Taking a moment from his morning exercise routine, Bill Weidner on Monday appeared entirely at ease with his decision to resign as the president and chief operating officer of the shaky Las Vegas Sands Corp.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid said Monday he is working to form a study group to come up with alternatives to burying nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers considering an increase in the budget for the state Commission on Judicial Discipline were told Monday that the panel has spent more than expected because of the time required to deal with scandals involving Nevada judges.
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he has recommended to the White House that Daniel Bogden get his old job back as U.S. attorney for Nevada.
Months of mostly behind-the-scenes feuding at Las Vegas Sands erupted into the open Monday with the gaming company announcing that President and Chief Operating Officer Bill Weidner was no longer with the company he has led for almost 14 years.
North Las Vegas police reported Monday that officers responded to an attempted- suicide call at the home of a Nellis Air Force Base airman four months before he was involved in a murder-suicide.
SALT LAKE CITY — Opponents of a plan to take water from the Snake Valley and send it to Las Vegas are asking the Utah Air Quality Board to look at concerns the project could create unhealthful dust storms in Salt Lake and Utah counties.
CARSON CITY — Legislators were urged Monday to tighten Nevada laws to ensure that people convicted of drunken driving in urban areas attend meetings with victims or their loved ones.
CARSON CITY — After nearly seven hours of open and closed door meetings Monday, the state Senate adjourned without voting on a petition to raise the room tax rate by 3 percentage points in Clark and Washoe counties.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid on Monday revived legislation to provide full benefits to disabled veterans who must forfeit a portion of their retirement pay to collect disability.
In Monday’s Nevada section, a story about Touro University’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities misspelled the name of Nicole Cavenagh, who is the center’s director of clinical neuropsychology.
CARSON CITY — Senate Finance Committee members were asked Monday to increase part of Nevada’s marriage license fees to help preserve programs aimed at stopping domestic violence.
Dozens of people wearing red and carrying signs arrived outside the Sawyer Building on Monday to show their support for Assembly Bill 162, which would require certain insurance plans to cover treatments and therapies for autism.
A State Health Division investigation undertaken after tens of thousands of patients were advised last year to be tested for possible exposure to hepatitis C at two Las Vegas ambulatory surgical centers found that more than half of 49 other such facilities in Nevada had “infection control type deficiencies.”
The nation’s two major political parties go to great lengths to preserve their monopoly status. Among their favorite tactics: limiting the participation of third-party candidates in national debates and burdensome state laws that make ballot access difficult for those other than Republicans and Democrats.
A Goldman Sachs analyst cut the price targets of Wynn Resorts Ltd. and MGM Mirage, citing challenging market conditions in Las Vegas and Macau.
ManhattanWest had two “savior groups” that wanted to rescue the mixed-use condo project in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley, but the developer refused to talk with them and went into hiding, one of the project’s lienholders said.
NV Energy’s two power company subsidiaries said Monday that they’ve requested approval from the state’s Public Utilities Commission to begin building a $470 million electric transmission line between Northern and Southern Nevada.
Whether Boyd Gaming Corp. can complete its purchase of many of Station Casinos’ assets rests in the hands of Station’s bondholders, a local finance professor following the story said.
