It’s a Saturday in December, historically one of the slowest months on the Strip, yet the Bellagio lobby is nearly standing-room only.
COVER STORY: Construction in Las Vegas continues to face big challenges. Commercial vacancies are at a record high, new-home sales are at a record low and some 72,000 construction workers have lost their jobs in the last three years. But observers foresee more pain ahead and expect little relief in 2012.
All year long, those who choreograph Las Vegas nightlife meticulously plot and plan. Data are analyzed, customer counts are calculated and potential earnings are compared side-by-side with marketing and operations budgets.
Before the Studio at the Palms opened in 2005, big-name recording artists rarely came to Las Vegas to work. There were already a handful of established music industry towns; Sin City offered merely an escape, a place to party.
WASHINGTON — Congress reached a last-minute deal to avoid a partial government shutdown last week, approving $915 billion in spending to cover the remaining nine months of the fiscal year.
Smoldering outrage over officer-involved shootings exploded last week with the death of Stanley Gibson, a disabled Gulf War veteran who was unarmed and sitting in his own car when he was shot to death by police.
A reader with an Irish brogue called an RJ reporter Thursday to complain about ancient history.
Arizona officials spent $4.8 million on three crossings in a 15-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 when the highway was widened through the sheep’s range.
Towering over a tire repair shop in downtown Las Vegas, a billboard displays Ron Paul’s smiling face and a pitch to vote for him in the Feb. 4 GOP presidential caucus in Nevada.
The main road connecting Las Vegas and Reno could be rerouted near the central Nevada town of Goldfield to make way for something older than the Silver State itself: a mining boom.
It’s easy to play armchair detective when it comes to police shootings. If you’ve seen one TV cop show solve a crime between detergent commercials, you’ve seen a thousand.
Las Vegas cops are on the defensive. In the past two weeks, they’ve endured a critical Review-Journal investigation of officer-involved shootings, one of the most troubling shootings in Metropolitan Police Department history and calls by civil rights groups for a federal investigation.
A Texas billionaire’s wife bought two ranches in Elko County to serve as an eco-sanctuary for wild horses. Her opponents are the county commission and ranchers.
Nevada ranchers, living off the range for generations, see their way of life threatened by environmentalists, mining companies and efforts to save endangered species.
Forty years after Congress passed a law protecting wild horses from harm, the program to manage the animals has become unbridled. And it’s costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year.
The Hughes ranch in Bartlesville, Okla., has been home to thousands of America’s wild horses since 1989. They were rounded up in the West, half from Nevada, to make the 1,400-mile trailer trek to the Midwest.
Laura Leigh posts videos, photos and blogs on the Internet to expose what she sees as abuse. She’s filed lawsuits against the BLM on a regular basis, trying to halt roundups.