A month ago, several Clark County commissioners stated during a meeting that cuts in social services should be avoided, even if it means sacrificing other programs.
The Obama administration has announced a Nevada state director for rural development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For decades, tourists have paraded across Hoover Dam to admire the engineering marvel that once was the world’s largest electric-power generating station. These days, the dam is serving more as a viewpoint for a new generation of spectacular: the Hoover Dam bypass.
RENO — A huge fire that destroyed more than 200 apartments in a luxury complex under construction on the south side of town along U.S. Highway 395 was the result of arson, investigators said Friday.
Landowners suing Clark County for airspace restrictions on their properties have become like planes circling a busy runway.
President Barack Obama nominated Daniel Bogden as U.S. attorney for Nevada on Friday, more than two years after the Bush administration fired him from the same job.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons challenged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Friday to “put up or shut up” about working to stop Yucca Mountain from being used as the nation’s nuclear repository.
“Highly irregular” is how the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is describing the secret process whereby court documents have piled up for six weeks, but are viewable only by a federal judge and federal prosecutors, in a civil case involving freedom of expression for online readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
As the eastern part of the country bundles through an unseasonably cool summer, Las Vegas blazed into the record books by having the fifth warmest July ever.
Remember the collective relief of the political and public-sector classes when the Legislature wrapped up its $6.9 billion, two-year spending plan just over two months ago? That relative comfort is history, along with any prospects of the state budget remaining balanced, for either the nearly concluded biennium or the one to come.
New Jersey or Macau? That’s a question MGM Mirage might have to answer soon.
NV Energy reported slumping earnings in a wide-ranging Friday conference call that also brought talk of a possible rate drop in 2010 and word that the power company’s next general rate case will come around sooner than consumers expect.
Pop star Beyonce Knowles has danced into Las Vegas with a custom, four-night run at the Encore Theater, which ends Sunday night. Entertainment writer Mike Weatherford attended Friday’s show and reveals the multitalented singer may have a Vegas-style divahood in her future.
When: 8 p.m. today, Sunday
Where: Encore Theater, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Tickets: $279.40-$1,104.40 (770-3482)
Grade: B+
