Nevada Government News

Frustrated sales workers, rejoice. You no longer have the hardest sell in town. The new front-runner for the most ridiculous, laughable, are-you-kidding-me pitch in Nevada? The Clark County School District.

Pump It Up's next Bounce It Forward Playdate will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 8 for children ages 2-11. Eastbound Wells Avenue on- and off-ramps from Interstate 80 are closed this weekend as part of the Nevada Department of Transportation and Granite Construction's $72 million Design Build Project.

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When it comes to jobs, the current economic situation continues to be dire, the worst in our lifetime.

If it's dry and cold where you live, work or play, it's winter skin season, but the... Harvey Whittemore, center, cheers for the Nevada basketball team in 2007 with then-U.S. Rep.

Ann Romney took care of the thank yous. She praised the Nevada volunteers, the leaders of the state campaign and offered "a special shout-out to Dema Guinn," the wife for former Nevada Gov.

CARSON CITY The Nevada Legislature's Interim Finance Committee today approved a request from the Department of Taxation for $260,000 to hire a team of auditors to track cigarette sales to protect a $40 million a year payment to Nevada from the nation's major tobacco companies.

Tribune/Dan McGee Senator Dean Heller makes a point about his efforts to stop limits regarding access to public lands during a meeting Friday at the Peppermill.

A federal judge issued an injunction Friday that bars the Nevada Department of Corrections from serving its new "common fare" menu to an Orthodox Jewish inmate who adheres to a kosher diet.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Motorists this weekend may want to avoid the U.S. 95 southbound off-ramp to Craig Road, which will be closed until Saturday evening.

Drivers will want to avoid the Rainbow curve again this weekend. Nevada Department of Transportation crews will be closing down the 95 at Rainbow in both directions tonight so they can continue installing that high occupancy vehicle fly-over bridge.

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Following an evening with Mark Twain at Piper's Opera House last month, a jovial looking fellow handed me a Chur chill-sized cigar and ex tended a rare invitation.

Maine has been caucusing for a week now and will announce the results tomorrow. Turnout tends to be very, very low, and Paul was third there in 2008 with 18 percent, one of his best states when it was still a three-way race then.

SNAPSHOT TOPIC: Economic development OUR VIEW: Gov. Brian Sandoval's new plan for the state is a good start, but the proof will be in the good jobs that are created for jobless Nevadans.

For the more than 36 million Americans who will turn 65 in the coming decade, the best cities and towns to retire in now have a much higher bar to clear: They can't just be great places -- they have to be affordable.

"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent." "If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent." First in an occasional ... (more)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Office is letting some rural Nevadans refinance to lower their mortgage rates.

One in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV during his lifetime, and one in 32 black women will be diagnosed.

At least NPRI's criticism of government falls on Republicans and Democrats alike.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Voters express frustration at disorganization while signing in for the Republican presidential caucus at Green Valley High School in Henderson on Saturday, Feb.