The State of Nevada faces almost a billion dollar budget shortfall. The Nuclear Energy Institute says there is a solution that requires no increase in taxes or cutting programs, but it comes with one very large string attached.

The NEI says the federal government could give the state $1 billion next year, effectively erasing the budget shortfall, but the state would have to drop any objection to shipping the nation’s nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

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 Gas prices just keep going up and up around the country and here in Las Vegas. We want to know what you think can be done to help Las Vegans deal with the problem of rising gas prices.

Nevada leaders want to help you stay in your home and right now you can take advantage of resources to make sure that happens. Have you been having problems with your home? Share your stories here.

There’s no doubt sex sells in Las Vegas, but you expect to see ads for adult films in the back of a magazine — not splashed across the I-15. But a Las Vegas-based company has done just that, taking their advertising out of the seedy underbelly of the city. For more of this story, click here. Tell us what you think of this company’s advertising on billboards for the next big porn star.

Nevada Congressman Dean Heller has introduced a bill that would require all voter ballots to be printed in English only.

A provision to the Voting Rights Act requires cities and counties to provide bilingual ballots if 5-percent of the voting citizens speak little English. But Heller’s bill seeks to repeal that rule.

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Keeping your car in good repair is about more than just keeping it running, it’s about safety. Many of us rely on the recommendations of a local mechanic. To ensure we can depend on the people diagnosing our vehicles, state investigators went undercover to catch mechanics defrauding customers, one car at a time.

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The sting was commissioned as a joint effort between the Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, the State Consumer Affairs Division and the Department of Motor Vehicles.  

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One of the biggest issues today is our sluggish economy. It’s not just the housing market or rising gas prices that people are concerned about. Grocery prices are up across the board and a new poll finds many families are having a tough time putting food on the table.

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Nevada has felt the pinch of a $500 million shortfall but projections now push the Silver State’s budget deficit to around $900 million. That puts state agencies on edge as they wait to hear where the axe will fall.

Systems like the correctional facilities are saying they can’t handle any more cuts without putting safety on the line. The number crunching has been done and the cuts are going to hurt much more than first thought.

“The last several months have shown us a rather disturbing trend and it goes to show you that even the best laid plans can often go awry,” said Governor Jim Gibbons.

Gibbons says many state agencies will likely have to slash their budgets an additional 3-percent. That’s on top of the already announced 4.5-percent statewide cutbacks.

“Our state government cannot then turn to those people who are doing with less and suffering from the escalating cost of everything to reach deeper in their pocket and take more out so we don’t have to make those tough decisions,” said Gibbons.

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If you want to find something quick, you might turn to the Yellow Pages. Those massive books have pages and pages of ads connecting you with what you want. But one controversial business is being told they can’t advertise.

Talking to Bob Fisher, you get a sense he doesn’t like what he sees in the phone book, page upon page of ads for adult entertainment. Don’t be fooled, though. Fisher is no moral crusader, he’s the lawyer for the Chicken Ranch Brothel and he’s been doing it for more than 20 years.

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Harry Reid and President Bush are trying to help save people who are experiencing foreclosure issues. This new plan, Project Lifeline, may work for those of us in Nevada… or it might not. Do you think it will?