Q: My guard-gated community has security company employees who are armed. The homeowners association board wants speeders to be compliant. The security guards are trained on using radar/laser speed guns, and the machines are calibrated yearly.
A shift to a seller’s market has led to increasing sales prices, and 75 percent of homes sold within 60 days in May, according to Rick Piette of Premier Mortgage Lending.
Q: Home prices have been going up pretty fast this year. Do you think people who have been on the fence about buying a house have already missed the boat? Is it too late to get in on this latest boom?
Summerlin will hold its 19th annual Fourth of July parade, a massive annual celebration that is open to the public. The event is expected to draw more than 35,000 people and will showcase 70 parade entries, including marching bands, professionally decorated floats and giant Macy’s-style helium balloons.
Ryland Homes’ Zephyr Ridge in Henderson is under construction with a grand opening scheduled later this summer. The neighborhood has four two-story and one single-story home available for sale, with the first phase already sold out, according to sales agent Rhonda Polk.
The northwest Las Vegas sky will light up for Independence Day with a free fireworks show at the Providence master-planned community. The second Stars, Stripes & Sparks event is slated for Thursday at the community’s Knickerbocker Park.
On the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee listened to scouting reports, scanned the battlefield and ordered his second-in-command, James Longstreet, to attack the Union Army’s left flank.
Airman 1st Class Brent Whipple said he was tired of renting. So he bought a home at Woodside Homes’ Geyser Peak.
Anthony Bennett learned he would be making NBA draft history the same time as everyone else. “When they said my name,” Bennett said of the Cleveland Cavaliers surprisingly taking Bennettand making him the first Canadian No. 1 overall pick.
Las Vegas-based marketing and communications firm SK+G Advertising is opening an office in Hong Kong.
A man’s body was found on the side of the road in southwest Las Vegas Friday morning, according to police.
Paula Deen just lost another business partner.
Sears Holdings Corp. announced Friday that it is cutting ties with the Southern celebrity chef, adding to the list of companies severing their relationship following revelations that Deen used racial slurs in the past.
Rancho High School graduate Chorkin Chau is eager to start college classes and begin her professional career. She, along with fellow Rancho student Kevin Prasad and Loren Ayala of Advanced Technologies Academy, will not have to pay for college. They are among the 1,000 students in the country to be named Gates Millennium Scholars, which covers tuition, books, housing and other fees through graduation.
This year, DJ-producer Steve Aoki plans to lay down hundreds of thousands of dollars in healthy bets — bets with friends that he will exercise and that they will exercise. If people involved in these bets miss a physical workout, they owe each other cash. What kind of exercising is involved? The serious kind.
North Las Vegas’ Nicholas E. Flores Jr. Park was named quietly.
Valley military residents help their communities in a variety of ways, from hearing complaints to displaying their pride of citizenship.
When a restaurant has been in business in Las Vegas for 20 years, you might get the idea that they’re doing something right, and in the case of The Pasta Shop Ristorante & Art Gallery, you’d be correct.
The namesake of Fine Elementary School, 6635 W. Cougar Ave., changed the face of the Las Vegas Valley forever.
James Gandolfini “never said no” to a friend, according to cast mate Steve Schirripa.
Read about news and events happening in the Summerlin and Summerlin South areas.
The side dishes at this restaurant, including yams, red beans and rice, fried okra, black-eyed peas, tell you that something special is going on in the kitchen.
What is a juke joint? It’s the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, gambling, food and drinking. And that’s what Juke Joint Bar & Grill is all about, especially the part about food.
This restaurant is all about family and family recipes, which form the core of Yalla Mediterranean Grill’s authentic menu, That menu says “home,” which here means Beirut, Lebanon and Amman, Jordan.
A Vatican cleric and two other people were arrested Friday by Italian police for allegedly trying to smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash into the country from Switzerland by private jet. It’s the latest scandal to hit the Holy See and broadens an Italian probe into its secretive bank.