, scrap metal dealers and utilities urged senators Thursday to pass a bill designed to make locating and prosecuting scrap metal thieves easier.
Las Vegas issues thousands of parking tickets each year and rakes in millions of dollars in fines and penalties. So why not milk that for all it’s worth? That is — given that city revenues are slumping in other areas — why not increase parking fines?
That’s what City Councilman Steve Wolfson was wondering Thursday morning after hearing a report on parking fine collections.
Daimon Monroe tried to convince a jury during his week-long trial that police and jail inmates set him up. He was innocent, he claimed, and never plotted to kill a judge, prosecutor and cop.
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced in the Senate would begin refunding billions of dollars to electricity consumers if President Barack Obama follows through on his vow to end the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste program.
Clark County School Board members took on downtown Las Vegas’ mob museum Thursday, telling its financial officer to hit up the city and the developer for $824,759 in anticipated education costs.
More people in Southern Nevada and other states have come forward to say they were victims of a scam that swindled at least $91,000 from older people here, police said Thursday.
Another Strip project could be in jeopardy, this time because lenders are refusing to provide $800 million in prearranged funding to complete Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
The widow of a former Clark County Health District employee claims her husband suffered mold poisoning in the workplace and unwittingly carried mold toxins home, where he contaminated her and others.
• The performance days for David Spade are incorrect in today’s Neon. Spade performs Thursday through May 2 and May 7-9 in the Showroom at The Venetian.
A margarita tasting with live entertainment from 4 to 7 p.m. May 2 will benefit the Nevada Ballet Theatre. It’s $35 in advance, $40 at the door; call 243-2623, ext. 222. …
The old proverb applies, it seems, when it comes to good focaccia: It and the weather have something in common, in that everybody talks about them but nobody does anything about them.
Look a little higher guys. Higher. Above the shoulders. There you go. See?
She’s singing.
Just because it’s a great story doesn’t mean it’s a great movie. For proof, look no further than "The Soloist."
The Atlas theater troupe turns out several plays a year, but what they do in their downtime is what helps make them unusual.
Not long ago, Queensryche was staging multimedia rock operas about brainwashed political assassins. The band still paints in big strokes, but the flights of fantasy have turned to cold reality.
Like Pabst and quiche, vomit and velour, Britney Spears and Las Vegas haven’t always mixed so well.
As this week is especially slow for casino promotion news (we’ve already told you about all the April promotions, and it is too early to write about May), we will explain the various terms that appear in this column every week.
Classic rockers Aerosmith team up with ZZ Top at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on July 25.
There are two things to be impressed with here. First, I asked my Facebook friends if they had any questions for Rick Springfield and a guy wanted me to find out if Springfield ever had sex with the guy’s ex-wife when she worked with him long ago.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Branden Powers describes Poetry Nightclub with what could be the most vivid one-line description of a nightclub ever.
The U.S. Supreme Court strengthened the Fourth Amendment and delivered a slap to the war on drugs Tuesday when it put new limits on the authority of police to search vehicles immediately following the arrest of a suspect.
Senate Bill 372 would severely weaken the voter-approved Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, which prohibits smoking in restaurants, supermarkets and bars that serve food. It should be defeated for at least four reasons.