CARSON CITY — State officials will have to make steeper budget cuts or increase taxes far more than anticipated since Nevada’s economy will continue to tank heading into 2010, according to tax revenue forecasts made Friday by the Economic Forum.
CARSON CITY — A Senate panel was told Friday that a bill stepping up state record-keeping to help keep guns away from the mentally ill has been revised to deal with earlier criticism that it didn’t protect Nevadans’ constitutional due-process rights.
Usually on show nights, Danny Gans joined his band and crew for a short prayer. But on Friday night, for the first time in years, they prayed without him.
Their numbers were smaller than in previous years, but their passion for a cause was as strong as ever.
Gov. Jim Gibbons continued to beat the no-new-taxes drum Friday, and was joined by a Henderson boat retailer who said that with sales and prices down along with the economy, the government sees more money from his business than he does.
Las Vegas is not challenging a recent Fremont Street Experience free speech ruling that went against the city and will instead draft new ordinances to regulate activities such as handing out fliers or promoting a cause at the downtown pedestrian mall.
Staring out my window at home, trying to write, I saw something I’d never seen before. A pretty woman, her hair pulled away from her face, was hurling my trash bag into a Republic Services trash truck.
Master impressionist onstage, Danny Gans left lasting impressions offstage as well inside the Las Vegas entertainment community. Gans was fondly remembered by fellow performers left shocked and saddened by the headliner’s sudden death Friday at age 52.
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — The Narrows area at Zion National Park is reopening.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie withdrew his opposition to keeping the new low-level offender jail closed for a year, ending a tense tug-of-war with some Clark County leaders.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — At least one person has drowned in the Colorado River after three Arizona hikers jumped in during a visit to the Grand Canyon.
Danny Gans had just finished his show Wednesday when his manager Chip Lightman sent a text message.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Friday presented former Justice Robert Rose the first Legacy of Justice Award in Las Vegas.
An argument in an east valley apartment resulted in the fatal stabbing of a man Friday night.
RENO — The first Nevada case of swine flu touched off a panic at the Reno preschool of the 2-year-old girl who contracted the virus, the owner said.
Tours inside Hoover Dam have been suspended through the weekend while repairs are made to the elevator that carries visitors down into the structure. Visitors will still have access to the visitor center and the top of the dam.
A caption beneath a photograph for a story Friday about the USS Nevada was incorrect. The caption should have described the scene of a tug crew on the port side of the USS Nevada attempting to douse a fire after the ship was attacked at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
During each legislative session, a small army of taxpayer-funded lobbyists rolls into Carson City to demand that lawmakers direct ever-greater sums of your money to the governments and agencies they represent. This year, those lobbyists are clamoring for massive tax increases to avert spending cuts. All the while, they’re billing you for their work.
The latest reckoning of the nation’s top-selling master plans contained two surprises.
Southwest Gas Corp., a utility that provides natural-gas service for Las Vegans, reported on Friday that its earnings stayed flat in the first quarter.
Mark Wexler hasn’t worked as a table games dealer since November, when the tanking Southern California economy eliminated his job at the Pechanga Casino in Riverside County.
It may not be the best of times to show off luxury mansions in Las Vegas, considering the down housing market and an economic recession that has forced the wealthiest of the wealthy to reconsider where they’re throwing their money.
The National Labor Relations Board has ended a 10-year-old case with The Venetian, deciding to withdraw an earlier finding that the resort violated U.S. labor law in 1999 when it asked police to arrest union protesters who were conducting a sidewalk rally outside the Strip property.
Putting the brakes on the $3.1 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas project will create problems once the developer and contractors begin bringing back the work force to complete the project.