WASHINGTON — The parents of Sen. John Ensign might have violated campaign finance law in giving $96,000 last year to the family of the senator’s former aide and mistress, an ethics group said Friday.
An attorney has been retained to look into security at Santa Fe Station in the aftermath of a deadly brawl that took place in the hotel lobby last month.
Michael Jackson fell in love with a local mega-mansion in 2007 that he wanted to be “his Las Vegas Neverland,” according to his real estate agent.
The kids search for ants, and they find many.
State and local unemployment soared year-over-year in June, as all but two of the Silver State’s key economic sectors shed jobs even as the labor force grew. … Joblessness across Nevada hit a record 12 percent in June, up from 6.4 percent a year earlier, according to a Friday report from the state’s Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. Unemployment jumped even faster in Las Vegas, surging to a record 12.3 percent in June. That’s up from 6.3 percent in June 2008.
The outcome of Clark County firefighters’ vote on a proposed labor contract change remained a mystery Friday.
WASHINGTON — Galloping to the aid of the nation’s wild horses and burros, the House voted Friday to rescue them from the possibility of a government-sponsored slaughter and give them millions more acres to roam.
RENO — Firefighters at the edge of the Sierra Nevada are trying to contain a pair of brush fires that have burned nearly 12 square miles near where U.S. Bureau of Land Management national director nominee Bob Abbey lives.
The H1N1 virus has claimed the life of the third Clark County resident in a month.
The secret ballots used to help fill a vacancy on the Henderson City Council won’t be secret much longer.
A cottage industry emerged after Planet Hollywood agreed to pay a whopping $750,000 fine last week, admitting it hadn’t done enough to keep Privé nightclub on the straight and narrow.
Property owners will begin receiving tax bills this week, though they are likely to be smaller than in 2008.
John Provost, a former Henderson municipal judge, died at his home on Tuesday. He was 48.
• In his Friday column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Norm Clarke incorrectly reported that San Francisco real estate mogul Luke Brugnara still owned the Monte Cristo Way residence in Las Vegas that Michael Jackson leased two years ago. Brugnara lost possession of the home in 2008 when his bank foreclosed on the property. Jasper Properties Inc. has been the owner of record since April 1, 2008.
RENO — A Reno psychiatric hospital has reached an agreement with state regulators that will allow it to remain open after deficiencies led the state to threaten closing it.
So-called “card check” legislation may be dead — and that’s good news. But Democrats in Congress continue their push to stack the deck in favor of unions desperately trying to reverse a decades-long trend of declining private sector participation.
Traffic at McCarran International Airport fell 11.4 percent in June to 3.4 million arrivals and departures.
In a new twist in the Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankruptcy case, project owner Jeffrey Soffer has sued himself, sort of.
WASHINGTON — Organized labor is nearing a deal to salvage legislation that could aid the union movement, but it had to drop “card check” — a key component of the original bill that would allow workers to form a union by signing cards instead of holding a secret ballot vote.
