The cost-cutting plan unveiled by Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday looks more like a long-shot political gambit than a legitimate reform effort, challengers and an analyst said Wednesday.
Las Vegas police were investigating the suspicious death of a woman found Wednesday night in her apartment near Eastern Avenue and U.S. Highway 95.
An 18-year-old man confessed to fatally shooting a teenager Tuesday near Lake Mead and Jones boulevards, a retaliatory act prompted by a homicide that happened a few days prior, according to a Las Vegas police report obtained Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Confident that the third time will be a charm, a group called Nevadans for Sensible Marijuana Laws on Wednesday announced another petition drive that could lead to voters deciding to legalize marijuana.
Two people have come forward to buttress the allegations of a pregnant Las Vegas woman and her fiance who have said that Valley Hospital emergency room staff refused to help them despite the woman’s cries of agony.
U.S. senators rarely leave those jobs voluntarily. Either the voters toss them or they die in office. Voluntarily surrendering power isn’t part of their nature.
Brian Christensen noticed nothing unusual as he entered the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse shortly after 8 a.m. Monday.
Clark County prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two of six men charged in connection with the slaying of a Las Vegas police officer at his North Las Vegas home in November.
Sen. Harry Reid is holding a reservations-only forum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas today to talk about health care, a divisive subject that has contributed to his new status as ”most vulnerable incumbent” in 2010, according to a top political tracker.
The husband of an assistant U.S. Attorney in Reno has resigned from the Ely City Council after being implicated in the disappearance of money from a bank where he worked, officials in Ely said.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons issued an eight-point plan Wednesday to cut state spending by implementing reforms to the public education system that include eliminating collective bargaining and the class-size reduction program.
City of Las Vegas workers who are not represented by a union are in line to take an 8 percent pay cut in the next budget year, provided that similar concessions are reached with the city’s four bargaining units.
Nevada’s state and local government employees made an average salary of $55,657 in 2008, moving them to sixth highest in the nation, according to a study released Wednesday.
Kelly Clinton takes her Kelvis act coast to coast tonight on NBC’s “Dateline.”
Singer Donny Osmond is coming back to the airwaves as he launches a radio show on the heels of his “Dancing with the Stars” win.
In a rough-and-tumble town for hip-hop, he’s one of the survivors. Skydro’s a lifer, the opposite of a defeatist, an upbeat, invigorated presence on the mic. So what does he bring to the Vegas scene?
Las Vegas is where successful Broadway shows end up. Where many start out is La Jolla Playhouse in Southern California.
Grandma Lee played the comedy club Bonkerz before “America’s Got Talent,” and that’s where she is again today through Saturday. But everything else has changed for her.
It’s easy to forget that the celebrities we know lived private lives before they hit the public eye and, even now, continue to live everyday lives — lives that are, with the obvious differences, pretty much like ours — when they’re not in public.
Before you close the book on 2009, musically speaking, pay attention to the footnotes. By now, you’ve probably seen plenty of year-end, best-of lists, but what about all those albums that slipped through the cracks for one reason or the other? This being said, check out a few of my favorite overlooked discs of the past 12 months:
Winchester Cultural Center will host a countywide 48-Hour Dance Competition this weekend for dancers ages 11 to 19, and the public can view the results at 6 p.m. Sunday in the center’s theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
Mom might have told you not to play with your food, but the fine folks at thepancake project.blogspot.com just can’t help it. Made from — you guessed it — pancakes, submissions include a turtle, a taco dinner and a worm. Might make you look at your breakfast a little differently.
Spa Day: Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian and at The Palazzo invites guests to banish the winter blues and say farewell to dull, dry winter skin with its lineup of New Year, New You warming renewal treatments, all using beneficial natural essences. In addition to individual treatments, special packages of multiple treatments include breakfast or lunch at Canyon Ranch Grill and access to the Aquavana thermal suite. Canyon Ranch SpaClub’s New Year, New You renewal treatments range from $160-$285. Call 414-3600 for more information.
You made the weight loss resolution every year for the past decade. It’s time for new goals. The kind that you actually have a chance of accomplishing and might even enjoy working toward. We’re talking resolutions that deal with your two favorite subjects: fashion and beauty.
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