CARSON CITY — State senate Democrats on Tuesday announced they will pursue a plan to expand health care coverage to more Nevadans, including an expansion of the Nevada Check-Up program for children of low-income parents, in the 2009 session.
This week readers want an update on the construction on Blue Diamond Road; will the connection between Decatur and Silverado Ranch boulevards ever be made; and are there any plans to make the message signs on Interstate 15 accessible on mobile phones?
The 19-year-old man who died after losing control of his Acura Integra on Friday morning has been identified as Ruben Martinez of Las Vegas.
The National Park Service has closed one of Death Valley’s most well-known abandoned mines because of mounting safety concerns.
A proposed hotel and gas station on a small plot in northwest Las Vegas has residents worried and city planners concerned that a carefully crafted neighborhood plan is being ruined.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — An appropriation measure signed Monday by President Bush puts back on track an improvement project that will widen to four lanes a 15-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 leading to the Arizona approach of the new Colorado River bridge that will serve as a Hoover Dam bypass, expediting travel between Nevada and Arizona.
WASHINGTON — The House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday voted 30-19 to require federal agencies to define unlawful Internet gambling before completing regulations to enforce a ban against it.
RENO — Nevada has one of the highest high school dropout rates in the nation, and one of the lowest when it comes to college graduation rates, according to a new report.
Maybe avid Las Vegas gambler Wilson Liu is on a roll.
Members of Nevada Task Force One had one hurricane under their belts and were headed home to the Las Vegas Valley when Hurricane Ike beckoned.
If District Judge Jackie Glass had a gavel, she might have snapped it in half Tuesday.
With Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama scheduled to visit Elko and Las Vegas today, Republicans welcomed him to Nevada by hitting the airwaves with attack ads on English and Spanish radio.
Nevada isn’t investing enough in instruction for English-language learners to meet the changing needs of a growing number of students, according to a new report released today.
CARSON CITY — A $450 million state road budget for the current year was approved Tuesday by the state Transportation Board, with more than half the total going to a single freeway widening project in Southern Nevada.
Green Valley linebacker LaQuan Phillips is eager to start rehabilitation, try to walk again.
Those who have tended feral-cat colonies in the shadows can now openly feed, sterilize and vaccinate the felines without fear of being fined.
The rumor has gone global: According to the reports, Britney Spears will kick off her 2009 tour with a New Year’s Eve appearance at the Palms.
The tone of the “Click It or Ticket” public service announcements saturating local television and radio is scary enough to make drivers strap into the passenger-side seat belt as well as their own.
In recent days, the federal government has stepped in to bail out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while the Treasury Department made a contrasting decision to stand aside and let Lehman Brothers investment bank seek bankruptcy protection.
The good news: We may have solved the mystery of the whereabouts of hot dog buns like Woolworth’s used to serve, which are being sought by Sandra Ashenmil. Mike O’Brien noted that they were the New England-style split-top buns so many readers are searching for, “grilled on both sides and then the hot dog was served in it.”
Health-minded Las Vegans with vegetarian tendencies finally have someplace to eat Californian besides the Whole Foods deli.
Director Sarah O’Connell makes a serious error in judgment early in Las Vegas Little Theatre’s “Moon Over Buffalo” from which the show never recovers.
Albae Restaurant, 953 E. Sahara Ave., received 29 demerits Sept. 2. Violations included foods held at improper temperatures. GRADE: C
Corinne Price and Vito Lonardo both live in the Las Vegas Valley, and both make wine. They just go about it in different ways.
Slot machine giant International Game Technology said Tuesday it will lay off a yet-to-be determined number of employees by Jan. 5 due to the troubled economy.