School board members say the Clark County School District will suffer if legislators take away funds used to make small capital improvements throughout the district.
Ryland Homes is selling seven home floor plans in Kingwood Knoll in The Vistas village of Summerlin. Floor plans include one- and two- story homes that range from 1,515 to 2,224 square feet. Prices start in the mid $200,000s.
Despite the current downsizing trend, Performance Marketing America has begun operations from its newly expanded corporate headquarters located at 121 Warm Springs Road.
Pardee Homes is preparing for the grand opening of Solstice, located in the master-planned Aliante community in North Las Vegas. The neighborhood is anticipated to open in mid April and will offer the only new homes for sale in Aliante.
The master-planned communities of Mountain’s Edge and Providence are preparing for events scheduled to be held at each community. The spring event season kicks off at Mountain’s Edge with the third annual Easter Extravaganza in April, and the Providence event season begins with gardening classes for residents in March.
Long-time developer Rich MacDonald is using a different approach to selling houses and custom home sites within the community.
Laguna at Vista Cielo by Harmony Homes is offering two-story floor plans with optional bedrooms, lofts, dens and game rooms with prices starting at $141,000.
Near the chapel at the veterans cemetery in Boulder City is a black granite plaque that bears the names of some of Clark County’s most notorious white-collar criminals.
A 17-year-old girl was in “extremely critical condition” after being shot in the head tonight, Las Vegas police said.
The Clark County School District’s high school dropout rate for 2008-09 decreased for the second consecutive year, according to district statistics released today.
Gov. Jim Gibbons and Nevada lawmakers said they hoped to reach a budget agreement quickly, but after two meetings remained divided on how to raise revenue to fill an $887 million budget gap. The leaders put off late night talks until Saturday morning with a goal of finalizing the deal then.
Regulators this afternoon seized the Carson River Community Bank, a $52 million-asset bank in Carson City, because of “inadequate capital and mounting loan losses.”
Kurt Busch has won the pole at Las Vegas Motor Speedway by shattering his brother’s track record. Kurt Busch turned a lap of 188.719 mph to claim the top starting spot for Sunday’s race.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid does not believe Las Vegas federal judge Jay Bybee should be disbarred or disciplined for authoring “torture memos” as an attorney in the Bush administration, after a Justice Department internal review concluded the memos were flawed but not unethical, a Reid spokesman said today.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Mining Association formally agreed Friday to provide $100 million in additional revenue to help reduce the state’s $887 million revenue shortfall.