RENO — The defeat of proposed sales tax and motor vehicle registration fee increases for school maintenance and construction could mean longer bus rides, Washoe County school officials said.
Sometimes you admire a production as much for what it doesn’t do as for what it does.
The parents arrested this weekend for leaving two of their children in a car for 30 minutes while they gambled at the Tuscany are Brian John Paynter and Shuang Chen of Las Vegas, police said Monday.
CARSON CITY — Former Las Vegas television newsman Dan Burns was named Monday as the press secretary to Gov. Jim Gibbons, whose public image and poll numbers have been battered since his election in 2006.
Two women were killed Sunday in a head-on collision on state Route 160 about one mile west of state Route 159.
A nude cabaret seems like an odd place to start a war.
It’s not unusual in a death penalty case to hear a defense attorney list the litany of sorry factors that supposedly turned his convicted client into a killer. Childhood abuse or a dysfunctional family life are two typical favorites designed to tug at jurors’ heartstrings.
Despite an earlier announcement that it would not issue any new “final” regulations after Nov. 1 except in “extraordinary circumstances” — and despite concerns raised by the nation’s bankers that the proposed regulations will be hard to obey and are not likely to work — the outgoing Bush administration appears to be racing to finalize rules to enforce a ban on Internet gambling before it leaves office.
A Gulf Coast hurricane and an emerging recession conspired to swamp Landry’s Restaurants Inc. in the third quarter, resulting in quarterly losses of $17.1 million, or $1.12 per share, for the parent company of the Golden Nugget hotel-casinos in Las Vegas and Laughlin.
A day before its 11:11 p.m. opening, the $662 million Aliante Station was abuzz with last-minute activity.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. told investors Monday it’s stopping construction on its $600 million Strip condominium tower and shelving some of its development plans in China.
The number of homes available for sale in Las Vegas has receded from last year’s peak and monthly closings have nearly tripled, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday.