Start with a rate increase, throw in some piping-hot summer temperatures, add a dash of customer growth and stir in some debt reduction, and you have NV Energy’s recipe for earnings growth in the fourth quarter and 2012.
WASHINGTON — Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they’ve already gotten much of both.
Ryland Homes has opened two neighborhoods with its signature rooftop deck options.
Bishop Gorman beat Centennial by a score of 69-43 to win the Nevada Division I Boys Basketball Championship tonight at the Orleans Arena.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former, seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his long-time sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, Armstrong’s lawyers said Friday.
HAVANA — Cuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying Friday that he is old and has a right to retire. But he did not say when he might do so or if such a move was imminent.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is clearing the decks of his pontificate, tweaking the rules of the conclave, finessing the religious rites used to launch the next papacy and making some eyebrow-raising final appointments before he retires next week.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House last year twice passed bills to replace automatic spending cuts now scheduled to go into effect March 1. The bills, first passed on May 10 and then in an updated version on Dec. 20, both advanced by narrow margins with no Democratic votes. They were never considered in the Senate and did not carry over to the new Congress.
HARTFORD, Conn. — A town clerk told Connecticut legislators Friday that she’s been inundated with requests for copies of death certificates of Newtown school shooting victims and believes much of that information should not be released to the public.
GOLDEN, Colo. — An 18-year-old accused of kidnapping and killing a suburban Denver school girl was on investigators’ radar before his mother called to turn him in last fall, a detective testified Friday.
Last year, I was talking with extraordinary singer Emma Hewitt about electronic dance music, and she said something I couldn’t agree with more.
Thursday’s deadly shooting and car crash on the Strip that left three people dead is just the latest in a rash of violent incidents in the iconic resort corridor in recent months.
There may or may not be too many horses on federal lands in the West but there’s not enough U.S. district judges in Nevada to deal with an appeal over First Amendment rights at wild horse roundups anytime soon.
Cirque du Soleil’s new “Michael Jackson One” show plans to tap into the pop star’s years of being hounded by tabloid journalists.