Dr. Lonnie Hammargren says his house is like a little boy’s bedroom on steroids.
The city of North Las Vegas’ largest employee union has rejected a proposal to forgo a 4 percent cost-of-living increase for a year to save the city about $4.4 million.
The she-said, she-said spat between Hugh Hefner‘s ex, Holly Madison, and local TV reporter Alicia Jacobs continues to escalate.
Avital and Robert Yanover plan to have dinner this evening at the home of a family they’ve never met.
CARSON CITY — Clark County residents could start paying higher sales taxes in July 2011 to hire more police officers under a bill approved Tuesday by a key Senate panel.
RENO — Reno Mayor Bob Cashell says he has lined up significant financial commitments from several “well-connected” people in Southern Nevada as he weighs a campaign for governor next year.
A field of nine candidates was narrowed to six on Tuesday as voters in Mesquite seek to fill three of the five seats on their City Council.
Experience carried the day in Henderson on Tuesday, as six-term City Councilman Andy Hafen and four-term City Councilman Steve Kirk comfortably advanced in the race for mayor.
The valley’s largest water utility will shift to a four-day workweek July 1, saving an estimated $200,000 a year in fuel and energy costs.
The Michigan State Spartans and North Carolina Tar Heels were a few hours from meeting in Monday’s NCAA Championship.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley was not timid about compiling a wish list of earmarks for Congress to consider this year, including some national ones based outside Nevada.
The crowded race for two seats on the Boulder City Council is down from 10 candidates to four.
A select group of Nevada workers soon will enjoy a 12 percent pay raise despite a recession that is paring wages for virtually everyone else.
CARSON CITY — Three legal prostitutes told legislators Tuesday that they support a $5 tax for every session with a client as a way of doing their part to help the state solve some of its financial woes.
A story in Tuesday’s Business section contained an error. Bruce Allen, a fired security worker at M Resort who filed a National Labor Relations Board charge against the casino resort over his dismissal, said two security workers on another shift found confidential employee files in a company break room.
A teacher arrested on child pornography charges gained access to young boys by hosting sleepovers, during which the preteen victims were “drunk or drugged,” Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn said Tuesday.
North Las Vegas’ next mayor will be either Shari Buck or William Robinson, both North Las Vegas City Council members.
Congress is far too busy creating all-new disasters to worry about one of the biggest ones left over from 2008. If lawmakers are serious about stopping further damage to the economy, however, they’ll act quickly to clean up a lead-testing law that already is poisoning a number of industries with fatal amounts of regulation and uncertainty.
Licensing boards exist to protect the public. Whether these bureaucracies fulfill this mission or merely consume tax dollars to expand powerless empires depends on how much authority legislators are willing to grant — and how much information boards are allowed to release to the public.
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Instead of filling Easter baskets and supplying Easter-egg hunts with chocolate or sugar eggs, you may want to consider using the real thing. You’ll cut out lots of fat and sugar, and — something to consider in these budget-shattering times — eggs are an economical source of protein.
Man, it has been a long winter; I have a friend who has had bronchitis five times this winter. But spring has sprung, and most of us are grateful for that. However, we do have one leftover wintry request — for Lipton Chicken Noodle Cup-a-Soup, sought by Judy Dietrich. June Schule wrote that it can be found at Target at 6480 Sky Pointe Drive, and Herbert Harris e-mailed that he has ordered it from Amazon.com. …
Domino’s Pizza, 5355 S. Decatur Blvd., received 18 demerits March 27. Violations included employee not following proper hand-washing procedures. GRADE: B
For U2 fans, it’s official. The band will bring its 360? tour to Sam Boyd Stadium on Oct. 23.
Enrique Tinoco admits that his restaurant’s move to the Las Vegas Club from its former digs in downtown’s arts district has prompted some menu changes.
Josef and Karel Capek’s 1922 “The Insect Play” has been labeled anti-war and anti-human, but it may actually be anti-nature. You get the feeling that war is as strong an instinct as sex and selfishness. But that doesn’t mean this play isn’t fun. Director Brandon McClenahan focuses on the script’s humor in Insurgo’s production, and the result is a cartoonish comedy, great to look at, rich in thought.
Casino revenue statewide continued a 14-month downward spiral in February. But there was one bright spot in the avalanche of negative numbers — gaming tax collections increased for the first time in seven months.