Reno-based slot machine giant International Game Technology dipped into the ranks of Microsoft Corp. to fill the company’s newly created chief technology officer position.
Luck, not the economy, sunk Nevada’s gaming industry in April.
Gamblers played lucky and the casino “hold” percentage suffered, sending statewide revenues to their seventh straight month of double-digit declines. April was also the 16th straight month that gaming revenues fell from the prior year.
We’ve all heard a lot about green jobs lately. But what exactly is a green job? When are they coming? Where can a person find one? A lot of people want to know how they can make a living while making a difference.
Summer will be here soon and so will the parade of family and friends seeking an alternative to staying in one of the area’s hotels. But before they arrive, now is the time to get your guest room in order to make sure their visit is pleasant.
Two new insect pests popped up in the last couple of weeks. One is the grape flea beetle, which chews holes in grape leaves, and the tomato hornworm, which can be spotted on anything that is soft and succulent. They will eat new growth on grapes, tomatoes, herbs and the like. The culprit that lays eggs that develop into the hornworm is the sphinx moth. Organic sprays of Dipel or any spray containing Bt will work.
Given the option, Foothill softball coach Tom Mayes would have liked to put Shelbie Medrano at shortstop and pitcher at the same time.
Like a wildfire. That’s how news travels through the hunting and fishing community.
Is it finally time for Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant to steal the spotlight — not share it — in the NBA Finals? If there will be a dominant story line the next two weeks, that might be it.
A true professional, ABC’s Jeff Van Gundy asked management if he should be taken off the network’s NBA Finals broadcast team.
When he was a kid growing up in Las Vegas, Sean Kazmar came to Cashman Field often to cheer on the Stars, then the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres.
• LAKE MEAD — Top-water action has been good in recent weeks for stripers. With shad spawning in the shallows around the Vegas Wash arm, lures imitating shad, as well as live shad, have been the baits of choice.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday delayed until late July voting on a proposed code that would allow businesses and nonprofit groups to run paid fitness activities in the parks.
Confession time. Don’t know if it’s good for the soul, but under the category of Political Predictions Gone Awry, I have been woefully wrong three times.
A union is suing Clark County because county officials reduced prosecutors’ pay raises without bargaining with the labor team.
Because of newly passed legislation, the Clark County School District will no longer have to submit architectural drawings to a public works board for review, saving the district as much as $100,000 in the construction cost of a building, school officials said.
The state’s first lady and entertainer Wayne Newton are among 56 prominent Republicans supporting the re-election of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat’s campaign announced Wednesday.
A Las Vegas couple and their company have agreed to plead guilty in connection with imported Chinese-made pet food ingredients tainted with melamine that may have killed thousands of dogs and cats in 2007.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans would be facing far more than the $1 billion in tax increases approved by the Legislature had he not hung tough on his no-new-taxes pledge, Gov. Jim Gibbons said Wednesday.