The revenue-starved Las Vegas Valley Water District will cut operating expenses by $23.1 million and its overall budget by $35.6 million under a spending plan adopted Monday.
They wore khaki pants and button-down dress shirts, giving the appearance of typical white-collar crooks ensnared in an embezzlement case.
CARSON CITY — Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.
An Allegiant Air jetliner traveling to Grand Junction, Colo., from Los Angeles made an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport on Monday after pilots reported smoke in the cockpit.
CARSON CITY — A measure adding $5 to the cost of Nevada marriage licenses and official copies of marriage certificates, to help fund programs aimed at stopping domestic violence, was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Gambling revenues produced by America’s commercial casino industry during 2008 suffered their first-ever year-over-year decline as the nationwide recession took a toll on consumer spending habits.
Investigators believe road rage sparked a two-car crash Monday that slowed traffic on U.S. Highway 93 near the U.S. Highway 95 interchange, Boulder City police said.
Las Vegas and Clark County leaders Monday objected to a last-minute legislative bill amendment passed Friday that would boot them from the bargaining table during contract negotiations with Las Vegas police unions.
A headline on a brief about triple-digit temperatures in the Las Vegas Valley that appeared in Monday’s Review-Journal was incorrect. Sunday’s temperature of 102 tied the record for May 17.
Just because the economy stinks and budgets are shrinking doesn’t mean there isn’t any good news out there.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said Monday that the governor should tell lawmakers he’ll take the same pay cut that state workers face.
CARSON CITY — The Legislature on Monday began moving forward on parts of a plan to fund the state budget, passing a tax hike on businesses and a money grab from Clark and Washoe counties through the state Assembly.
Brandy Thaw experienced disappointment two years ago in a Class 4A state play-in softball game.
A short time ago, it seemed Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers were destined to waltz into the NBA Finals. A couple of missteps later, the Lakers are looking wobbly.
San Diego State coach Tony Gwynn said he will hold his ace and not use pitcher Stephen Strasburg against UNLV in today’s Mountain West Conference baseball tournament.
Each of the past two years, the team that won the boys volleyball state championship in Nevada did not win its region tournament.
Yuki Kato almost can taste a Class 3A state golf individual title.
Despite rumors to the contrary, the Wranglers will return next season for their seventh year in Las Vegas and the ECHL.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The administrator of NASCAR’s drug-testing program said Monday he personally told Jeremy Mayfield what banned substance was found in his positive test.
A public opinion poll conducted last week for the Review-Journal provided a detailed snapshot of the electorate’s views on most of the tax increases under consideration in Carson City. One indisputable conclusion can be drawn from the survey: Voters are worried about their livelihoods and don’t want to see their recession-ravaged employers hit with job-killing levies.
Another local casino property in default on its debt did not receive good news with its first-quarter earnings.
The recession will be over in October, but it won’t be the end of hard times. That’s what economist Mark Zandi told an audience of retail real estate gurus in Las Vegas on Monday.
The Fontainebleau Las Vegas funding dispute with banks has led to layoffs at the corporate level that began Monday, a spokesman for the project said.