Assistant County Manager Ed Finger is leaving Clark County for a job in Colorado.
Local governments are passing budgets for the fiscal year that starts July 1. In Southern Nevada, spending plans reflect how far governments are from sustainable operations.
Some Nevada conventions died Thursday, when the state Assembly followed the Senate in passing a pair of resolutions that would undo a couple of long-standing Nevada traditions.
The national foreclosure settlement has been a bonanza for nearly 20,000 Nevada homeowners. Between March 1, 2012, and March 31 of this year, housing relief from big banks had an average value of $97,000, either through mortgage refinancing, principal reductions or short sales, the state reported this week. No doubt, that $1.9 billion in assistance helped a lot of families hold onto their homes or escape crushing negative equity altogether.
Two announcements crossed my desk this week that remind me the best part of this community can be found in its network of largely unsung volunteer and charity organizations.
Great athletes always seem to make the right moves at the right time. For example, compare these winning moves by jockey Gary Stevens and LeBron James.
After months of playing in high-pressure baseball games, Boulder City’s Tanner Howell was at ease Thursday in the Southern Nevada Baseball Coaches Association Division I-A All-Star Game.
Oscar Goodman was leaving his book launch party Thursday when a reporter asked a member of the entourage if any former clients showed up.
Brandon Bayardi had just watched UNLV teammate T.J. White slap a fastball for an RBI single, and the slugger guessed he wouldn’t see a similar pitch.
Everything is coming so easily for LeBron James. When he records a triple-double, it seems routine. When the pressure intensifies late in a playoff game, he now shines in the spotlight instead of shrinking in it.
The Nevada attorney general’s office will investigate the potential violation and issue an opinion. If the state finds that the School Board acted illegally, not only could the appointment be voided, Skorkowsky’s contract – to be negotiated June 3 by the School Board – would also be null.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping several vehicles into the water as authorities investigated the cause of the collapse that cut off the state’s main north-south thruway and sent three people to the hospital.
Last time he played Punk Rock Bowling, he was almost done in by a beef patty.
Family, friends and colleagues honored those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Southern Nevada law enforcement at Police Memorial Park on Thursday.
A federal judge Thursday ousted a juror in the Harvey Whittemore campaign contribution trial after he was alleged to have made inflammatory comments about the defense.
A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of East Sahara Avenue and South Maryland Parkway.
Longtime Las Vegan Gray Maynard was looking for a new place to train after realizing his progress as a fighter had reached a plateau. His girlfriend of 13 years just wanted to be closer to the ocean.
The Palms on Thursday rolled out a new website, another upgrade made to the off-Strip property that has spent $50 million in the past year remodeling .
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An 84-year-old Albuquerque woman who uses an oxygen tank has been indicted for drug trafficking.
PHOENIX — The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her boyfriend in 2008.
Get your board shorts and bikinis ready, folks. Wet ’n’ Wild is about to open its floodgates.
Dr. Dipak Desai, 63, and co-defendant, nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman, 65, are on trial, facing more than two dozen charges — including second-degree murder, criminal neglect of patients, theft and insurance fraud – in relation to a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
The Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas faces challenges that aren’t uncommon, according to an independent report by two national experts released Thursday afternoon.
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