It’s not unusual for a player to want to keep the ball from his first Triple-A hit. But it is unusual when the player is a former major league All-Star in his 12th pro season.
Brisbane is 7,900 miles from Las Vegas, but the Australian city — and its basketball facility — felt a lot like home to Wink Adams on Monday.
CARSON CITY — Seven bills passed in a one-day special session of the Legislature were signed into law Monday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday began airing his second television ad in Nevada since beginning his general-election campaign.
Assemblywoman Francis Allen’s preliminary hearing on felony domestic violence charges was postponed Monday because her husband didn’t show up to testify.
In Britain, people pack arenas to watch dart championships. Some pros earn millions. Yet here in Las Vegas, we have the nation’s No. 1 female darter, and she may be famous in her sport, but she is obscure in her hometown. She keeps her day job to pay the bills.
Mobile homes crumbling like a house of cards, cars whisked away like toys, and floodwaters rising as fast as they’re rushing. These are images local officials don’t want to see this year.
Drastic budget cuts are coming to the state’s largest educational institution.
RENO — Faced with too many wild horses on the range and in holding facilities, federal officials are considering drastic policy changes that include ending roundups and euthanizing animals.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain is saying the same things about Yucca Mountain that President Bush once did, and Nevadans should not be fooled.
If certain Gaming Control Board agents are looking more tanned around the office these days, there’s surely a good reason for it.
A federal judge issued a last-minute order Monday that stopped Nevada’s new sex offender law from going into effect until constitutional challenges are resolved.
Firefighters early Monday fully contained a wildfire sparked by Saturday’s deadly plane crash on Mount Charleston.
CARSON CITY — In some rare good economic news for the state, taxable sales rose in April, though by a modest 0.3 percent, for the first gain since October.
The notebook sure filled up with small stuff during the crammed 12-hour special session last week. So I’ll dump out some of the more interesting items that didn’t make it online or into my Sunday column. First, here are three “You Know You’re in Carson City When … ” items.
On Monday, more than 50 House Republicans asked the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce required ethanol production this year, saying a law requiring a fixed amount of corn liquor be blended into gasoline sold at the pump will boost already high corn prices in the wake of recent Midwestern floods.
Although the power of the judiciary provides courts with opportunities for extraordinary mistakes, that same power delivers the means to remedy errors with relative dispatch. Witness the opening of previously sealed civil lawsuits in Clark County District Court.
Silver State Bank which held bank accounts for failed Southwest Exchange of Henderson is suing the state of Nevada, seeking to recover damages related to lawsuits over Southwest Exchange.
Poker professional Scotty Nguyen won nearly $2 million at the World Series of Poker at the Rio on Monday, topping a field of 148 players and emerging from a marathon final table with his fifth gold bracelet.
If the stock market were a casino, investors in Las Vegas gambling stocks would be the bleary-eyed guy in the wrinkled suit watching helplessly as the dealer plucks chips from the felt.
Las Vegas could become the hub of the nation’s solar thermal power manufacturing industry — or not.
A variation of an old Internet scam hit my in-box recently, and it took a bit of searching to verify my hunch that the offer was bogus.
Scratch the NBA, but add “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis to Steve Wynn’s short list — short on funds that is.