Las Vegas Sun

For more than two decades, Nevadans have opposed the federal government's plans to turn the state into a nuclear waste dump, and during that time, Nevada 's congressional delegation has agreed with the people they represent and actively worked to defeat the plans.But that once-solid opposition changed with the entry of Nevada freshmen Reps. Joe Heck and Mark Amodei. Although both have said they are opposed to creating, in Amodei's words, a "nuclear landfill" in Nevada, neither one has...Read Full Story

This local high school basketball player will take college recruiters off the beaten path this winter on the recruiting trail. College coaches are a constant presence each season at local high school gyms in the Las Vegas Valley, mainly following the every move of the players from nationally ranked Bishop Gorman and Findlay Prep. They will also be at an unlikely place in the upcoming months — Desert Pines High School in northeast Las Vegas. That's because Desert Pines junior point guard...Read Full Story

Pay increases given to 42 Las Vegas city employees is raising some eyebrows as the cash-strapped city deals with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit. The city recently gave employees identified in a salary compensation study pay increases averaging $6,302 a year. The largest: $25,179 to an engineering program manager whose base annual salary is now $121,566. The smallest: a $2,291 increase to an office specialist, who now makes $48,108 a year. In total, $264,677 dollars in pay increases were...Read Full Story

The public-private partners pushing for a multibillion- dollar stadium at UNLV received a 180-day extension to develop a plan to build it without a special tax district to fund construction. The Nevada System of Higher Education 's Board of Regents approved on Thursday the extension of an exclusive negotiating agreement between UNLV and Majestic Realty to develop the $2 billion project — an open-air stadium, dorms and retail space — on the southern end of the university's Maryland Parkway...Read Full Story

Amid the worst recession in more than 50 years, the Clark County School District estimates it will need $5.1 billion (with a "b") to repair and modernize its school buildings over the next 10 years - work that was put off because there wasn't money to do it. More than $3 billion is needed to fix dilapidated schools. Nine elementary schools need to be built to alleviate crowded classrooms. And the district wants to invest nearly $1 billion in technology and equipment to prepare children for...Read Full Story