On the first day of April, a date well-suited for bold proclamations and practical jokes, Governor Joe Lombardo stood before the good people of Nevada, declaring that his housing bill could turn a modest $250 million into over a billion bucks worth of development. Now, that’s the sort of arithmetic that would make an alchemist…

Once upon a time in America, a man worked himself to the bone to keep his wife and new baby housed, fed, and out of the poorhouse, while the lady of the house saw to it that neither the child nor the furniture accumulated too much dust. But, dear reader, that was a simpler age.…

It was a fine April afternoon in Nevada, and the good citizens, who had just shaken off the winter chill, gathered with an old-fashioned purpose: to make a racket about their power bills. Armed with banners, voices, and a fair bit of indignation, they set upon NV Energy like a debtor sets upon a banker…

Archie Dillion was the sort of man who believed himself to be smarter than the law, the kind that figured he could slip a knife between a child’s ribs and walk away clean. But most murder cops know a truth as old as crime itself—killers come back. Whether guilt or arrogance, they find their way…

When the Walker River Paiute Tribe got wind of a taxpayer-funded $20 million grant landing in their laps, tribal leaders must have felt like a prospector who just struck gold—only to find out later it was fool’s gold and belonged to the bank. Their long-suffering water system, more patches than a riverboat gambler’s coat, was…

The Winner is Women Well, ladies and gentlemen, the great state of Nevada has finally done what it should have from the beginning—shut the barn door before all the horses turned into zebras. The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA)–after what one can only assume was an exhausting amount of hand-wringing and paper-shuffling, has declared that…

If there is one certainty in this world, crime should not pay. And if you were to ask Joel Vargas-Escobar, a high-standing miscreant in the ranks of MS-13, he might agree, provided he is in a mood for honest reflection, which seems doubtful. The FBI has plucked him from his den and set him on…

Decides Parents Ought to Know What Their Kids Are Up To After gathering dust on the legal shelf for nearly four decades, Nevada’s long-ignored parental notification law is finally making its debut, much to the satisfaction of some and the dismay of others. Starting April 30, doctors in the Silver State will have to let…

In a turn of events that will surprise precisely no one with common sense, Nye County deputies spent the better part of a day wrangling seven tigers from the property of one Karl Mitchell, a local man with an apparent enthusiasm for testing the patience of both law enforcement and large carnivores. The operation, which…

In the wilds of Kyle Canyon, where nature used to run its course and horses roamed free without so much as a by-your-leave, trouble has been brewing. It seems folks—ever eager to poke, prod, and provide unsolicited handouts—have done what they do best–made a mess of things. The seven mustangs of Kyle Canyon, including one…