SPARKS — Sparks City Council members are asking employees to again accept a pay freeze and concede benefits next fiscal year to prevent layoffs and reduce part of a $1.7 million budget shortfall.
In giving Rachel Alexandra the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, we officially pinned the first loss on Zenyatta. And it was not a pretty sight.
Tight end was not a prominent position in previous UNLV football coach Mike Sanford’s offense. It apparently will be under new coach Bobby Hauck.
Once again the New York Jets are heavy underdogs, and their overweight coach, Rex Ryan, is running his big mouth.
His alarm clock would sound at 3 a.m., and by 5:30, Tom Smallwood would have made the 90-minute drive through Michigan to the General Motors plant in Pontiac. He would assume his spot in the assembly line and wait for the next truck to roll by. He would bolt in the seat belts, make certain the most important safety feature of any automobile was secure and await the next one. He would do this for eight to 10 hours a day, for about 400 new trucks a shift.
If the season ended today, the Wranglers would advance to the ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs by virtue of placing seventh in the eight-team National Conference.
Sierra Vista’s Teena Baxter started the season slow while recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
A messy government contract dispute that resulted in a $52 million award in late 2008 to the builder of the problem-plagued Regional Justice Center has a new twist.
A thrill seeker named Donald Schultz is living in a glass box full of snakes in front of O’Shea’s on the Strip.
A judge decided Thursday to keep a 26-year-old man in jail on a charge that he murdered his estranged wife, though no body has been found and the woman told family members she wanted to leave Las Vegas.
A pre-speech video that featured North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck as a business suit-clad gardener literally planting a “seed of hope” outside City Hall set the tone for her first State of the City address Thursday.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation is looking for unsung heroes.
Las Vegans gave more money to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, and at a faster pace, than they are so far to Haiti earthquake victims.
So far, the ranching business has not been kind to the Southern Nevada Water Authority. During the past fiscal year, the authority lost more than $628,000 on its collection of working ranches in eastern White Pine County, and officials expect to lose at least $200,000 more this fiscal year.
Nevada televisions, newspapers and radios will no doubt be flooded with even more political ads during the 2010 election season thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman sought updates from Nevada lawmakers on Thursday on efforts by Congress to attack the jobs and housing crises in Southern Nevada.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer on Tuesday made it clear Las Vegas was merely a bit player in the roundup of 21 business executives in connection with an FBI undercover sting.
In four days, an El Niño weather system has dropped more rain on the Las Vegas Valley than the area saw all of last year and topped it off with a little snow. Thursday saw the worst of it as downpours harassed motorists, closed intersections and delayed or canceled flights out of McCarran International Airport.
The film world has its Oscars, television its Emmys. From Broadway’s Tonys to music’s Grammys, a variety of awards honor outstanding artistic achievements. And now, Las Vegas’ Rainbow Company youth theater has its own national accolade: the Medallion Award from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America.
A lawsuit was filed against Cox Communications Wednesday by a man who claims he was hit in the head with a gun and robbed by a man claiming to be a Cox technician.
Police this week corrected accounts of a shootout that left a shotgun-wielding assailant and a security officer dead and a U.S. marshal wounded at a federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas more than two weeks ago.
Valley residents consumed less water in 2009 than in any year for the past decade. Just don’t ask water managers to tell you why.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid met Thursday with Sen.-elect Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican whose election this week has changed the course of Congress.
Garrick Brown told a judge Wednesday he hoped someday his family will forgive him.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus says she has a “better appreciation” of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan after visiting there last weekend to learn more about the war.
Caña Latin Kitchen & Bar has opened at Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Specializing in small plates including ceviche, (scallop ceviche with mango, mint and pomegranate seeds; mushroom ceviche with lemon, orange and truffle oil) plus sugar-cane-based spirits and South American wines and beers, it’s open from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Call 722-6060 or visit www.CanaLasVegas.com. …
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