Here’s the list of winners in the Nevada Press Association 2010 “Better Newspaper Contest,” announced Saturday night at the newspaper organization’s annual convention.
For the second time in less than a year, a downtown Las Vegas casino will shut its hotel operations and send a major portion of its work force to the unemployment line.
One of Harry Reid’s latest Senate campaign mailers features a picture of a lemon on the cover and compares the ideas of his opponent, Sharon Angle, to the acidic fruit that has become synonymous with defective products.
Officials are concerned that the two-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 that is only two lanes wide might cause congestion when motorists come off the new four-lane bypass bridge, which opens in November, and hit the bottleneck.
Struggling drug addicts are taking life one day at a time in a yearlong recovery program in the Las Vegas Municipal Court called Youth Offender Court. The program began in April.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal won several top awards Saturday at the annual Nevada Press Association’s “Better Newspaper Contest,” including the general excellence award for the second year in a row.
The July 10 shooting of Erik Scott by three Las Vegas police officers outside the Summerlin Costco store has sparked new interest in changing the process for reviewing fatal shootings by police.
The Florida Tuskers gained a 27-20 victory over the Locomotives on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium in the opener of the second UFL season before an announced crowd of 9,103.
The Vandals (2-1) blew past UNLV tonight in a nonconference game in Moscow, Idaho. The Rebels scored late to avoid a shutout. The 0-3 Rebels entertain winless New Mexico next Saturday night.
