PALM CITY, Fla. — President Barack Obama played golf Sunday with Tiger Woods, once the sport’s dominant player before his career was sidetracked by scandal.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After backlash from customers, the producer of Maker’s Mark bourbon is reversing a decision to cut the amount of alcohol in bottles of its famous whiskey.
CARSON CITY — Authorities were searching Saturday for a coyote that killed a small dog in a popular Carson City park.
A Kingman, Ariz., high school teacher accused of kissing a male student during a drama class has agreed to resign.
RENO — About 1,000 people gathered in Reno to honor Monsignor Leo McFadden’s life and careers as a priest, chaplain and journalist.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court decision blocking a man from building a power-generating wind turbine on his residential property.
It took $750 for lawyer Christopher Stephens to settle a case with the city of Henderson, which named Stephens as one of the defendants in the city’s arena land case lawsuit against developer Chris Milam.
Was Las Vegas too sexy for the straight-laced Miss America Organization?
A reader — one of many similar — recently wrote in to complain, “They tell us that Social Security and Medicare are broken. The fact is the government used that money for wars and should have left the money in the so-called lock box. … I’m incensed that those programs are called entitlements. I paid into both, and I am entitled.”
Like most of you reading this today, I live in a neighborhood full of people who came here from someplace else.
After five State of the Union addresses by President Barack Obama, Republicans finally found a challenger who could stand and deliver a punch.
No policy issue before the Legislature holds as much promise for economic growth, job creation and an accelerated housing recovery as construction defect reform. The laws crafted to protect homeowners from the costs of shoddy workmanship have enriched lawyers and made housing more expensive, because builders have to recover the costs of their skyrocketing liability insurance premiums.
The clownish antics of Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura — a man eminently unqualified to be in armed law enforcement, elected in a down-ticket race two years ago only because his name is similar to that of a well-known local judge — have gone past the merely embarrassing. Now this is getting dangerous.
The Clark County School District’s School Performance Framework is in conflict with the state of Nevada’s framework. The district’s framework (designed by Ken Turner, a special assistant to the superintendent and an outside consultant) will cause a great deal of confusion in the community when the state releases the results of its framework.
The real question about former Clark County Commissioner Chip Maxfield’s recently ended job at the defunct Clean Water Coalition is not why he was paid a salary or consulting fees for years after the agency lost its reason to exist.
“Dead Space 3” is a truly creepy horror adventure, featuring more dead things in outer space than ever.
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Through religion Brittney Stradling finds that all things are possible.
My first column of 2012 was half-confessional, half-celebratory. An admission and shameless parade in honor of a trash TV addiction.
When unflattering Facebook photos surface, keep your chin up. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, patients are taking that advice to the operating table. Chin augmentations soared 71 percent between 2010 and 2011. Doctors point to social media as the culprit.
ATLANTIC CITY — Guests at one New Jersey casino won’t have to get out of bed to place a bet.
Peter Brock, famed designer of the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray, doesn’t have enough fingers to count the reasons why he moved Brock Racing Enterprises from Seattle to Henderson in late 2011.