The Las Vegas Fire Department retirements come after allegations of unprofessional behavior and disparaging staff. One employee said department morale was “a living hell.”
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The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents heard a proposal during a Friday meeting at Nevada State College in Henderson but didn’t take action.
Southern Nevadan business leaders and elected officials discussed the state of the regional economy Friday morning at the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance’s State of Economic Development event.
A federal infrastructure bill passed last year will help address the “wildfire crisis” in the West, including at Mount Charleston, officials said Friday.
California ended the first week of March with scattered showers, downpours and snow after very dry weather in January and February that left the Sierra Nevada snowpack far below normal, renewing calls for water conservation.
Clark County added 423 new cases and 14 new deaths Friday, according to health district data. As of Friday the county reported 489,011 cases and 7,552 deaths.
Economic sanctions are crippling Russia, but more needs to be done to curtail the military invasion and aggression in Ukraine, Roman Popadiuk says.
An atmospheric mystery earlier this winter on the east side of the Las Vegas Valley has been solved.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said it has received thousands of complaints about missing or stolen mail in Southern Nevada over the last year.
A Reno developer has taken ownership of a big property south of Las Vegas with plans to demolish a closed hotel-casino and build a sprawling industrial park.
U.S. employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, another gain that underscored the economy’s solid health as the omicron wave fades.
Israel’s prime minister returned from a surprise trip to Russia where he met President Vladimir Putin and discussed the war in Ukraine. Naftali Bennett flew to Moscow on Saturday, where he met the Russian leader for three hours. The trip was made “in coordination and with the blessing” of the Biden administration, according to Bennett’s office.
The Review-Journal’s business newsletter is relaunching Monday with an improved look and new features.
The Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation released a new report Thursday showing the state’s unemployment rate is decreasing and jobs are returning.
Those targeted by the new U.S. sanctions include Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, and Alisher Burhanovich Usmanov, one of Russia’s wealthiest individuals and a close ally of Putin.
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Gov. Joe Lombardo said 90 percent of state public-facing websites are back online nearly three weeks after the cyberattack.
Steven Sotero, who was a retiree and motorcycle enthusiast, was in his 70s when he was unexpectedly hospitalized for late-stage liver disease.
A student shot two of his peers at a suburban Denver high school before shooting himself and later dying, authorities said.
The Metropolitan Police Department held a briefing Wednesday about “the current and future use” of drones to fight crime in the Las Vegas Valley.
