Nevadans and other Westerners overwhelmingly support efforts to stop illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border, including completing construction of a border fence and penalizing employers who hire undocumented workers, according to a new regional poll.
Boris Johnson is the mayor of London and looks like the kind of guy you would want to party with.
Luring a deep pool of new residents came easily to Nevada two years ago, when job formation clocked in at 5 percent a year.
SALT LAKE CITY — Investigators had little more than ash and blackened shards of metal to sift through Sunday as they tried to figure out what caused a twin-engine plane to crash shortly after taking off, killing all 10 people on board.
Tropicana Entertainment, LLC, filed a motion in U.S. bankruptcy court to seek a better sale price for its Indiana casino, the same day two unions voted in favor of a new contract for 750 workers at the company’s Strip property.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Wayne Stewart, managing editor of The Topeka Capital-Journal, has died. He was 57.
CARSON CITY — The never-ending battle between gun control supporters and Second Amendment advocates has nearly fallen off the charts as a significant issue either in Nevada or the West, a Review-Journal poll says.
Legislation that changes retirement benefits for government workers is having a mixed impact on local governments as the deadline nears for employees to retire or lose access to a taxpayer-funded health insurance program.
Journalist Sherry Jones, 46, had worked for a decade at the Montana Missoulian when she went back to school and, in 2006, earned her bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from the University of Montana.
All that talk last week about energy at Sen. Harry Reid’s alternative fuels summit in Las Vegas sure got New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired up.
Everyone in Las Vegas has an opinion on traffic.
Nearly 1,100 workers at the new $250 million Eastside Cannery have spent the past couple weeks getting acclimated to the nuances of their new jobs in anticipation of Thursday’s opening in time for the Labor Day crowds.
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Developer Jim Letchinger is “proceeding cautiously” with construction of the $50 million Mercer condominium project on Tropicana Avenue west of the Las Vegas Beltway.
