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December 31, 2009 - 10:00 pm

• A story in Wednesday's Review-Journal on a proposal to require further certification of private-sector building inspectors should have said that one county inspector in 2007 overlooked serious defects in remodeling at the Rio, prompting a scathing audit. Although the district attorney filed misdemeanor charges against Harrah's after an investigation of several casino remodeling projects, those charges were dropped and no charges were ever filed against the county inspector.

• A story Wednesday about a $750 cupcake at the Palazzo misspelled the head baker's name. It is Johann Springinsfeld.

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Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev, hosts a town hall for the Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Bett ...

Trump’s bill changed gambling tax law. Titus’ bill would change it back

August 19, 2025 - 6:30 am

Plus, a federal appellate court sided with a handful of Las Vegas casino-hotel operators in a class action claim alleging a price-fixing scheme to inflate room rates.

Cottonwood Peak Fire in Elko County ignited on August 15, 2025. (The Bureau of Land Management, ...

Cottonwood Peak Fire faces weather challenges

By Arlette Yousif / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 9:08 pm

More than 280 personnel are working to combat the flames, though they are facing high winds with gusts, and dry conditions, the Bureau of Land Management said.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford addresses the media during a press conference at the Grant S ...

Nevada AG joins group suing DOJ to stop immigration requirements on victim funds

By Claudia Lauer and Mike Catalini The Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 5:28 pm

The lawsuit seeks to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding federal funds from crime victims if states don’t cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

People enter City of Henderson Justice Facility building where Henderson Municipal and Clark Co ...

Feds say they did not intervene in Israeli official’s child sex case

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 5:47 pm

The U.S. government said that it didn’t intervene in the case of an Israeli government official arrested in an operation targeting alleged child sex predators in the Las Vegas Valley.

In an April 10, 2018, file photo, a high school principal displays vaping devices that were con ...

More Nevada students are vaping. That’s a big problem, health experts say

By Spencer Levering / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 1:13 pm

Officials said nearly one in three high school students and about one in six middle school students in Clark County reported having tried e-cigarettes.

Housing construction in the Cadence master planned community in Henderson is seen Thursday, Jul ...

Nevada housing ‘dodged a bullet’ with two bills, stakeholders say

By Patrick Blennerhassett / RJ

August 18, 2025 - 12:16 pm

The Las Vegas Valley’s long history with construction defect reform ligitation, which started in the 1990s, is still being debated today at the state level.

Conservative network Newsmax will pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

By Nicholas Riccardi Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 11:34 am

The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.

Marcos Guerra, a USPS employee, sorts packages at a distribution center in Henderson in this Re ...

Don’t scan QR codes on unsolicited packages delivered to your house, FBI warns

Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post

August 18, 2025 - 10:04 am

The FBI is warning people of a new scam involving fake packages with QR codes designed to steal data.

President Donald Trump meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at ...

Zelenskyy, Trump express hope for trilateral talks with Putin to bring end to Russia-Ukraine war

By Josh Boak and Samya Kullab The Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 1:21 pm

Monday’s hastily assembled meeting comes after the president met on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2 officers killed, 3rd is wounded in Utah shooting, authorities say

By Kathy McCormack The Associated Press

August 18, 2025 - 7:56 am

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called what happened “a terrible and tragic night.” He posted online that he joined the state in mourning the loss “of these courageous law enforcement officers.”