CARSON CITY — Their 2009 session isn’t over, but Nevada lawmakers have a relatively easy final week starting Tuesday compared with all the work they got done on the state budget, a major tax measure and scores of other bills in the preceding week.
There was a time not long ago when D.J. Johnson feared the worst.
RENO — Although her performance was a large reason for the win, Mikayda Mills was one of the last to realize the Palo Verde girls swim team had pulled off a state championship.
Jennifer Watkins knew if she kept holding Reed in check, the cavalry eventually would arrive. So the Centennial senior kept throwing and throwing and throwing.
The best place to be on a blazing hot day is in the shade.
As freshmen, Joey Rickard and Jeff Malm played key roles in Bishop Gorman’s first state baseball championship.
The first time he was recruited by UNLV, Quintrell Thomas decided his basketball future was more promising in Kansas. A year later, he had second thoughts.
When he was a teenager, Dave LaRoche spurned his two-sport scholarship to UNLV, then known as Nevada Southern, to pursue a professional baseball career with the California Angels.
Dmitriy Salita is on the verge of realizing his boxing dream. But before he gets a chance to fight for the world super lightweight title, he has one hurdle left to clear.
After watching four of his seniors fall short of Class 3A state titles in football and boys basketball this year, Virgin Valley baseball coach Boyd Wittwer sensed “some people in town were doubting their heart a little bit.”
Call it parity, call it a dilution of talent, or call it an explosion of growth in Class 4A, but whatever it is, it translates into a team state championship with the lowest score ever.
Think of this as your child’s first impression of kindergarten: You get the little one dressed all nice and sweet for the big transition from home to more formal schooling. Spider-Man backpack. SpongeBob lunch box. The works.
With a strong breeze in her face, Western junior Tierra Tyler caught her second wind and blew away the competition. She spent the weekend chasing perfection, and she found it.
The ex-Metro cop is gray-haired now, but he was a young officer once. Riding solo on patrol, he caught a hot call and responded with quick reflexes and a youthful rush of adrenaline.
Officer James Manor had his flashing lights off and his siren silenced when he plowed his speeding patrol car into a truck attempting a left turn, Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Who won? Who lost? And is it all over? Those were the questions on a sunny Saturday at the Legislature, the day after the frenzied passage of the budget and taxes.
With state spending for the next two years and tax hikes to fund it waiting for Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto, legislators don’t have the business that usually occupies them for the last week of the session, set to end June 1.The centerpiece of the budget compromise, a $781 million package of increases to existing taxes, landed in Gibbons’ office around 4:30 p.m. Friday.
WASHINGTON — The House passed an amendment last week that will allow people to bring loaded and concealed weapons into national parks and wildlife refuges.
RENO — A small plane that crashed while approaching the airport in Fallon killed the No. 2 officer at the local naval air station and his three young daughters.
In the wake of 28-year-old police officer James Manor’s death on May 7, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie has vowed to scrutinize department policies and training in a move to prevent another fatal collision.
Agassi Prep Academy, a K-12 school in Las Vegas, will soon graduate its first class. As graduates celebrate their possibilities, school officials are wrestling with their own dream — of making the school live up to its mission of serving the underprivileged.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer suffered minor injuries after going through a red light in an intersection and being hit by a car Saturday evening.
CARSON CITY — Bills to allow collective bargaining agreements to supersede state law and require hospitals to establish nursing staff levels were vetoed Saturday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
CARSON CITY — Declaring equal rights “a basic American principle,” Gov. Jim Gibbons signed into law a bill to prevent discrimination against gays and lesbians in places of public accommodations, his staff announced Saturday.
A Las Vegas police officer shot a man who was reportedly suicidal Friday evening.