KINGMAN, Ariz. — Gregg Arnold doesn’t take offense when people tell him he has a big head.
RENO — On his historic 1843-44 expedition across the West, John Fremont named some prominent features in what became Nevada, including Pyramid Lake and the Humboldt and Walker rivers.
Officials at Clark County’s Department of Family Services are celebrating the advancement of legislation that will help improve the quality of care for foster children.
The pressure is on. The Senate is expected to vote this week on a bill that could require background checks for people buying guns at gun shows and online, not just via the country’s 55,000 licensed firearms dealers.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has transported more than 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities across the nation by Greyhound bus over the past five years, according to a published story.
Clark County commissioners are expected to decide Tuesday on a new state legislator to replace ousted Assemblyman Steven Brooks.
Remember the Ford Pinto scandal in the 1970s, when people died because Ford executives knew the car’s fuel tank was deadly, yet after a cost-benefit analysis decided it was cheaper to pay out settlements than to fix the millions of Pintos on the road?
SALT LAKE CITY — Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast as a way to grow closer to God, but Utah medical researchers want to know whether the practice also is reducing their risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Mike Ballard loves sports, and at Chaparral High School in Las Vegas he was an undersized player known as “The Spear” on the high school football team for the time he made an illegal spearing move when tackling an offensive player.
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Police were investigating the stabbing death of a man in Mesquite on Saturday night.
Some people overstep the boundaries of good business practice when they communicate by telephone and email. Not being seen creates a false sense of security.
At Houdini’s Magic Shop, shelves are jam packed with the unusual.
Starting her own business was a double win for Randi Hecht.
More than half a decade after Southern Nevada’s economy hit the skids, it’s still tough for small businesses to rustle up funding.
Penn National is not the first commercial casino company to jump into the Indian gaming market.
Adam Scott has become the first Australian to win the Masters, beating Angel Cabrera on the second hole of a playoff on a rainy day at Augusta National.
According to a published story, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has transported over 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities across the nation by Greyhound bus over the last five years.
Health Plan of Nevada must pay $500 million in punitive damages for its role in the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak, a jury decided Tuesday.
A story in Friday’s paper on mom-and-pop businesses in downtown Las Vegas reported an incorrect opening date for Globe Salon. Co-owner James Reza said he and Staci Linklater opened the business in 2000 and relocated it to downtown in 2008.
Steve Schirripa, the former Riviera entertainment director who hit it big on “The Sopranos,” is still churning out new projects.
Children are important. America’s political left and right agree on that.
The threat of lawsuits over coal-fired power plants may have played a role. But no one who’s watched Nevada politics would discount the behind-the-scenes power of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who seems curiously enamored with any number of subsidy-dependent wind and solar energy installations in our area.
It’s amazing at times to consider how much gambling the Nevada Resort Association wants to prevent, rather than to promote.
Thousands of miles of track once connected Nevada towns with the transcontinental railroads. From territorial days to modern times, at least 70 railroads operated in the state, both standard and narrow gauge. Built to move ore from mines to mills, the lines also carried freight and passengers.
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