Now, dear reader, let me introduce you to a tale so full of sorrow and forewarning that even the most lead-headed among us might feel compelled to listen. Michelle Afshar carries a picture not for vanity, not for nostalgia, but as a testament to a loss that should not have been. The face in that…

A Horse of a Different Bureau Though the operation may unfold just beyond the borders of Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management will conduct a grand gather of free-range horses near Mono Lake, Calif. Now, one might argue that drawing a line in the dust to separate these fine equines from the Silver State is…

Some enterprising mischief-maker, perhaps feeling mighty put out about the state of the world or just harboring a peculiar distaste for electric vehicles, saw fit to set several cars ablaze at a Tesla service center in the dark and lonesome hours of Tuesday morning. The Metro police say the conflagration sparked around 2:45 a.m., drawing…

Here’s a hard pill that sticks in the throat going down. I don’t belong anywhere. Not in the town that raised me. Not in the jobs that used me up. Not in the place where I dump my keys at night. There is no tribe, no pack, nor a drunken chorus singing me home. Everyone…

If there’s one thing Nevada’s legislators have gotten good at, it’s stretching the Constitution like an old pair of suspenders until it fits whatever shape suits ‘em. The latest victim of their tailorin’ efforts is the Second Amendment, which they’ve been wringing out like a prospector squeezing the last drop from his canteen. The so-called…

How the Lawmakers Struck It Rich Now, I reckon no soul alive would be startled to hear that Nevada politicians have a powerful affinity for money, but in the 2024 election cycle, they went at it like prospectors with a brand-new claim. In a record-breaking spree of financial affection, donors heaped a staggering $17.3 million…

There is, no doubt, a kind of genius at work in the machinery of government—whether it be of a divine or infernal nature is open to debate. In the grand arithmetic of justice, one might reasonably expect that the names appearing on an official ledger of persons under investigation would, at the very least, correspond…

Nothing quite stirs the blood like a bit of excitement in a gambling house, and the good people at Circus Circus in Las Vegas had more than they bargained for Saturday evening when a fight broke out and was promptly inflated into a full-scale gunfight by way of a panicked phone call. The Las Vegas…

Pahrump’s Misused 9-1-1 The good people of Nye County have taken a newfound fancy, dialing 9-1-1 for purposes as varied as social calls and imaginary home invasions, much to the chagrin of Sheriff Joe McGill and his band of long-suffering deputies. In a modern marvel of miscommunication, the emergency dispatch lines have been ringing off…

Reno/Sparks Being Gouged Gas prices are doin’ a waltz—one step forward, two steps back, and a little twirl to keep folks dizzy. The learned scholars at GasBuddy tell us the national average has settled at a respectable $3.02, while the distinguished minds at AAA insist it’s $3.078—though on this point, a man might flip a…