Joni Sledge, who with her sisters recorded the enduring dance anthem “We Are Family,” has died, the band’s representative said Saturday. She was 60.
Sunny days and T-shirt-wearing temperatures made it appear winter had made an early exit. But it’s not finished with us yet — at least in the Northeast where a powerful storm with high winds and up to a foot of snow is expected next week.
Every rule on every page is written because some polluter or other larcenous individual did something deceptive to endanger us.
This is one of the deep, deep philosophical questions of our time that can be answered only by getting all your news from Facebook.
These bills — Assembly Bill.249 and Senate Bill 233 — are about preventive health care and affordable, accessible contraception.
Annually, there are news reports that confirm the suspicions of local allergy sufferers — myself included — that each successive year brings greater suffering, more lost work time and increased medical interventions.
Don’t compromise or “moderate.” Don’t play around the edges. Either you go the “Full Monty” or just lose. Period. You can’t be partly pregnant. As soon as Republicans try to be Democrat-lite, they lose.
But so long as the left is complaining that repealing ObamaCare is “heartless” — out of concern that some people may lose coverage — the least that these businessmen can do is to address the problem of lack of coverage by starting at their own companies.
Democrats are readying themselves for that fight, but they’ll need to do more than try to redraw the map. While Democrats were basking in Obama’s sunny smile, Republicans were busy building benches of future leaders, especially at the state attorney general level, where they are now in the majority.
Of course the actions of the downshouters might be a signal instead of weakness and uncertainty, not confidence.
The odd thing is that, as of today, there is no evidence for either charge. That won’t, of course, stop the launch of multiple all-consuming investigations.
The problem is that Clark County accounts for 69 percent of students enrolled in Nevada’s public schools but the state accounts for little more than 35.5 percent of the Clark County School District’s operating budget.
These rules are too often merely a thinly veiled way for industry groups to block competition.
“Restauranteurs say they want customers to understand the consequences of higher wages on a business with profit margins of generally between 2 percent and 6 percent,” the Journal explained last week.
There simply isn’t a case throughout the entire nation where a state employee has been removed as an employee of the state under a separation of powers clause.
Nevada campaign finance records show Mr. Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, personally contributed $70,000 to five state legislative candidates in the 2016 election, all of them Democrats.
You might think the issue of gay marriage is settled in Nevada, and the United States.
UNR defeated Colorado State 79-71 on Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center to win the Mountain West tournament championship and clinch the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
New Mexico State won its third straight Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament championship with a 63-48 victory over Seattle on Saturday at Orleans Arena.
Activists are upset after taggers made their mark Friday night on the Dakota Access Pipeline protest mural in downtown Las Vegas.
Don’t forget to “spring forward” as daylight saving time in Nevada begins at 2 a.m. Sunday. At that hour, Nevadans should move their clocks forward by one hour.
The Centennial girls track team won eight events at the Heikotter Invitational at Faith Lutheran on Saturday, running away with the team score and defending its title from the last season. Centennial’s boys team won five events to win the meet, also winning for the second year in a row.
Washoe County School District officials say they don’t plan any teacher layoffs, but 30 vacant positions probably will remain unfilled in the face of a $30 million budget deficit entering the next school year.
The Raiders need 24 votes in favor to be approved for relocation to Las Vegas, and one thing in Mark Davis’ favor is that the NFL no longer is run by its old guard.
Brendan Gaughan was supposed to be a major force in Saturday’s Boyd Gaming 300 Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his hometown track.
Joey Logano held off a charging Kyle Larson to win the Xfinity Series Boyd Gaming 300 on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service says March 1 measurements had snowpacks in the Truckee, Lake Tahoe, Carson and Walker river basins all at or above 200 percent of normal, with projections calling for stream flows well above average through July.
UNR defeated Colorado State 79-71 on Saturday to win the Mountain West tournament championship and clinch the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Ninety-seven groups participated in the 51st annual Sons and Daughters of Erin St. Patrick’s Day Parade, hosted by the city of Henderson. Groups of people, and sometimes dogs, marched together or accompanied floats down Water Street.
The UFC is back in action tonight with UFC Fight Night 106 in Fortaleza, Brazil. We’ll be live-blogging all of the action. Follow along here.