Virginia Valentine guided Clark County through the most financially stormy years in memory.
A rigid budgetary cap and a union contract hamstrung Clark County commissioners who wanted to keep $7 million in social programs.
A 15-person task force that will offer ideas to Clark County leaders for handling next year’s projected budget crunch was formed Tuesday.
Thanks to a late postponement at the Clark County Government Center Comedy Club, Jay Brown gets two more weeks to work on his Rodney Dangerfield routine.
Clark County firefighters’ proposed contract change got a cold reception Tuesday from commissioners who called for more talks with the union.
Elected officials, including Mayor Oscar Goodman, and former U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan were dressed as mobsters in suits and fedoras giving their blessing to a project they hope will energize downtown Las Vegas and give tourists a new reason to visit. However, “It’s important, I think, to emphasize that this is not to glorify the mob,” Bryan said. “They weren’t fun guys at all.”
CARSON CITY — Unpaid furloughs imposed on state workers don’t apply to employees of hundreds of state licensing boards that are supported by industry fees.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — The leader of a polygamous church sect is being force-fed again in the Mohave County jail in Kingman after resuming his periodic practice of fasting while incarcerated.
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday upheld a planning commission denial that prevents NV Energy from changing a small power line running through a rural community into a major electrical utility transmission corridor.
Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man wanted in connection with a drive-by shooting that left a boy in critical condition.
A story in the Nevada section of Tuesday’s Review-Journal should have said Philip Taft was held without bail in the Clark County Detention Center.
A Clark County Detention Center inmate held on a prostitution charge is the second woman to accuse a local man of impersonating a detective and sexually assaulting her, a police report said.
Health officials are reporting two more swine flu-related deaths in Nevada.
The federal government’s star witness in a political corruption investigation, and perhaps the most controversial figure in the case, recently became the third former Clark County commissioner to land at a certain Las Vegas halfway house.
At a time of skyrocketing need, help for the poorest Clark County residents just became harder to come by.
Democrats’ plan to significantly expand the federal government’s role in the health care industry — legislation that would pave the way for a public sector takeover of American medicine — has inspired passionate activism among much of the populace, and outright panic in others.
Traveling the television talk-show circuit last weekend, Barack Obama’s aides and advisers tested the waters for likely public response should the new president completely gut his campaign pledge to middle-class Americans that, “You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”
You can keep the calories at or below three digits without breaking the bank.
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, 6569 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 18 demerits July 21. Violations included tuna cans stored in dry storage area instead of cooler for prechilled tuna. GRADE: B
Today’s bit of trivia: In case you didn’t know, the HP in HP Sauce stands for Britain’s Houses of Parliament (which explains the illustration on the bottle’s label). More to the point: In response to a query from Terri Hohl, readers say it’s readily available in Las Vegas.
A new, high-end pizza joint aims for a slice of the valley’s thin-crust pie. Ciao Ciao Apizza Angelato says it uses highest-quality imported Italian ingredients — including tomatoes and flour from the hillsides of Napoli.
In a surprise hearing, Joe Milanowski, a former owner of USA Capital, which failed owing $962 million to investors, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of wire fraud.
Las Vegas’ pro baseball team sold 3,000 full and miniplan season tickets this year and paid attendance has averaged about 4,700 a game, on par with last year. The team is on pace for attendance of 340,000 to 360,000.
Local natural gas utility Southwest Gas posted a loss in the second quarter, but that loss narrowed compared with the same quarter a year earlier.