The Nevada Supreme Court determined Tuesday it would rule separately on the term limits case involving Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley.
Two hired guns will lobby on behalf of Clark County government and District Court judges at a combined cost of about $220,000 yearly.
A new campaign ad airing in Nevada and other states highlights Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s work to reduce the threat from nuclear weapons smuggling.
If Dennis Phillips had his way, he would have retreated to his hotel room early Tuesday morning and caught a few hours of sleep. The 53-year-old commercial trucking company manager would have then got up, put on a clean shirt, returned to the Rio and sat back down in his seat behind a growing stack of tournament chips at the World Series of Poker’s final table.
CARSON CITY — A hearing will be held in late 2009 on a bid by the main water supplier for Las Vegas for another 16 billion gallons from a valley on the state’s border with Utah.
Imagine the sound of several lawn mowers, all operating at the same time in your backyard.
CARSON CITY — District Judge Francis Doherty has scheduled an Aug. 21 management conference to allow Gov. Jim Gibbons, first lady Dawn Gibbons and their lawyers to discuss what progress has been made in their divorce case.
The dogs of recession are howling.
RENO — U.S. officials say 42 people were arrested around Lake Tahoe during a recent sweep by immigration agents.
A county task force on Tuesday released a set of guidelines for how law enforcement and child protective services are to investigate child deaths.
WASHINGTON — An emergency services director from Nevada on Tuesday sought to assure anxious members of a House subcommittee that the Department of Homeland Security and state officials are cooperating to meet the communications needs of first responders in case of disasters.
Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., posted disappointing fundraising over the past few months, taking in less campaign cash in the second quarter of 2008 than during the comparable period in the last two election cycles.
WASHINGTON — The projected costs to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, ship used radioactive fuel to Nevada from around the country and operate the site for 100 years have grown to more than $90 billion, an energy department official said Tuesday.
An off-duty sergeant with the Nevada Highway Patrol had marijuana in his system when he crashed a pickup and triggered an accident that left a woman dead last month, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.
The average parking violation in Las Vegas sets a driver back $50, which makes the current $9.8 million in unpaid tickets and fines fairly eye-popping.
Life is going to be a whole lot duller for 14 musicians who spent 18 months avoiding flying body parts while playing for “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” which closed Sunday at Wynn Las Vegas.
The mighty headache that was to be Tuesday morning’s commute after southbound Interstate 15, north of the Spaghetti Bowl, was reduced to two lanes, didn’t turn out to be a migraine.
This week readers want to know when the new Las Vegas Beltway interchange with Lake Mead Boulevard is going to open, are sound walls going to be erected on both sides of the Beltway at Desert Inn Road, and what exactly do “when children are present” school signs mean? And we learn about a personalized licence plate that will save one valley driver from being pulled over by police if O.J. Simpson makes a break for it during his upcoming trial.
It’s been barely three weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment, tossing the District of Columbia’s strict ban on handgun ownership as an unconstitutional infringement on the individual right to bear arms.
Overturning two earlier rulings, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said last week an Arizona middle school assistant principal violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old public-school student by ordering her to be strip searched to determine whether she had in her possession a prescription-strength ibuprofen.
Asian BBQ, 9700 W. Tropicana Ave., received 37 demerits June 30. Violations included food handlers observed not washing hands between changing tasks. GRADE: C
One of the clear signs of a recession is the discounting of otherwise fairly expensive bottles of wine. This Markham Merlot is usually found for about $40, but I found this classic Napa Valley Merlot at just less than $20.
We’re officially into the dog days, so here’s an idea that should provide both relief from the heat and potential savings: Haunt those air-conditioned supermarkets, taking your time to browse the aisles to see what’s new and novel and find a few bargains (I always find that hanging out by open freezer cases is a good idea). And maybe you’ll find some of the things being sought by fellow readers:
Television, movies, magazines and other popular media often get blamed for pressuring teen girls to try to be as thin as models. But a new study finds that peer pressure also plays a strong role in how adolescent girls control their figures.
Legislators in Pennsylvania want to revoke Las Vegas casino owner Don Barden’s license to run a casino in their state.