The same group promoting Las Vegas as an adult playground wants to make it more family friendly, at least for conventions.
Former Nevada Test Site workers on Friday marked the first National Day of Remembrance for those who were employed in the nation’s nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War.
The man who was shot multiple times this week while fleeing from a Las Vegas police officer in the northwest valley is Raymond J. Duensing, police said Friday.
Like University Medical Center, Sunrise Children’s Hospital has made policy changes for visitors because of the H1N1 emergency.
RENO — Reno police are asking more than a dozen downtown bars to close for two hours at night so nearby residents can catch some sleep.
Las Vegas police do not suspect a man whose body was found badly decomposed Friday morning near Nellis Air Force base died as a result of a homicide.
Las Vegas Army Sgt. Josue E. Hernandez-Chavez was a veteran combat soldier with six deployments under his belt when his helicopter crashed Monday, killing him and nine others from a special operations team who were returning from a fierce firefight with the Taliban in western Afghanistan.
CARSON CITY — More than 5,600 jobs have been created or saved in Nevada through President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan, according to information released Friday by the federal government.
• A story in Friday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal about the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration should have said Travis Koehler died in a poorly ventilated grease pit at The Orleans.
Initially, it was hard to believe that Sue Lowden didn’t remember the bomb found in 1981 in Harry Reid’s car. Real hard.
Notably absent from Andre Agassi‘s new book is any mention of the bitter split with former agent/manager/lawyer Perry Rogers.
Steve Wynn and Garth Brooks are wildly successful businessmen with long track records of pleasing their fans and silencing their critics. But they’re setting themselves up for failure if they think they can foil the forces of supply and demand.
A dealer’s advocacy group is asking state gaming regulators if the Wynn Las Vegas tip-pooling policy is breaking any state gaming regulations.
Economists say the national economy is showing some early signs of recovery from the recession.
Herbst Gaming is positioned to become the first Nevada casino company to emerge from bankruptcy.
Strip gaming stocks regressed in October after two months of double-digit increases in their average daily prices.
Ensign Federal Credit Union of Henderson, which serves 7,900 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is reporting that it is insolvent with liabilities exceeding assets.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Andy Dalton threw three touchdown passes, Ed Wesley scored running and catching the ball and the TCU defense smothered UNLV to get its first shutout of the season, 41-0, today. … It was another dominating performance for the eighth-ranked Horned Frogs (8-0, 4-0 Mountain West). … UNLV (3-6, 1-4) managed only 160 yards, 40 of it coming on a run by backup quarterback Mike Clausen, and was shut out for the first time in 69 games — since losing 7-0 to San Diego State on Nov. 8, 2003.