Federal and local law enforcement officers raided nine sites around the valley on Wednesday in a sweeping probe into possible collusion between homeowners associations and businesses benefitting from construction defect lawsuits.
The owner of Silver Lining Construction, a business connected to Wednesday’s FBI raids, also operates a nonprofit autism foundation, according to state records.
For once, Gov. Jim Gibbons and I are in complete agreement. Robert Loux must go.
A story in Saturday’s Review-Journal and an obituary Wednesday incorrectly stated the date of death for Floyd and Diane Williams of Las Vegas. They were killed Sept. 18 in a small-plane crash in Colorado.
Jeff Chilton remembers well his reaction to the moratorium on full-scale nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site that was launched temporarily in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush and extended indefinitely by President Clinton the following year.
Entrance fees at Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead and other federal parks across the country will be waived on Saturday in honor of National Public Lands Day.
A new television ad attacking Dina Titus features banjo music, a high-lonesome whistle and the outline of the Lone Star State. A commercial attacking Jon Porter has thumping disco music and Porter’s head on an awkwardly dancing body.
A grand jury issued an indictment Wednesday against Edward Halverson, charging him with attempting to murder his wife, suspended District Court Judge Elizabeth Halverson.
On Wednesday morning, a shopping center in one of Las Vegas’ oldest neighborhoods had something that hadn’t been seen there in years — hordes of paying customers.
Rage-addled metalheads, rap cutups and, uh, Wayne Brady lead the way in this month’s roundup of Vegas releases.
Louis C.K. says he hopes everyone who sees him Saturday, in the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, is offended by something he says.
It’s a happy day when you get your NetFlix DVD in the mail and you get to tear into the red and white envelope for your next night of couch-potatoing. But, does that extra flap go from package to recycling quick as a flash with no glory or joy? Well, no more, because there’s netflixorigami.com. Now you can turn those flaps into swans, hearts and other artistic creations.
John Kinde doesn’t know what will happen when the Las Vegas Improvisational Players take to the stage tonight.
In some ways, the title to Cockroach Theatre’s current production at the Onyx is misleading.
Modern math hits the media. The equation: Do newscasts minus more and more newspeople still equal news that’s a plus to a community?
Everybody rolls the dice in Las Vegas. But not always at the craps table.
Aliante Station will give Station Casinos a ring around the valley of entertainment venues, and for the first time the company will test two-night, twin-casino bookings for some of its concert acts.
La Strada dell’Arte and Celebration of the Arts join forces again for the Summerlin Art Festival. The 2008 edition of the event will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Summerlin Centre Community Park on Town Center Drive between West Charleston Boulevard and West Sahara Avenue.
Don’t think of it merely as the Nevada Ballet Theatre’s 2008-2009 season. Think of it as a very entertaining, season-long introductory course in dance.
Men’s fall fashion suffers from split personality disorder. Two looks dominated the runways and they couldn’t be further apart in style. You would think the rugged, outdoor worker and the dapper minimalist have little in common, but this season we found some crossover items.
Step one foot in Jonathan Fine’s condo at The District and there’s no doubt you’re in a bachelor pad.
Would a free market in schooling — one free of “intrusive regulation of the curricula, methods, and personnel decisions” of the schools, one in which schools compete for the tuition money of parents exercising free choice over where to send their kids — produce better results for America?
The valley’s lousy economy is no excuse to stop planning for Southern Nevada’s future prosperity. The key to that planning is making better use of the vast tracts of barren desert managed, at your expense, by the federal government.
Nevadans are being bombarded with frequent phone surveys these days. Most of them are designed to figure out that presidential race, but some are efforts down ticket to push and pull the electorate.
Sales of existing homes in the West climbed higher in August from a year ago, bucking a national trend as buyers snatched up sharply discounted foreclosed properties in Nevada, California and Arizona, according to two reports Wednesday.