A swarm of more than 1,000 bees paid visit to the Capitol complex Monday, gathering on a small tree next to the Blaisdel Building. Buildings and Grou...
Las Vegas Now | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business
Nevada's jobless rate surged nearly half a percentage point from February to March, rising from an adjusted 10 percent to 10.4 percent. That's the hig...
Las Vegas Sun | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday, Gov. Jim Gibbons invited President Barack Obama to meet with him. In a polite letter, Gibbons said he understood Obama would be in town in...
MSNBC | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Other than The Replacements -- Roland Burris and Kirsten Gillibrand -- likely no other Democratic senator will have a bigger target on his or her back...
William Bradley | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Whitman, pushing policies that resonate on the far right of American politics even as some doubt her sincerity, has her work cut out for her in winning the governorship of blue state California.
Tara Lohan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
It takes lots energy to move, use and treat water. And it takes lots of water to cool power plants. With that thinking, things like desalination and ethanol make less and less sense.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.
ABC News | NEAL KARLINSKY and ALYSSA LITOFF | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
A woman who had just scored a precious high-paying job in the midst of a disastrous economy was willing to fly in from out of town to take it. Her ne...
Denis Campbell | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
We still do not have a final Presidential result in the state of Missouri, 14 days after the election. As was shown time and again this election, our nation's voting systems are badly broken.
Beverly Davis | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home
Is it possible that John McCain can lose his home state of Arizona? With new polls and early voting results showing the state is in play, during the ...
Albert Berger | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
The goal of these videos was to shed light on the election in contested states. Now, like so many others who have worked their hearts out, we all call it a day and hope that change arrives tomorrow.
Chidimma Ozor | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home
Paul Speirs is president of Steinbeck Communications, a Las Vegas-based public relations firm, whose clients include top companies in the gaming indus...
Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
Daly was drafted by the country's largest labor union, as part of its celebrity-centered "Guess Who's Knocking" campaign to directly involve high-profile entertainers in its get-out-the-vote efforts.
William Bradley | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
While the current party leadership deserves credit for a new path to presidential power, much of the new "Western strategy" has long been championed by former Senator Gary Hart.
Reny Monk | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
An older woman in a back brace traveled from Palm Springs to Nevada to work the phones in a campaign office there. "I will do anything to prevent that trailer trash from getting into office," she said of Palin.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home
A study published earlier this month by the William C. Velasquez Institute looked at statewide polling data and determined that, if the election were...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics
Spokespeople for Nevada's top federal and state law enforcement authorities have staked out different positions when asked whether federal officials a...
Joan and Elizabeth Cheever | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
JOAN: It began with the news of voter list purging. Ten days ago, the media identified six "swing" states as having "problems" with voter registratio...
Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
I don't think there could be anything more satisfying than using the phone to turn out a vote for Obama.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home
Sen. Barack Obama and 100,000 of his closest friends in Denver on Sunday (Reuters) Colorado "well over 100,000": record-breaking number of suppor...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
RENO, Nev. — Democratic candidate Barack Obama began his closing argument for the presidency Saturday by asking voters to look to the future whi...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.22.2008 | Home
McCain operatives say rumors of their candidate's departure from the Centennial State are greatly exaggerated. CNN's John King reported on Monday that...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- In the shadow of a statue honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., members of the majority African-American West Las Vegas community stage...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home
HENDERSON, Nev. -- The Our Country Deserves Better PAC's "Stop Obama Tour" made its last Nevada stop in a Republican enclave in Democratic-majority Cl...
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics