Nevada retail sales are expected to increase 5.2 percent in 2013.
Stewie the Cat, the longest domestic cat in the world at more than 4 feet long from nose to tail, has died in Reno.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday that he will support legislation to levy a 0.25 percentage point increase in the sales tax rate in Clark County to hire more police officers.
Several southbound lanes of Interstate 15 will be closed from Lake Mead Boulevard to Cheyenne Avenue Tuesday night, beginning at 9 p.m. and reopening the next morning at 5:30 a.m., as bridge work on the North Fifth Street Arterial continues.
NEW ORLEANS – Superdome officials warned just months before the Super Bowl that the venue’s electrical system could suffer a power outage and rushed to replace some of the equipment ahead of the big game.
Assemblyman Steven Brooks did an about-face Tuesday and decided not to take a leave of absence from the state Legislature, Democratic leaders said.
LONDON – The structure is simple, the guitar riffs basic, the lyrics at best inane, but the Troggs’ “Wild Thing” remains a garage rock classic more than 45 years after its release made The Troggs and lead singer Reg Presley international stars.
The public is invited to attend the National Biodiesel Conference and Expo at The Mirage conference center on Wednesday free of charge.
Nevada is ranked No. 10 in the nation with 3.74 million square feet of LEED-certified green building completed in 2012, or 1.39 square feet per capita, the U.S. Green Building Council found.
DENVER – Tipoff against the Houston Rockets was an hour away, and in the bowels of the cavernous Pepsi Center, John Welch was holding two huge ice bags, one pressing the back of his neck, the other caressing his right thigh.