Planet Hollywood has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine to Nevada gaming regulators, admitting that resort officials were lax in policing illegal activity inside the Privé nightclub.
Henderson City Council members might have violated the state’s open meeting law by using secret ballots to narrow the field of applicants for the vacant Ward 2 seat, said Barry Smith, executive director of the Nevada Press Association.
A Las Vegas doctor who was summoned to Michael Jackson‘s suite came away convinced that intimidation by his handlers was part of their modus operandi to feed his addictions.
RENO — A domestic horse found loose in Nevada with the brand cut out of its hide is drawing outrage from equine advocates concerned about the growing number of horses abandoned in the wild.
David Ashley, who took over the University of Nevada, Las Vegas three years ago, was demoted to the faculty on an 11-0 vote Friday after a marathon meeting of the Board of Regents that was intended as Ashley’s official performance evaluation. … Higher education Chancellor Dan Klaich said the executive vice president and provost, Neal Smatresk, immediately became acting president, following protocol. Ashley, 58, will be paid his current salary, $246,000 a year, and is a tenured professor now.
A psychologist who interviewed the man on trial for shooting up New York-New York testified Friday that the defendant didn’t intend to kill anyone during the chaotic shooting.
More times than Kevin Rexford can remember, riders on sports motorcycles zoom past him, hit the gas and pop a wheelie — all on city streets.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons has named veteran state employee Robin Reedy as his new chief of staff, replacing Josh Hicks who resigned last month after 21/2 years as a senior staffer to the Republican governor.
Yes, Filadelfo Galena-Moran and Raquel Hernandez would fight about the small things, Hernandez’s son said.
You could call Friday a deadline or a day of reckoning for Clark County’s department heads.
Through 5 a.m. Sunday, westbound Summerlin Parkway, from U.S. Highway 95 to Buffalo Drive, will be closed because of the ongoing construction of the $7.9 million Tenaya Way overpass, the Las Vegas Public Works Department announced.
Clark County commissioners, after hearing emotional pleas from social services workers, told county managers to find another place to cut $9.3 million from the county budget, instead of squeezing it out of Clark County Social Services.
The Metropolitan Police Department is looking for volunteers to don a uniform and become the “eyes and ears” of the department in high-traffic areas such as the Strip and Fremont Street.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court is working on stringent new rules to ensure that lawyers continue to update their legal education.
As California teeters, Democrats are left to contemplate how this living laboratory of liberalism — with its smothering taxes, intrusive regulatory apparatus, generous social services and well-fed, heavily unionized public sector — could now find itself on the brink of collapse.
Realtors lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello thinks he has better than a 50-50 chance of getting Congress to extend the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers past its Dec. 1 deadline.
Maybe it’s the moratorium, maybe it’s the government bailout. Perhaps President Barack Obama’s loan modification program is starting to take hold.
Barring a miracle worthy of a Frank Capra script, the historic Boulder Dam Hotel won’t open for guests, diners and history buffs Sunday.
Three Wynn Las Vegas dealers are taking their claims of unfair tip pooling to federal court with a new lawsuit that claims the resort’s tip sharing policy violates federal labor laws.
The $656 million that Fontainebleau Las Vegas wants a group of banks to release won’t be anywhere near enough to complete the project, the banks argue in motions filed with the bankruptcy court in Florida.
Guests checking into the Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter will actually go down to their rooms.