Government always seems to think it best knows how to run the lives of its citizens, but the marketplace consistently comes up with more efficient, less expensive responses to our needs than our elected and appointed officials. So it’s no surprise that in the realm of health care, against the backdrop of the junkyard blaze that is ObamaCare, some free-market thinking has proved extremely successful.
The past three Eclipse Awards for outstanding jockey have gone to Ramon Dominguez. Unfortunately for him, there won’t be a fourth.
The first half of the year has not been kind to Mickey Bey. But he can change his luck tonight with a win at the Hard Rock Hotel.
No, the NBA isn’t moving to Las Vegas just yet. But commissioner David Stern didn’t seem averse to the idea, which is a radical departure from his stance in 1999 when then-Mayor Oscar Goodman visited Stern at his New York office and was told it never would happen.
Sen. Harry Reid stood firm on Thursday, urging that climate change be accepted as a reality and a cause of fires that are scalding the West.
Shaun Burnside is bracing for a monthly bill he never expected. One that might force his wife to work.
All of the national attention Nate Wolters received at South Dakota State over the last few years focused on his ability to put the ball in the basket, with good reason.
OK, everybody into the car! It’s time to hit the road.
Ethan Duggan’s app career — he’s 12 years old, by the way — is off to a fast start, with “Lazy Husband,” a 99-cent app loaded with seven recorded phrases such as, “No, you don’t look fat,” “It’s beautiful,” “Uh-huh” and “You don’t look a day over 30.”
Backers of an effort to revive the historic Huntridge Theater in downtown Las Vegas on Thursday celebrated raising more than $200,000 for the cause.
An ex-lover of Liberace who was the subject of an HBO film on the pianist’s life was sentenced to probation on identify theft charges after lawyers argued over whether it was proper for him to receive drug testing at a Nevada brothel.
CARSON CITY — A sale of federally owned land in the Las Vegas area is signaling a positive turn for the region’s beleaguered housing market and economy that collapsed amid the Great Recession.
Las Vegas has issued an unusual traffic warning: If you live in the northwest valley, downstream from Kyle Canyon, watch out for super mud.
Back-to-school spending will be down in 2013, following a strong 2012.
Former Las Vegas cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo has settled her high-profile lawsuit against ex-Gov. Jim Gibbons and others, her lawyer confirmed Thursday.
A telephone call Thursday between Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and the nation’s energy secretary failed to yield a breakthrough on proposed shipments of potent uranium waste the government wants to send into the state for burial.
Hundreds of people are expected to gather for a march from the Heart Attack Grill on Fremont Street to the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse on Saturday morning to mark the week anniversary of the verdict in the case of George Zimmerman.
The Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight on Sept. 14 already had set a record for its live gate, but promoters think the addition of a championship bout between Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse to the card at the MGM Grand Garden also could break pay-per-view records.
Jesus Arevalo, the Las Vegas police officer facing termination for the 2011 shooting death of Stanley Gibson, is also facing criminal charges for a domestic incident earlier this year.
It doesn’t take much to move unemployment numbers in Nevada.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed sweeping new abortion restrictions on Thursday that could shutter most of the state’s clinics that provide the procedure, a final step for the Republican-backed measure after weeks of sometimes raucous protests at the state Capitol.
A University of Nevada, Las Vegas pilot study has found low levels of lead in four hot sauces imported from Mexico and available in Clark County.
PANAMA CITY — A former CIA base chief convicted in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect from an Italian street has been detained in Panama after Italy requested his arrest in one of the most notorious episodes of the U.S. program known as extraordinary rendition, Italian and Panamanian officials said Thursday.
A demolition company has mistakenly torn down a three-bedroom home in North Texas rather than the condemned building next door.
Once the very symbol of American industrial might, Detroit became the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy Thursday, its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and auto manufacturing.
The U.S. Commerce Department has awarded a $2.25 million grant to Truckee Meadows Community College to renovate its technology center in Reno.
A house fire near Torrey Pines Drive and Washington Avenue caused $100,000 in damage Thursday morning, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
RENO — The 27-year-old man police shot to death in Reno last week was an active-duty U.S. Army soldier who earned medals in Iraq and was on leave visiting family in Nevada.
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