Clark County and legislative lawyers are wrangling over how strict a spending cap is for social services as the economic slump ratchets up the demand for aid.
An air quality advisory has been issued in Clark County because of smoke from wildfires in California.
Jeremy Piven took a long pull on a fat cigar, tilted his head back and blew a slow celebratory cloud of smoke into the air.
Like a lot of Las Vegas visitors, writer Joel Stein suffered from a bad case of bitter beer face after enduring the high cost of vacationing on the Strip in recent years. And who could blame him?
CARSON CITY — The Gibbons administration and legislators continued to take swipes at each other Thursday in a partisan dispute over who should control the state’s yet-to-be-named “czar” over federal stimulus funds.
CARSON CITY — Wildlife conservation and advisory board groups are crying foul over Nevada Wildlife Commission Chairman Gerald Lent and a move they contend is geared to stifle public comment before the board elects new officers today.
A new report on the growing racial isolation at public schools in West Las Vegas was “deja vu all over again” for a community tired of hearing about the problem and impatient for solutions.
Three men on Thursday pleaded not guilty to executing and robbing two alleged drug dealers in June.
Fear is being replaced by hope for the recovery of sophomore Rebel linebacker Bryce Saldi following a skateboarding accident.
Mayor Oscar Goodman once gave a key to the city to Ron Jeremy, who proudly keeps it on display in his house. But the key is only 6 inches, Jeremy tells me and laughs.
The city of Henderson has approved a $700,000 settlement in a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the husband of an ice cream truck driver who was shot and killed last year by a city police officer.
A tour helicopter made an emergency landing Thursday at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the National Park Service said.
A 23-year-old man was arrested earlier this week and charged with sexually assaulting an intoxicated 18-year-old woman Sunday in a Mandalay Bay parking garage.
A potential water war between Nevada and Utah might end in a truce before a single shot is fired.
A Las Vegas man accused of swindling elderly residents in a real estate investment scheme handed over a $200,000 check and was given back his passport Thursday.
Gary Peck, vociferous leader of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, has left the organization after 13 years as its executive director.
Stories in Tuesday’s and several other editions of the Review-Journal gave an incorrect age for the boy who died in Death Valley National Park on Aug. 5. Carlos Sanchez was 6 years old.
Perhaps it’s fitting for a show about a dream. But the creators of "Le Reve" have grown used to working backward.
Over the past few summers, Las Vegas resorts have taken to afternoon pool parties like fashionable female sunbathers to designer monokinis.
The “$150,000 Summer Nights Scratch, Play, Earn and Win” promotion continues at the Palms every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in August. From 10 a.m. to midnight, players earning 100-2,000 base points on slots ($100-$2,000 coin-in) or 200-4,000 base points on video poker ($200-$4,000 coin-in; many machines excluded) receive a scratch card (there are five levels to choose from based on the number of points you have earned) to win cash, free slot play, free room nights, additional points, point multipliers and more.
My last column about an actress who had overstepped ethical boundaries by disrespecting the authority of backstage colleagues brought some interesting mail. The writers, who wanted to know more about backstage ethics, didn’t know much about theater, which made their correspondence even more intriguing. Maybe it’s time for a brief look at who does what (and not).
Macayo’s Mexican Restaurant opened in Las Vegas 50 years ago, in 1959. Let’s pause for a minute to think about that.
Las Vegas native and New York chef Marco Morillo will present a three-day cooking show today through Sunday in the Studio B Show Kitchen Buffet at M Resort, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Morillo will perform three demonstrations daily, at 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. There is no charge to be part of the audience, but call 797-1258 for reservations. …
Criss Angel should take hope. Shows can get better. Just don’t go braggin’ to people who bought a ticket for "Le Reve" back in 2005.
Some movies will do anything for a laugh — except decide what they really want to be.
And darkness falls upon the face of the stage. … All of the stage. … All of the scene. … All of the climax.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
He remembers waking up on the floor of his hotel. In the hall. And he sounds mildly taken aback that he remembers anything at all, his voice tinged with a kind of affable awe.