Celebrities turned out Wednesday to donate to Darfur charities and to show their fellow stars just who the real card sharks were.
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State budget cuts that came out of the special legislative session are forcing the Clark County School District to lay off 140 support personnel, district officials said Tuesday.
Mojave Max, the desert tortoise whose emergence from his burrow was a closely watched harbinger of spring’s arrival in Southern Nevada, died of natural causes Monday, a Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman said.
Casino developer Steve Wynn has put dueling pirate ships and a faux volcano on the Strip. Now the Disney of the Desert is pursuing another passion: a mega-yacht.
For the third time in less than a year, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday held a public hearing to consider proposed changes to the state’s public defender systems.
CARSON CITY — Supreme Court Justice Jim Hardesty said Tuesday that the state’s rule on term limits for elected officials is unambiguous, agreeing with arguments that 12 years in office means just that.
A former New York police detective accused by authorities of helping the mafia commit murder was sentenced in Las Vegas on Tuesday after pleading guilty to filing false tax returns.
CARSON CITY — From the monumental to mundane, lawmakers have a lot on their minds for the 2009 session, a list of bills released on Tuesday would suggest.
It’s an outrage. It’s a scandal. It’s un-American.
Voters will be asked in November whether hotels should pay a lodging tax to offset $260 million in reduced funding for local schools expected in the next two years.
A story in Tuesday’s Review-Journal misquoted Assemblyman David Parks. A quote from Parks on Nevada’s new sex offender law should have said: “I do believe in the basic tenets of it.”
WASHINGTON — The federal railroad board has said it will consider the Department of Energy’s bid to build a nuclear waste rail line to Yucca Mountain, setting aside a Nevada protest that the application was incomplete.
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Jack Smith on Thursday defended his investigations of Donald Trump insisting that he had acted without regard to politics and had no second thoughts about the criminal charges he brought.
Though some showed support for reining in federal immigration agents, others in the valley said they feel more positive about ICE’s actions.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto touted bipartisanship as she highlighted provisions in the recent defense spending bill, which increased pay for military service members.
The Clark County Commission unanimously approved a surcharge for every telephone line to help pay for 911 infrastructure improvements.
