Sandoval to add 10% tax on retail marijuana to help pay for programs in $8.1B budget

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday outlined a final proposed two-year budget that has something for just about everyone, from $60 million for the controversial education savings accounts to $26 million in new money for UNLV’s fledgling medical school.

3 takeaways from UNLV’s loss to San Diego State

Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 64-51 loss to San Diego State on Tuesday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.

UNLV still can’t kill the gnat that is San Diego State

This isn’t the UNLV-San Diego State matchup most have come to expect and anticipate but for one significant point: When it comes to winning time, the Aztecs can still frustrate the heck out of the Rebels.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval gives final State of the State address

Gov. Brian Sandoval heralded the “Nevada family” in his State of the State address Tuesday night and praised the cooperative efforts that set the state on a course toward prosperity from the depths recession.

Teen suspect in killing of Chaparral grad surrenders in Las Vegas with mother

Las Vegas police said the 17-year-old suspect wanted in connection with the death of former Chaparral football star Richard Nelson late Saturday surrendered Tuesday, along with his mother, who was reportedly wanted on an accessory charge.

Nevada lawmakers agree on education funding, not ESAs

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s final State of the State speech gave lawmakers plenty of places for common ground, from more education funding to a new veterans home in Northern Nevada. Nevertheless, battle lines are forming.

UNLV falls to San Diego State, 64-51

The weakest San Diego State basketball team in many seasons went to the Thomas & Mack Center and didn’t play well. And beat UNLV by double digits.

LETTER: Clark County has a spending problem, not a revenue problem

Together with the generous pensions paid through the PERS system, it is wasteful and ill-conceived government spending that needs to be addressed before we push to milk more money from taxpayers.

LETTER: Populists who voted for Donald Trump made a big mistake

Triple-billionaires do not care if you lose your jobs. Out-of-control capitalism cares even less. You are being used. You are suffering for their profit lust. Mr. Trump is billionaire. Get it?

EDITORIAL: California’s bullet train boondoggle is way over budget and behind schedule

The project thus follows a well-worn pattern for mass transit endeavors that is intimately familiar to bureaucrats and public-sector empire builders everywhere: Intentionally low-ball cost estimates and exaggerate ridership and revenue projections in an effort to mislead the public and generate taxpayer support.

Beauty Bar’s new talent booker is expanding Downtown’s music scene

Patrick “Pulsar” Trout has been booking shows in Vegas since he was a kid just out of high school, when he brought coed rockers The Start to now-shuttered, all-ages music venue/coffee spot Rock N Java over 10 years ago.

5 tips to help you keep your New Year’s fitness resolutions

On Jan. 1, people flocked to gyms around the country, eager to get started on their fitness resolution. But sometimes old habits get in the way of new ones, and those goals get put on the back burner.

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