The Mardi Gras Ballroom at The Orleans is located a mile from the large arenas at the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay.
CARSON CITY — If legislators need to go into a special session to deal with declining tax revenue, then citizens would prefer they cut state spending rather than increase taxes to handle the shortfall, a new poll commissioned by the Review-Journal shows.
For half of Nevadans, the debate over legislation designed to control the climate is just so much hot air. A new Review-Journal poll found that 50 percent of the state’s residents oppose federal cap-and-trade legislation that would allow the government to limit companies’ abilities to emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that some say is warming the planet. Another 42 percent of Nevadans support the legislation, while 8 percent say they’re undecided.
CARSON CITY — The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee has no legal authority to act on Gov. Jim Gibbons’ decision to spend $257,000 to hire a Clark County deputy recorder to oversee Nevada’s receipt of $2.2 billion in federal stimulus dollars, the governor and one of his top aides said Friday.
To long-time Station Casinos employees and patrons, Frank Fertitta Jr., the patriarch of the gaming company, was affectionately referred to as “Mr. Fertitta.”
Goodie bags are a mainstay of conventions, and organizers always bring extras, fearing that running out would be a convention catastrophe. But when it’s over, the swag (Stuff We All Get) isn’t of much value anymore. Or so it seemed.
A story in Thursday’s Review-Journal contained an incorrect address for Charlotte and Jerry Keller Elementary School, which will open Monday. The school is in Las Vegas.
BUENA PARK, Calif. — An ex-model found stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase without fingers or teeth was so badly mutilated that authorities had to use breast implants to identify her body, prosecutors said Friday.
It was just after 4 a.m. two years ago the last time Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio walked arm-in-arm with his girlfriend, Caren Chali.
Clark County Debt Management commissioners gave a conditional thumbs-up to a new $249 million bond program for local public schools Friday, delaying approval on $145 million of the bonds because they were skeptical about school officials’ predictions for an economic recovery in real estate and tourism.
Jasmine Fiore‘s advice to a girlfriend would eerily foreshadow the violent death of the Las Vegas model.
An 11-year-old boy died after being caught under a houseboat at Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Thursday night.
Don Carroll jokes that when he moved to Las Vegas seven years ago with his wife, Noriko, he “didn’t know a hummingbird from a pigeon.”
A key contention of President Obama and congressional sponsors of health insurance “reform” is that a health insurance “exchange” — allowing consumers to choose between private health plans with premiums artificially jacked up by government mandates, and a government program with artificially low premiums — would increase competition.
People shopping for a netbook computer should consider the new Toshiba Mini NB205, as long as they pack some headphones for when audio matters.
Auto dealers are bracing for a possible rush of last-minute shoppers before the “Cash for Clunkers” program ends Monday, but some buyers may find they won’t be able to cash in on big government rebates.
California’s slot machine market is about to get bigger.
The struggling economy’s shadow showed in July at McCarran International Airport. Data released Friday revealed that 9.3 percent fewer passengers arrived at and departed from the airport than a year ago.
