A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the lawsuit filed by former Henderson City Manager Mary Kay Peck over the city’s decision to fire her.
Las Vegas water officials have reached a settlement with a Lincoln County ranch company that challenged plans to siphon groundwater from across eastern Nevada.
If Garth Brooks and Steve Wynn had anything close to a sticking point, ticket prices might have been the issue.
RENO — A Nevada priest has sued the Diocese of Reno and its bishop, alleging he was unjustly fired after he obtained a protective order against a deacon he thinks made a death threat against him.
The Kardashians are in town today to celebrate Kim’s 29th birthday at The Venetian’s club Tao and to shoot video for their E! reality show.
Former state Sen. Bob Beers claims he’s retired from politics, but he has offered his expertise as a certified public accountant to Republican U.S. Senate candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Amodei.
CARSON CITY — With the U.S. Olympic Committee deciding against selecting any American city Thursday to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, Jon Killoran’s job became changing the year on his publicity handouts.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority hopes to squeeze a little extra water from the sky by reviving a cloud-seeding program doomed by state budget cuts.
If the Nevada Youth Legislature has its way, the age for compulsory school attendance will go from 18 to 16.
Las Vegas Fire Chief Greg Gammon has been the face of the Fire Department many times, but Thursday was the first time he’s been the face of the H1N1 FluMist vaccine.
The man accused of aiding a suspect who is charged in the fatal shooting a 9-year-old North Las Vegas girl in June pleaded not guilty in District Court Thursday.
Dance meets design when Nevada Ballet Theatre opens its season this weekend with the three-piece “Timeless Innovation” featuring a balletic celebration of the life of Coco Chanel by James Canfield, who also created “Jungle,” another of the program’s pieces. Both make their Vegas premieres as George Balanchine’s “Rubies” rounds out the bill.
John Madden has been very good to Frank Caliendo. Except that Madden doesn’t seem to much care for him.
With a 90-foot cascading waterfall, red velvet walls and gilded mirrors, Tryst nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is an assault on the senses.
The first three concerts Justin Timberlake attended as a kid: The Beach Boys, who played “Pet Sounds;” Crosby, Stills and Nash; Janet Jackson, during the “Rhythm Nation” tour.
Jamms Restaurant, 1029 S. Rainbow Blvd., now serves dinner, including Asian and regular chicken pot pies, meatloaf and a steak sandwich, plus its burgers, wraps, salads and more. Dinner is served from 5 to 9 p.m. daily. …
To me, Jay Leno’s jokes have been pitch-perfect regarding David Letterman’s on-air confessions about sexing staffers and getting extorted for it. Leno hasn’t been cruel or dismissive, and that keeps Leno from looking like he’s gloating.
Bingo players can celebrate Halloween at the Plaza‘s $10,000 Bingo Spooktacular at 10 a.m. Oct. 31 There will be 15 games with a total prize pool of $10,000. Buy in is $30, extra packs are $10, and all participants receive $30 in free play and a free dauber. Seating is limited, so contact the Plaza bingo room to make a reservation.
One of my regular readers told me a few months ago that he’d had meatloaf, really good meatloaf, at a newish off-the-Strip restaurant called — wait for it — Off the Strip, and although the restaurant was kinda upscale, the meatloaf was just $10.
107.5 FM Xtreme Radio presents “Holiday Havoc ’09” at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on Dec. 11, with Alice In Chains, Dead By Sunrise and others, and on Dec. 12, with Muse, Cage the Elephant, Paper Tongues and Afghan Raiders.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Let the wild rumpus start! Of course, it’s not quite the wild rumpus that generations have shared, thanks to Maurice Sendak’s imperishable 1963 kid-lit classic, “Where the Wild Things Are.”
I’m going to be 44 in a few weeks. No big deal. But you need to know this to understand why this column is about the age of politicians.
There’s a recession on. Energy prices are down, and the official cost of living with them. Therefore, you might expect government payments that carry “cost-of-living adjustments” to be dropping, helping to ease the deficit.
On Tuesday, the state Board of Examiners, on a party-line vote, endorsed spending $500,000 on yet another study of Nevada’s tax structure.
Supermarkets are struggling locally as the recession maintains a stranglehold on the Las Vegas economy, but the registers were ringing this week at a new Korean-owned grocery store.