Registered nurses at MountainView hospital have authorized their negotiating team to strike against the hospital if necessary, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United said Thursday.
The race to export renewable energy from Southern Nevada to California is on, with a rural electric co-op and a former Nevada governor vying for the lead.
Colorado City Town Manager David Darger is the second public official named in a 30-count indictment alleging widespread misuse of public funds.
The campaign to oust Las Vegas Ward 6 Councilman Steve Ross through a recall election will be dead before it gets to the ballot, a Ross spokesman said Thursday.
Members of the Culinary Workers Union stood outside a Subway restaurant on Thursday, passing out leaflets urging the owners of the franchise to call on Station Casinos LLC to “stop its anti-union campaign.”
SALEM, Ore. — The city of Salem, Ore., is shutting down the backyard garage sales a woman has been using to help pay her bills for terminal bone marrow cancer.
NEW YORK — Foursquare, the smartphone app that lets users check in to restaurants, bars and other places, is now letting users do the same with events.
A lawyer for hepatitis C patients suing two drug companies over an outbreak in Las Vegas told a jury Thursday that company officials purposely sold large containers of an anesthetic to clinics despite knowing it might lead nurses to reuse and contaminate the vials.
The UFC announced a landmark seven-year deal with Fox on Thursday, putting four UFC shows on the main network each year and an extensive array of programming on its cable networks. The UFC will become a prominent feature on FX, with live fights on most Friday nights and a revamped version of “The Ultimate Fighter,” the UFC’s popular reality show.
A prosecutor laid out stunning details in court Thursday about the district attorney’s suicide-arson case against indicted construction defects lawyer Nancy Quon.
MILTON, Vt. — Police in Vermont say nearly two dozen teenagers used school computers and a special email account to access indecent photos and videos taken by female classmates.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Hot sauce is a dinner table option to some parents. But to prosecutors in Alaska, forcing it on a 7-year-old boy as punishment amounts to child abuse.
The first person to contract the potentially deadly West Nile virus in Nevada this year is an 84-year-old Clark County man, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
LONG BEACH, N.Y. — A 61-year-old New York man says he lost his job as a lifeguard when he refused to wear skimpy swim trunks for the annual swim test.
PASO ROBLES, Calif. — A giant rodent native to South America has been spotted roaming in a city on California’s Central Coast.
Joseph Yorkus, 50, and James Bartczak, 49, have been sentenced and ordered to pay restitution in connection with a Nevada mortgage scam.
