Nevada has some catching up to do if it hopes to make full use of millions in federal stimulus dollars aimed at making homes more energy efficient and creating green jobs. … Of the $18.6 million in Recovery Act funds available to Nevada for residential weatherization projects, only $607,000 had been spent retrofitting about a hundred homes by the end of last month. … The slow start is a consequence of earlier disputes at the national and state level over distribution of weatherization grants.
This is sort of a head scratcher: The idea for a monorail was conceived about a decade ago by the late Bob Broadbent, who once was director of the Clark County Department of Aviation. In that position, it would seem, one might realize the importance of providing public transportation from a super busy airport to a crazy popular tourist destination.
The newest, most expensive casino-resort on the Strip opened Wednesday with fireworks, fanfare and predictions that it would reshape Las Vegas.
The advertising Web site craigslist has been a boon to prostitution locally and nationally, allowing the world’s oldest profession to flourish virtually unchecked, a new university study contends.
AS IF THE JOB DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH PERKS, Oscar Goodman decided to throw in a little something extra for the next Las Vegas mayor.
RENO — The Nevada Department of Wildlife is siding with federal land managers against a lawsuit that seeks to block the Dec. 28 removal of 2,500 horses from the range north of Reno.
Daniel Markoff’s Revolutionary War-era rifle boomed and spit powdery smoke as he fired at a target in the north valley’s new shooting park.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week for a $154 billion bill to create or save more jobs while extending unemployment benefits and insurance coverage for people out of work.
The Las Vegas Monorail, Bruce Woodbury insists, has been a success — if by success you mean a “good transportation system.”
It occurred to me midway through Mike Huckabee’s remarks on his infamous commutation of the sentence of the eventual cop-killer. I was wrong to have written that he had declined to take responsibility.
In the journalism business you work with words that convey concepts and ideas. Sometimes concrete, sometimes nebulous, often slippery.
When Las Vegas police officer James Manor died in a traffic accident this summer, after driving 109 mph without wearing a seat belt or turning on his emergency lights and siren, it was a preventable tragedy.
About the only real argument for the re-election of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is his position as Senate majority leader. But if that’s all he’s got, he hasn’t got much. No politician in America is indispensable. Or irreplaceable.
On Dec. 11, Congress passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, an odd title that shows how Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank tried to combine needed systemic reform with a mostly unrelated agenda item from the Democrats’ old wish list.
Harry Reid doesn’t believe much in chit chat. In fact, he once appeared on a late night talk show, and the host literally had to pull teeth to get him to talk.
At the beginning of “The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks,” you (a boy-knight) walk into what appears to be a house of ill-repute. There, a vixen slinks about in a bikini top and washcloth and warns you away thusly:
The sustaining members of the Junior League of Las Vegas hosted their annual holiday coffee on Dec. 12 at the home of Jill and Scott Gragson.
If you’re looking for fine words to close out the troubled 2000s, here’s a start:
When in doubt, go to the experts, we always say. And never has our rule held up so well as in our quest to learn more about one Mr. S. Claus.
A little-known oasis of natural warm springs, meandering creeks and thick stands of palm trees lies less than an hour’s drive from Las Vegas in Moapa Valley. Once a popular destination for swimming and picnics, Warm Springs became part of a national wildlife refuge in 1979, dedicated to the preservation of endangered fish and other unique native species.
It’s about that time of year for amateur photographers to take on the family portrait.
