Wendell Turner, justice of the peace in Searchlight, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke. He was 72.
Not all the news out of the CityCenter project has a Heartbreak Hotel ring to it.
This week readers want to know when the construction on Interstate 15 parallel to the Strip is going to end, what’s happening on St. Rose Parkway in Henderson and what’s the easiest way to get from U.S. Highway 95 to I-15 north.
RENO — A new study by researchers at the University of Arizona suggests that a combination of global warming and drought could prove exceptionally deadly to pinion pine, Nevada’s state tree.
They turned out in droves for Barack Obama in 2008.
Now Harry Reid hopes those Democratic voters will turn out for him in 2010.
Reid is running for re-election, and Tuesday night marked the kickoff of his organizing effort: About 300 supporters attended a rally and barbecue put on by the state Democratic Party to hear him speak, ask him questions and eat free hamburgers in a downtown office building.
CARSON CITY — State lawmakers have voted to restore funding for rural mental health clinics, keeping open nine clinics of the 11 that Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed to close.
Six new public schools are supposed to open in the fall, but Clark County School Board member Sheila Moulton wonders whether it might be better to “mothball” some of them because of the dire financial circumstances.
For months, ominous financial clouds have boiled up across the valley’s once sunny banking fraternity, but on Monday, Community Bank of Nevada President Edward Jamison made it clear his hand was steady and the financial institution he captains was riding out the economic storm of the new century.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that he will veto the domestic partnership bill giving same-sex couples the same legal rights as married couples if it passes both houses of the Legislature.
Henderson’s first female city manager was fired Tuesday, ending an 18-month tenure that City Council members say created “a culture of fear.”
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers and witnesses gave emotional testimony Tuesday on a bill that would allow police to stop any driver they believe isn’t wearing a seat belt.
CARSON CITY — The state Board of Examiners agreed Tuesday to pay $2 million to the husband of a woman killed in an accident involving a Las Vegas police officer’s spouse.
Robert Blue shuffled into a Las Vegas courtroom Tuesday and claimed to be a changed man, both physically and mentally.
A headline in Tuesday’s Review-Journal about the Caylee Anthony murder case was incorrect. It should have read : Mom of Caylee Anthony may face death penalty.
Air Force investigators are probing the crash of a Creech Air Force Base-assigned unmanned MQ-9 Reaper spy plane that went down March 20 during a training mission over Fort Irwin, Calif., an Air Combat Command spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.
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Attempting to restore both morale and fiscal sanity to a county hospital whose previous gang of Chicago operators face indictments for misappropriation of funds — a public hospital still hemorrhaging cash and thus requiring taxpayer subsidies at unacceptable levels — new University Medical Center CEO Kathy Silver and her management team had some tough cost-cutting decisions to make late last year.
Somali pirates on Monday vowed to retaliate for the deaths of three colleagues, who were shot dead by U.S. Navy snipers as they held an American merchant captain hostage on a lifeboat off the coast of Somalia.
Eat the wrong pistachio dessert today and you could end up with salmonella. A wide variety of peanut products have been potential hazards for months. Before that were spinach, tomatoes, scallions. And that’s not to mention land mines such as foods that are cooked or cooled improperly or stored at temperatures that are too high or too low, or a host of others.
China One, 11710 W. Charleston Blvd., received 20 demerits March 31. Violations included food not thawed properly. GRADE: B
Here’s another regional favorite that has found a home in our melting pot of a community: Italian beef sandwiches with sport peppers and giardiniera, being sought by Keri Merlini.
The association between good food and airplanes has never been a strong one.
Station Casinos has secured an extension until May 15 to continue negotiations on a prepackaged bankruptcy with its lenders and bondholders, the company announced late Tuesday.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority on Tuesday approved a new three-year advertising and marketing deal with R&R Partners, creators of the “What happens here, stays here” advertising slogan.
With consumers cutting back on spending, the retail industry is adjusting from a period of overbuilding and expansion, resulting in store closures, bankruptcies and rent reductions, a local retail specialist said Tuesday.
A second lawsuit concerning how Las Vegas Sands Corp. received a Macau gambling license moved closer to the courtroom Tuesday.