Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told a panel of state lawmakers Thursday that a hike in the local sales tax of .15 cents will fill a $30 million hole in his budget and ensure 300 current police officers continue to patrol the streets of Southern Nevada.
A home builder was convicted Thursday in Las Vegas of stealing money from a federal housing grant program in 2004.
UNLV is in discussions with Arizona to move its Sept. 7 football game from Sam Boyd Stadium to University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
Nevada lawmakers discussed a bill Thursday that would close a loophole in state law that allows teachers to pursue otherwise illegal sexual relationships with some students by either the student or employee transferring schools after meeting each other.
A salmonella outbreak traced to a trendy tapas restaurant sickened nearly 90 people so far and is considered the worst of its kind in Southern Nevada in a decade, a health official said Wednesday.
The Las Vegas police officers involved in Monday night’s shooting of a murder suspect have been identified.
A convicted slot machine cheat on Thursday became the first nominee in almost four years to Nevada’s Excluded Person List, commonly referred to as the Black Book.
Without ever mentioning the word lawsuit, mining industry representatives told Nevada legislators Thursday that if a resolution expected to lead to higher mining taxes becomes law, then they could take their case to court.
Want to take Mom out for Mother’s Day? You’ll be in good company; it’s the busiest day of the year for restaurants.
The messy lawsuit over the way Wynn Resorts Ltd. forcibly bought back the entire stake of Kazuo Okada, its former largest shareholder, has been put on hold for six months after ensnaring both sides in federal criminal inquiries.
A single penny turned out to be the difference between MGM Resorts International’s first profitable quarterly earnings since 2008 and another net loss.
One person is dead and another is in critical condition following a crash that cleaved the vehicle in two on Thursday.
The motorcyclist who was killed in a crash near Kyle Canyon Road and U.S. Highway 95 has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. blamed reduced visitation at the company’s hotel-casinos nationwide, especially in Atlantic City, for a first-quarter decline in overall revenues and a net loss.
ATLANTA — The mother of rapper Chris Kelly told authorities in Atlanta her son became sick after taking cocaine and heroin on the night before he died, according to a police report.
It’s coming up on almost three summers since Destry Abbott, the five-time national American Motorcycle Association off-road champion, was riding trails in the Flagstaff, Ariz., foothills with his 12-year-old son, Cooper, and the sunshine on their shoulders that had been filtering through tall pines turned to storm clouds. Which can happen just about any day in Flagstaff during monsoon season.
Fellas, you can’t have it both ways.
NEW YORK — Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.
Clark County master gardeners will offer a tour of the demonstration gardens at the Lifelong Learning Center, 8050 Paradise Road, at 10 a.m. May 11.
Q: I attempted to grow watermelons for the first time last summer and everything was looking good until it got hot. These tiny black specks appeared on the back of some of the leaves. I was told it was aphids but they weren’t sure. I hope you can see them clearly from the picture I’ve attached. Should I use insecticidal soap as recommended or something else?
One of my recent columns prompted a reader named Paul to write, “I want to move toward a greener lifestyle, especially want to incorporate solar. But since I am renting a house, I’m concerned there’s little I can do without installing things on a house I don’t own. Any ideas?”
It is that time of year that Las Vegans love. Temperatures are starting to climb, but they are not so high that you are forced to stay indoors all day and night next to the air conditioner.
Federal health regulators are just now deciding whether triclosan — the germ-killing ingredient found in an estimated 75 percent of anti-bacterial liquid soaps and body washes sold in the U.S. — is ineffective, or worse, harmful.
■ LAKE MEAD — While the water is warming and the shad are moving in, striper fishing remains inconsistent. Vegas Wash and Echo Bay are producing smaller stripers for anglers fishing anchovies off the bottom. Many of the fish seem to be in good shape.
WASHINGTON — It’s not a “Star Trek” tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you could almost get a complete physical — without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor’s office.
County commissioners in rural northeast Nevada say they’d rather kill coyotes than study them. Predator-control advocate Mike Laughlin, of Elko, is among those upset about a state Department of Wildlife proposal to use a $3 fee on hunting tags to help fund a $100,000 study on coyotes.
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan has checked into a rehab facility to comply with her sentence in a misdemeanor driving case, but her arrival there was not without drama.
Upheaval involving improper patient discharges at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital is affecting Clark County hospitals now struggling with an influx of the mentally ill.
