Las Vegas conventions

Conventions scheduled for the Las Vegas area this week:

Coming in this week’s Las Vegas Business Press

COVER STORY: The Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition has expanded. Existing small businesses with 20 workers or fewer will now join startups in vying for a shot at cash and prizes.

Chamber connect

Asian Chamber of Commerce

Bars ready to pour for new NFL season

The NFL season kicks off Thursday, so it’s time to unveil our annual list of Southern Nevada bars, taverns and restaurants that cater to fans of specific NFL teams.

Laughlin looks to halt decade of tourism declines

LAUGHLIN — For much of the past year, several resort operators have pointed to the mess on Casino Drive as a prime culprit for their anemic finances.

NEVADAN AT WORK: Working from bottom up deepened chef’s kitchen capability

Dressed in a stark-white uniform, longtime Las Vegas chef John McKibben stood behind the bar and looked out at a dining room half full at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday. Families and couples chatted between bites of baked brie, crab-stuffed shrimp and Greek salad.

This week

Judge is asked to toss lawsuit against BLM

RENO — Government lawyers are asking a judge in Nevada to throw out a lawsuit filed by an 81-year-old tribal leader who is seeking $30 million from the Bureau of Land Management in a decades-old dispute over treaty rights and livestock grazing.

Week In Review

A longtime Republican political operative could be headed to prison in connection with a long-running federal investigation of Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.

HOA fraud cases may be merged

Federal prosecutors are moving to consolidate all of the cases under one judge in the massive investigation into fraud and corruption at homeowners associations.

Some schools have too few students, others too many

In the teeth of a poor economy, populations in the Clark County School District have shifted or declined. That has left some campuses empty while others are packed to the gills.

Patients asking courts for way out of medical marijuana bind

Robert Weidenfeld has become increasingly frustrated that local and federal law enforcement agents are shutting down the dispensaries he and other medical marijuana users depend on.

TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11: Is Las Vegas a target?

Las Vegas attracts 40 million visitors a year. But that reputation also attracts the attention of terrorists, who see Sin City as the ultimate symbol of vice and excess in the U.S.

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