Las Vegas has moved a step closer to its first taxi drivers’ strike in decades after drivers resoundingly rejected a second contract offer from Yellow Checker Star Transportation.
A suspicious item that was found Tuesday afternoon near a high-security area of the Nevada National Security Site prompted a response from emergency crews and law enforcement officials, a government agency authority said.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said Tuesday the cost of his proposal to include photos of voters in election poll books used at polling places to prevent fraud is $787,200, far less than originally estimated.
On the court, UNLV center Khem Birch is a lot of things – a rebounder, shot blocker and improving post scorer, to name a few.
After years of taking in people’s unwanted pets, the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center at the valley’s southwestern edge is desperately trying to get out of the shelter business.
Most state museums would be open at least one more day a week under Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed $6.55 billion proposed budget, Nevada legislators were told Tuesday.
Despite a zoning commission unanimously recommending new attendance boundaries Tuesday that would shuffle 2,400 students among 20 southwest Las Vegas elementary schools, some members preferred no zoning changes at all to alleviate crowding.
Jody Sherman, a longtime entrepreneur who co-founded the Las Vegas-based health/kids-products website Ecomom, has died. He was 47.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid insisted Tuesday he will allow the Senate to vote on new gun controls even as he remained silent on whether he would support them personally.
The Assembly Democratic Caucus said Tuesday that it will be “business as usual” on the first day of the 2013 legislative session Monday, despite the controversy over the recent behavior of Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks.
High-rolling Las Vegas businessman Ramon DeSage has been indicted by a federal grand jury in what prosecutors say was a scheme to swindle investors out of roughly $190 million.
Continuing the trend that emerged last spring, passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport dropped slightly to finish the year.
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