A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with the slaying of a young woman whose body was found in a back room of her apartment Sunday.
In what has become an official sign of the holiday season, the bell ringers are back.
Less than a year has passed since Three Square, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger, took over where the shuttered Community Food Bank of Clark County left off.
A program to buy and renovate foreclosed and deteriorated homes and sell them to middle-income residents drew the attention of Gov. Jim Gibbons and banking officials who met Monday at the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.
RENO — Nevada merchants saw a 5.2 percent drop in taxable sales statewide, but there were some bright spots to an otherwise dour report released Monday by the Nevada Department of Taxation.
Up in Reno, the daily Gazette-Journal believes that if reporters could get a look at e-mails Gov. Jim Gibbons has sent and received on his tax-paid e-mail account, they and their readers could gain a clearer insight into what’s been going on in the governor’s office.
To avert budget cuts that could wipe out entire academic programs, the Board of Regents next week will consider raising tuition and fees at Nevada’s public colleges and universities by 25 percent. If enacted, the increase would make one year of full-time undergraduate study at UNLV cost more than $5,600, which tops the average resident rate for all Western universities.