Kurt, Kyle Busch help NASCAR win advertising game

While NASCAR continues reinventing itself to look like the NFL on wheels, there’s at least one area in which stock car racing seems to have inched ahead of pro football on the high side.

Boxer Shawn Porter goes high tech to prepare for Keith Thurman

As soon as you enter Shawn Porter’s business, you’re asked — politely, yet firmly — to remove your shoes. Not every gym makes that request. But as Porter’s father and lead trainer, Kenny, points out, this is a high-performance center, not a gym.

County strives to keep voter rolls clean

It almost makes sense that the recession and Nevada’s notorious mortgage crisis would cause chaos with the state’s voter registration rolls.

Motorcyclist dead after central valley crash

A motorcyclist has died after a car crash Thursday night in the central valley, the Metropolitan Police Department said.

Caucus candidates must be advocates for affordable prescription drugs

Over the next few days, Nevadans of both political parties will caucus to choose their presidential nominee — the Democrats on Saturday, and Republicans on Tuesday in the first-of-the-West caucuses. As candidates travel the state in an effort to woo potential caucus-goers, there will be many public policy disagreements.

It’s all over but the shouting

It’s caucus time. Finally. On Saturday, Nevada’s Democrats will gather to debate the merits of their two remaining candidates and try to persuade each other that either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the best choice to lead America.

LETTERS: Democrats get just deserts in Supreme Court battle

The death of Justice Antonio Scalia leaves the Supreme Court in a 4-4 tie on remaining conservative (i.e. Republican) and progressive (i.e. Democratic) judges. Republicans are uniting on a premise of not allowing a new judge to be approved until the next president is elected and takes office, roughly 11 months from now.

EDITORIAL: GDiesel plight shows need for IRS reform

Peter Gunnerman is the kind of entrepreneur the government should be lauding. But that’s rarely government’s way, even for businesses in a politically favored industry such as clean energy.

EDITORIAL: Maine’s food stamp program merits mass replication

It sometimes feels like our leaders fail us at every turn, so it’s refreshing when government does the right thing. Take the state of Maine, for example, with its meaningful steps toward tackling a national policy problem.

FBI raids U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regional headquarters in Boulder City

Dozens of federal agents led by the FBI executed search warrants in Boulder City and in the Las Vegas Valley on Thursday in an investigation of corruption in the award of a $1 million government contract for a financial audit of Hoover Dam.

Outside spending ramps up in Nevada’s tight Democratic presidential race

Nevadans prepare: You’re in the midst of a bombardment like none other. The airwaves are flooded with political ads, and it will only continue in the days to come. Presidential candidates are visiting so often that they’re practically Nevada residents.

Woman charged in fatal Strip crash to undergo mental evaluation

Lakeisha Holloway, the woman accused of driving her car onto a busy Strip sidewalk Dec. 20, killing one person and injuring dozens of others, is scheduled to have her mental health evaluated.

 
Reid says Obama will name Scalia replacement in a few weeks

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Thursday he believes President Barack Obama will nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a little over three weeks.

MGM to delay opening of $3B MGM Cotai until ’17

MGM Resorts International said Thursday it would delay the opening of the planned $3 billion MGM Cotai until the first part of 2017 because of Macau’s struggling casino business and the planned openings of other multibillion dollar resorts in the region.

 
South Carolina congressman to endorse Hillary Clinton

U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 Democrat in the House and a prominent African-American leader, will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday, NBC News reported on Thursday.

F. Pigalle is a fun, funky and novel spot downtown

We knew we were in trouble when our server at F. Pigalle said the red wine was burgundy — which, we felt sure, wasn’t Burgundy, mainly because it’s all-you-can-drink, included with dinner, and therefore probably arrives in tanker trucks.

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