Surrounded by the Stanley Cup, Vezina Trophy and other coveted NHL awards as he spoke on the outdoor deck of The Palms’ Ghostbar on a sun-splashed Monday afternoon, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman barely could contain his excitement about bringing the league’s awards show to Las Vegas for the next three years.
DETROIT — There was a lot of talk about preparation around here the last few days, about how Michigan State’s coaching staff gets its basketball team ready to play big games on quick turnarounds, about how the Spartans have enough video experts to open a film school, about numerous 20-minute sessions for players throughout the day and sometimes late into the night.
Audience members applauded appreciatively Saturday night as the slight 16-year-old in a pale blue gown walked to center stage. “She is so cute,” someone whispered.
Opponents of Nevada’s smoking ban challenged the constitutionality of the 2006 law Monday before the state Supreme Court, arguing that it should be overturned because it is vague and unfairly targets small bars and taverns.
It’s primary election day in Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Boulder City and Mesquite.
CARSON CITY — Dozens of Nevadans, including patients affected by a hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas, packed hearing rooms here and in Las Vegas Monday to support a bill that would allow for bigger lawsuit awards as a result of negligence by doctors.
RENO — First lady Dawn Gibbons accuses Gov. Jim Gibbons of extramarital affairs with the wives of two Reno doctors in divorce documents unsealed Monday by a court order.
North Las Vegas’ firefighter union has agreed to defer a 3.5 percent annual cost-of-living increase to save the financially strapped city money, officials said Monday.
CARSON CITY — Accounting changes by Nevada lawmakers created a revenue shortfall estimate of $2.2 billion that, while grim, is less than a nearly $3 billion gap to close if government services stay at current levels, the state’s budget chief said Monday.
Somewhere in the Republic of Suriname, a joker is masquerading as a judge.
A little rock history goes down at Mirage’s Bare Pool on Saturday. The original musicians in both Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros will perform together in the same space for the first time.
Local playwright Brian Kral is gifting the Rainbow Company with “The Samurai and the Shadow Princess” — a tale, based on a Japanese chamber play, about the limits of power.
The savings may seem like a drop in the bucket, but the valley’s largest water utility plans to close its offices on Fridays to offset a sharp decline in revenue.
Both sides agree that there’s something huge at stake in the court case pitting the Culinary union against the city of Las Vegas. They just don’t agree on what it is.
On Sunday, Communist North Korea fired a long-range Taepodong-2 missile over Japan, apparently defying a 2006 U.N. Security Council resolution barring the hermit kingdom from firing ballistic missiles.
Construction has resumed at Mira Villa condominiums in Las Vegas with a new general contractor and a commitment from lenders to complete the 113-unit first phase by late summer, a marketing executive said Monday.
The majority owner of the Greek Isles blamed “greedy hedge-fund guys” interested in wiping out the current owners’ equity stake for pushing the property into Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday.
Wow. Tough crowd. As executives of local power company NV Energy made their case Monday for a 16.7 percent increase in residential rates, some of the 100 or so locals attending a 1 p.m. public hearing at the Las Vegas Convention Center couldn’t contain themselves.
MGM Mirage has officially put the company’s resorts in Detroit and Biloxi, Miss., on the market.
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against M Resort, alleging unfair labor practices related to the firing of six security workers late last year.