By Keith Rogers By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL Nevada's Nuclear Projects Commission accepted the resignation Monday of Bob Loux, the man who for 23 years led the state's charge against federal plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain and whose career now ends marred by controversy over unauthorized pay raises.

By Keith Rogers By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL With 70,000 to 80,000 sage grouse scampering through thickets of high desert shrubs in Nevada, a casual observer might think the chickenlike bird is hardly a candidate for listing as a threatened or endangered species.

By Keith Rogers By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL Air traffic controllers at North Las Vegas Airport scrambled Aug.

By Keith Rogers By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL The home-built airplane that plunged into a house near the North Las Vegas Airport last month had been "materially modified" before it was donated to the Salvation Army by its first builder, a Canadian pilot in San Diego, Federal Aviation Administration records show.

By Keith Rogers By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL With two fatal airplane crashes near the North Las Vegas Airport fresh on their minds, about 50 residents and general aviation pilots met Wednesday night to identify ways of avoiding future tragedies, including the creation of a community warning system for planes in distress and radar enforcement of low-flying aircraft.