Even after he had returned to his office with an approval in hand, Bill Berdie still expected something to go wrong with his company’s attempt to win a retail concession at McCarran International Airport.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday voted against allowing North Las Vegas to flush treated sewage from its new $240 million wastewater treatment facility into an open, county-owned flood control channel. Without the channel, wastewater from the plant has no place to go.
Patients who underwent prostate biopsies by Dr. Michael Kaplan could be at risk for blood-borne diseases that include HIV and hepatitis C, the head of the Southern Nevada Health District said Tuesday. Kaplan is accused of reusing medical devices that were intended for only a single use during the procedures.
Two Japanese women who live in Las Vegas struggle with a language barrier and raw emotions to explain how their lives were affected by Japan’s triple disaster of a massive earthquake followed by a mammoth tsunami and compromised nuclear reactors at a power plant.
The promise of palm tree groves and low-priced real estate lured Alan and Katherine Ackerly across the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Nevada in 2004, where thousands of new houses beckoned brightly as any neon sign.
March is Red Cross Month, and the American Red Cross has a simple way for residents to help celebrate.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. lost two motions Tuesday to rid itself of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by the former chief executive of its Macau subsidiary, but a company attorney vehemently denied some of the more incendiary issues raised in the court case.
SEATTLE — Google Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Corp. and other U.S. technology companies are finding ways large and small to help out in the wake of last week’s earthquake and tsunami Japan. Google put together an online “person finder” database in Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese for people who are either seeking information about a missing person.
Rep. Dean Heller’s official entry Tuesday into the U.S. Senate race rolled out like a Republican coronation. GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed the congressman, sending a strong signal to potential contenders to stay out of the race to replace disgraced Sen. John Ensign.
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Aflac Inc. said Monday it has fired Gilbert Gottfried, the abrasive voice of the insurer’s quacking duck in the U.S., after the comedian posted a string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Twitter over the weekend. The tasteless tweets are particularly problematic for Aflac because it does 75 percent of its business in Japan.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Here’s a question the members of the duo The Civil Wars have been contemplating: What’s the value of a star’s tweet? For Joy Williams and John Paul White, tweets by Taylor Swift, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum and Sara Bareilles, helped drive first-week sales of their debut album, “Barton Hollow,” to levels they didn’t expect. They sold out one tour and now have a more ambitious schedule down the road. “Instantly, with one click, five million people knew our names,” White said of Swift’s tweet.