RENO — The first Nevada case of swine flu touched off a panic at the Reno preschool of the 2-year-old girl who contracted the virus, the owner said.
Tours inside Hoover Dam have been suspended through the weekend while repairs are made to the elevator that carries visitors down into the structure. Visitors will still have access to the visitor center and the top of the dam.
A caption beneath a photograph for a story Friday about the USS Nevada was incorrect. The caption should have described the scene of a tug crew on the port side of the USS Nevada attempting to douse a fire after the ship was attacked at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
During each legislative session, a small army of taxpayer-funded lobbyists rolls into Carson City to demand that lawmakers direct ever-greater sums of your money to the governments and agencies they represent. This year, those lobbyists are clamoring for massive tax increases to avert spending cuts. All the while, they’re billing you for their work.
The latest reckoning of the nation’s top-selling master plans contained two surprises.
Southwest Gas Corp., a utility that provides natural-gas service for Las Vegans, reported on Friday that its earnings stayed flat in the first quarter.
Mark Wexler hasn’t worked as a table games dealer since November, when the tanking Southern California economy eliminated his job at the Pechanga Casino in Riverside County.
It may not be the best of times to show off luxury mansions in Las Vegas, considering the down housing market and an economic recession that has forced the wealthiest of the wealthy to reconsider where they’re throwing their money.
The National Labor Relations Board has ended a 10-year-old case with The Venetian, deciding to withdraw an earlier finding that the resort violated U.S. labor law in 1999 when it asked police to arrest union protesters who were conducting a sidewalk rally outside the Strip property.
Putting the brakes on the $3.1 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas project will create problems once the developer and contractors begin bringing back the work force to complete the project.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Manny Pacquiao was dominating. Ricky Hatton was left helpless.
Pacquiao cemented his claim to being the best pound-for-pound boxer tonight with a spectacular performance that ended with Hatton sprawled out on the canvas after a devastating left hand to the head late in the second round.
