For the second straight year, Indian casinos nationwide combined for a new annual gaming revenue record, topping $28.13 billion in 2012.
Medical marijuana still makes most local elected officials nervous, despite ample political cover from voters and lawmakers alike.
Clark County School District officials and a wide range of elected officials want more tax money put into public education. They want fully subsidized full-day kindergarten for every child in Southern Nevada and expanded pre-K and early education programs. They want to hire more teachers and specialists. They want pay raises. They want to restore the system’s building maintenance budget. And, eventually, they want new capital revenue to build and renovate schools.
Gov. Brian Sandoval dropped by the Review-Journal last week for a wide-ranging discussion that eventually turned to education.
It appears Tony Gonzalez got out of football at the right time.
Centennial softball coach Mike Livreri was waiting for the right time.
Cue the Spaghetti Western music. A showdown on the track could be brewing.
Orestes Marquetti doubled home George Carmona with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to give Cheyenne’s baseball team a 5-4 win over visiting Valley on Tuesday.
Sarah Murphy’s two-run double capped a three-run rally with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning and allowed Cimarron-Memorial’s softball team to escape with a 7-6 win over visiting Coronado on Tuesday.
Sydney Land won the 200- and 400-meter dashes Tuesday to help Sierra Vista’s girls track team win a three-team meet at Durango.
Joshua Carrico won two events Tuesday to lead Shadow Ridge’s boys track team to victory in a three-team meet at Palo Verde.
It’s officially springtime in Southern Nevada, which means it’s prime time for dining outdoors. And local restaurants that have the real estate are readying for the alfresco rush.
For Carole LaRocca, who’s looking for broasted chicken on the east side of the valley, we’ve got nothin’ beyond the previously reported Chilly Jilly’z at 1680 Nevada Highway in Boulder City, which is south, but also sort of east. But for other searchers, Roberta Shulman and Evelyn Laurie reported that the St. Tropez Buffet at the Suncoast, 9090 Alta Drive, serves broasted chicken.
This Monchhof Riesling is top notch and will be wonderful in the spring weather.
Tanner Compton recorded 20 kills and 10 digs, and Braden Liu dished out 46 assists as Legacy’s boys volleyball team defeated host Coronado 16-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-20 on Tuesday.
Ty Klabacka carded a 4-over-par 40 at Legacy on Tuesday to help Green Valley’s boys golf team to a 211-238 win over Desert Oasis.
Despite patient complaints about the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas, Nevada’s U.S. senators on Tuesday attributed problems to “growing pains” and said they are not ready to join the criticism.
The industry-only Pizza Expo 2014 runs through Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is estimating the number of attendees to be 12,000, bringing a nongaming economic impact of $15.1 million to the city.
The Secret Service sent three agents home from the Netherlands just before President Barack Obama’s arrival after one agent was found inebriated in an Amsterdam hotel, the Secret Service said Tuesday.
The UNLV baseball team used timely hitting throughout its lineup and strong pitching from sophomore Kenny Oakley to wrap up a successful homestand with an 8-3 win over Utah Valley on Tuesday at Wilson Stadium.
A 13-month-old boy fell from a third-story condominium window in the northwest valley on Tuesday, Las Vegas police said.
Nevada officials are putting together a plan that could alleviate the crisis mentally ill patients are creating for Southern Nevada emergency rooms by making more psychiatric beds available in other facilities.
Rescuers slogging through muck and rain Tuesday in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a massive mudslide instead recovered two bodies and believe they have located another eight, Snohomish County District 21 Fire Chief Travis Hots said.
The financially ailing city of North Las Vegas took another big hit Friday, losing more than $4 million on a long-pending appeal rejected by the Nevada Supreme Court.
A Virginia truck driver has pleaded guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter after authorities said he collided with a disabled car in northeast Nevada and killed a couple and a tow truck driver.
Boxing judges have come under greater scrutiny in Nevada since Manny Pacquiao’s split decision loss to Timothy Bradley in June 2012. So it’s no surprise that with their April 12 rematch at the MGM Grand Garden approaching that Pacquiao was asked about the judges.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said Tuesday he will pay back his campaign more than $16,000 that was spent in 2013 to buy holiday gifts made by his granddaughter and in turn given to donors and staff.
Danny Tarkanian said Tuesday he has dropped out of the race for Board of Regents because he doesn’t want to run against a family friend.
The Nevada Division of Minerals on Friday hosted a third and final public workshop aimed at fine tuning its oversight of the controversial extraction process, in which well operators use a pressurized slurry of water, sand and chemicals to tap into deposits of natural gas and oil trapped in rock deep underground.
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