Q: What are the pros and cons of selling your own home versus using a Realtor, especially in today’s housing market? — Debbie H., Las Vegas
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a two-part series reviewing proposed bills before the 2009 Legislation that will affect Nevada homeowners associations.
It’s been a year of survival for Las Vegas new home builders. That’s what incoming Southern Nevada Home Builders Association President Bill Hoover told a Four Seasons banquet room full of people attending the group’s Dec. 3 luncheon to install 2009 officers and directors and distribute awards.
Grey Ruegamer knew it was a matter of time, because when you arrive at Super Bowl week and begin talking about how you used to castrate lambs with your teeth and how the worst part was getting blood on your mustache, well, you can bet the questions about handling blitz packages and if Eli Manning will ever emerge from big brother’s shadow are going to disappear for a few minutes.
The process of elimination continues in the NFL playoffs, as we’re down to eight teams, all needing three wins to capture a Super Bowl title.
Permission to swill a couple of 12-ounce beers might not seem to be a big deal, but it is if you’re a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq.
Barely three minutes into the game at Palo Verde on Friday, Centennial coach Karen Weitz slammed her clipboard to the floor and called timeout.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Every time he returns to his home state, Wink Adams makes sure UNLV takes care of business.
PRIMM — Yuriorkis Gamboa is considering making Las Vegas his permanent home. If he can count on the kind of support he had Friday at the Star of the Desert Arena, it’ll be an easy decision for him to move from Miami.
A team of scientists exploring Springs Preserve with remote- sensing gear has found what appears to be a prehistoric village of pit houses where as many as 30 Anasazi people lived about 1,300 years ago, the preserve’s archaeologist said Friday.
Educators weren’t bashful Friday about calling for tax increases to prevent cuts of 6 percent to teachers’ salaries.
President-elect Barack Obama wants Congress to “act boldly and act now” to fix the economy. Sounds as if he needs Jack Bauer on his economic team.
The number of homicides and sexual assaults rose slightly in Las Vegas last year, but every other crime category within the Metropolitan Police Department’s jurisdiction fell, in some cases dramatically.
Fallout from home foreclosures in Nevada is even hitting the landscaping, and the city of Las Vegas is considering a change that might make a small dent in the problem.
WASHINGTON — The Senate is picking up where it left off in the fall with a battle between Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who is protesting a big federal lands bill he says is full of questionable spending.
Three local Democrats lent their voices Friday to a campaign promoting the massive stimulus bill being prepared in advance of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, and they urged two Nevada Republicans in Congress to get on board.
Restaurants located within casinos still contain unsafe levels of secondhand smoke when compared to EPA guidelines post the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, a new study shows.
A jury Friday convicted a 19-year-old gang member in the 2007 slaying of another teen.
A man accused of killing his wife and a handyman in Las Vegas to collect more than $400,000 in insurance benefits has agreed to be returned to Nevada from Utah, where he was arrested.
Services will be held Sunday for filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler, a longtime Las Vegan whose no-budget hits (including “The Incredible Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies”) made him a B-movie legend.
A California woman was indicted Friday after authorities accused her of using a broken bottle to kill a man who was distributing handbills on the Strip.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas is developing a plan to add religious schools to the region, shifting focus from adding churches as local growth slows.
A man was gunned down in the doorway of his northwest Las Vegas home Friday night.
The iconic American rock band Cheap Trick is close to finalizing a headliner deal with the Las Vegas Hilton that would feature the group performing The Beatles‘ epic album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” live with a full orchestra.
Las Vegas’ streak of declining gaming revenue and visitors continued in November, with gaming revenues dropping nearly 15 percent and tourism numbers down by almost 10 percent.