George Tarkanian, son of former UNLV men’s basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, was hired Monday as Bonanza High School’s boys basketball coach.
UNLV’s football team hasn’t won a Mountain West Conference road game in four years under Mike Sanford. None. Zilch. Zero.
The top-ranked Florida Gators received flu shots this week after some players and staff came down with flulike symptoms, and fear about the possible spread of the H1N1 virus hit campus.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. agreed to pay $5.6 million in back taxes before the Internal Revenue Service was poised to take the money from his purse after his Saturday comeback fight against Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand.
Palo Verde boys basketball player Moses Morgan said Tuesday he gave an oral commitment Monday night to DePaul at the conclusion of his official recruiting visit.
The great American health care reform debate is complex and mired in politics, but a couple of things are simple.
Several dozen people demonstrated Tuesday in favor of health care reform outside the Las Vegas headquarters for UnitedHealth Group.
Last week I joined Alan Stock on his KXNT radio morning show and several callers were kind enough to call in with questions rather than dish out insults to a radio first-timer. I didn’t have all the answers — actually, I had very few — readily available and promised to address them in this column.
Your emergency regulations don’t apply, Gov. Jim Gibbons. That was the message from attorney Jacob Hafter, who said confusion over whether medical assistants can give flu shots is more than a judge can clear up at next week’s hearing on a temporary restraining order.
RENO — Washoe County officials said they expect to cut spending in the 2010-11 budget.
Changes to a health care reform bill in the U.S. Senate increased to $2.3 billion the extra money that would assist low-income residents in Nevada.
CARSON CITY — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is seeking funding to study the environmental impact that a proposed landfill near Winnemucca and tons of imported trash from California would have on Northern Nevada rivers and aquifers.
Andre Agassi had tough words for Serena Williams after her threatening outburst at the U.S. Open. Agassi and I were talking Tuesday about his upcoming charity concert on Saturday, the Grand Slam for Children, when I asked for his thoughts on Williams.
CARSON CITY — State Sen. Terry Care, D-Las Vegas, and Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea, R-Eureka, were named legislators of the year Tuesday by the Nevada Association of Counties.
RENO — The beat will go on for the University of Nevada, Reno’s marching band.
Because Durango High School was able to save its choir teachers, more choir classes are being offered.
Enrollment projections for the Clark County School District were off by more than 4,000 students this year, and public school principals are trying to salvage what they can in the face of staff reductions .
The writer of the editorial honored the past weekend at the Nevada Press Association banquet as Editorial of the Year was misidentified because of an editor’s error in the contest submissions.
Henderson’s top appointed officials have long known where they stand with their immediate supervisors, the members of the City Council. But their ultimate bosses — taxpayers — have been kept in the dark.
The problem with taxing wealth is that tax revenues tend to drop — or at least grow more slowly — when times are tough. If members of the taxpaying peasantry get laid off or are cut back to part-time wages, they’re going to reduce their spending across the board. No matter what your strategy for diverting part of those revenue streams, tax revenues are going to falter, just as a hungry cow gives less milk.