Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Thursday he won’t join the “Republican scrum” of primary candidates competing for the chance to face Democrat Sen. Harry Reid, a decision that keeps him out of a rough-and-tumble contest sure to leave the winner bruised and broke.
Clark County School District Superintendent Walt Rulffes, one of four finalists for the 2010 National Superintendent of the Year, lost the honor Thursday to Superintendent Elizabeth Molina Morgan of Washington County, Md., according to an announcement by the American Association of School Administrators.
CARSON CITY — When legislators determine state government spending priorities at their special session later this month, the decision-making process will be an open one if Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford has his way.
Above-normal rainfall since mid-January has raised the water level of Lake Mead more than a foot at Hoover Dam.
For more than a decade, former Nevada Test Site workers and their survivors from the days of underground nuclear weapons testing have finally gotten what they wanted: a special status that will allow them to receive at least $150,000 in compensation without enduring tedious reconstructions of their exposures to radiation.
An ax-wielding man on a rampage in a central valley neighborhood critically wounded his disabled sister-in-law before severely injuring a woman and killing her 4-month-old son on Thursday.
Station Casinos filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday evening for the company that manages and owns 50 percent of the Green Valley Ranch Resort. GV Ranch Station Inc. is owned by Station Casinos and manages the 572-room hotel-casino.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., criticized the American Bar Association on Thursday, saying it should “get a new life” in how it rates prospective federal judges, after one of his choices got a mixed review.
It could have been a whole lot worse. Gaming revenues in Nevada fell 10.4 percent in 2009, the largest single-year decline in state history.
He was a computer’s brain wedged between a daredevil’s desire and a church minister’s gait. A thinker, a racer and a calculator but, always and forever, a gentleman.
