The patrol said two Denio residents were killed in a rollover on Nevada 140, 90 miles northwest of Winnemucca, and an Idaho man was killed in another rollover Thursday, this one on U.S. 93 south ...
Southern California Edison asked the California Public Utilities Commission to support keeping the 35-year-old Mohave Generating Station open while it installs pollution-control equipment required under a 1999 federal court agreement.
Clever meets clever. In his announcement speech Thursday that he was a Democratic candidate for governor, Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson wryly noted the similarity in names with Rep. Jim Gibbons, the GOP frontrunner in the ...
A shortage of tennis courts has always forced weekend tennis players here to search city parks and high schools, often in vain, for an open court. So happy have tennis players been to find a ...
It all started on Monday, when Bloomberg News reported that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Miers had told him that the Supreme Court had correctly decided two privacy rights' cases that had ...
All seven of the shows in which Van Morrison was the headliner have sold out so far this year, USA Today reports. Jimmy Buffett has sold out 99 percent of the seats for 19 shows ...
Many on both the left and the right may find it hard to believe, but the left-wing Clinton administration actually presided over a real cut in foreign aid appropriations (from $17.2 billion in 1993 to ...
I understand why he believes the way he does, but why does he have to irritate people with his arrogance? He listed the order of the universe, etc., for his belief. But he left things ...
In the 32-year history of the consolidated Metro Police Department, there has never been such contentiousness over contract talks with the cops who put their lives on the line every day.
Some prime, still-fresh leftovers from the week, with a look at Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson's entrance into the governor's race coming in Sunday's column ...
CARSON CITY -- More than 200 people enrolled in Nevada's Medicaid program will lose the subsidy they receive for the purchase of Viagra and similar drugs.
Resurfacing all 23 courts at Las Vegas' new tennis center -- work needed, officials charge, because of a botched job by the contractor -- probably will cost the city as much as $250,000, Deputy City ...
A heavy-metal song blares from a loudspeaker as the football team marches toward the field. The players stomp down a path, skinny teenagers made larger by their shoulder pads and glittering golden helmets.
The state treasury netted $6 million in profits from Powerball over that period that will be spent on general state government programs, such as education, prisons, health and environmental protection, state officials said.
"We used to have gold. Now we have gold again," said J'Ville Tavern owner Andy Gough, who was waiting to find out if she and her husband would be winners, too. The seller of the ...
The computer use occurred some time between 2003 and early 2005, they said. The five also said that Norris, while working as a lobbyist, did political work for Black but wasn't on his staff.
"Frankly, in my opinion, it doesn't make a snowball's difference," said Decker, predicting that distribution realities will force large manufacturers to work through suppliers in different parts of the state anyway.
A dominant starting pitching staff will lead the Chicago White Sox to victory in a World Series that's competitively priced on the betting line, Las Vegas sports handicapper James Kruger projects.
The association, based at Lee Canyon on Mount Charleston, is in need of a new Woodsy Owl costume. The suit is (ideally) inhabited by a small adult when the group stages public-awareness events.
Last year at this time, they were the holy trinity of up-and-coming college football coaches as Utah began making plans to crash the Bowl Championship Series' little $17 million (per participant) party.
A train loaded with chlorine or another hazardous chemical is an attractive terrorist target and poses a great safety risk even without the terrorist threat, some cities' officials believe. The fear has prompted bans of ...
Station Casinos has spent the past decade building a lucrative empire of locals casinos with its properties becoming as much a part of Las Vegas neighborhoods as churches and schools.
Juli T. Star-Alexander, executive director of the nonprofit corporation Redress Inc., said the need to hold judges accountable for their decisions will be the focus of the 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. demonstration at the ...