Austin residents may have to boil their tap water for weeks

Nearly 900,000 people in Texas’ capital may have to boil their tap water for two weeks, an official said Tuesday, as authorities struggled to treat a water supply filled with silt, mud and debris after recent heavy rains and flooding.

Adidas exec, college basketball recruiting insiders convicted

A federal jury in Manhattan found former Adidas executive James Gatto, business manager Christian Dawkins and amateur league director Merl Code guilty of fraud charges.

Brewery and restaurant to open in southwest Las Vegas

Keri Kelli, who has two Aces & Ales locations, is getting into the brewing business. Kelli has announced plans for his first brewery at The Bend, the new retail center near the 215 Beltway and Durango Drive. Slated to open late next year, it’s expected to include a 275-seat bar and restaurant with two dog-friendly patios. Kelli says his beer will be “created and produced in ways that are as earth-friendly and sustainable as possible.” That includes recycling, composting and repurposing spent grain as animal feed for local farmers.

 
Cowabunga Bay used as Henderson rescue team’s practice grounds

The exercise Oct. 17 came after the Henderson Fire Department’s recent purchase of a $5,000 water raft that will allow them it to more easily access people stranded in high or fast-moving water. The technical team is housed at Station 82.

 
Sports Betting Spotlight: NFL Week 8

Handicapper Kelly Stewart and The Linq Hotel sports book director John Lukasik join the Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey to preview Week 8 of the NFL season.

Pro angler says now is good time to upgrade your rods, reels

Whether you enjoy fishing for trout, stripers, black bass or anything else that wriggles, there are few things as exciting as having a fish slam your top-water bait.

5 products for your Halloween party

There’s no denying Halloween is creeping up on us, so you’ll want to have your ghoulish game plan on point and in place. Since carved jack o’lanterns and spooky dry-ice mist only go so far, here are a few things to help ensure some phantomtastic fun.

Hurricane Willa weakens to tropical depression

Hurricane Willa weakened rapidly into a tropical depression on Wednesday after slamming into a stretch of beach towns, fishing villages and farms along Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm, though it continued to dump torrential rains over west-central Mexico.

Apple CEO Tim Cook supports privacy laws, warns data being ‘weaponized’

The head of Apple on Wednesday endorsed tough privacy laws for both Europe and the U.S. and renewed the technology giant’s commitment to protecting personal data, which he warned was being “weaponized” against users.

Wynn Las Vegas to stop allowing other workers to share dealers’ tips

The company’s policy, which has prompted two lawsuits, required dealers to share about 12 percent of their pooled tips with casino service team leads. A Wynn executive informed dealers the policy will end on Nov. 12.

Crowd treated to College of Southern Nevada students’ films

Violet Baldwin, a former Centennial Hills resident and film student at the College of Southern Nevada, was one of several students whose films were shown Oct. 12 at the seventh annual CSN Short Film Showcase at Nicholas J. Horne Theater on the CSN North Las Vegas Campus. Her films “Que Vida” and “Lance, Camera, Action,” about magician Lance Burton, were featured in the show.

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