Penn National Gaming officials spent a small portion of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call Thursday giving analysts a tour of the Strip. But the regional casino and racetrack operator wasn’t willing to tip its hand on where it might land.
CARSON CITY — The president of the state teachers union refused Thursday to support cutting teacher salaries to help solve Nevada’s $881 million tax revenue shortfall unless the cut is approved through collective bargaining negotiations.
New-home sales in Las Vegas are projected to increase to about 5,400 in 2010 and the median price should be close to $220,000 by the end of the year, a slight bump from December’s median of $216,000, housing analyst Dennis Smith said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday defended the decision to terminate the Yucca Mountain program, telling senators at a budget hearing the Nevada repository plan is being set aside in a search for “better solutions.”
RENO – State agriculture officials are gearing up for an invasion of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets in Northern Nevada.
A federal magistrate in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday sentenced a Las Vegas couple to three years probation for a crime related to the importation from China of a tainted pet food ingredient that is believed to have killed numerous dogs and cats around the country.
The 70-year-old man charged in the deaths of two people after driving a car through a casino entrance in Laughlin told police he had a history of blacking out and was taking medication for seizures, an arrest report released today said.
