Chinese New Year looking bright for high-end retailers in Las Vegas

For the next two weeks, lion dances and red envelopes will fill the Las Vegas landscape during Chinese New Year celebrations. For luxury retailers, it’s a time to showcase the most unique, high-end offerings they have available.

‘Jubilee’ sails into its future

Former showgirls return to help longest-running show in town say goodbye to its first 32 years.

Phone area code changes will affect some HOAs

Editor’s note: Barbara Holland takes a break from her Q&A column format to look at how new state laws are affecting area homeowners associations.

Resale Homes Listings

Editor’s note: Listings include the resale home’s parcel number. Occasionally, the address listed is the homebuyer’s mailing address, and not the actual location of the home. Check the parcel number to make sure. Also, a few transactions do not reflect the market value of the homes.

Harmony presents Silhouette

Harmony Homes has homes in its new Silhouette community in southwest Las Vegas, near the intersection of South Fort Apache and Blue Diamond roads.

The Shops at Summerlin adds national retailers

Summerlin will soon welcome the The Shops at Summerlin. Representatives from Howard Hughes Corp., developer of the master plan and The Shops at Summerlin, announced several retailers that will be in the shopping mall. The regional retail and entertainment center is expected to open this fall.

Silver Nugget Awards to celebrate homebuilding

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, in partnership with the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, will be celebrating the homebuilding industry’s accomplishments of 2013 at the Inaugural Silver Nugget Awards to be held March 29 at the Renaissance Hotel.

Toll Brothers to hold national sales event

Toll Brothers will hold a national sales even Feb. 1-17. For a limited time, homebuyers will be able to add personal touches with special money-saving incentives.

Lyon Estates in northwest valley

Lyon Estates offers semi custom designs to create executive-style and single-story residences in the northwestern valley.

NASCAR dials in new playoff system

NASCAR announced radical changes to its playoff system Thursday, and Las Vegas Motor Speedway is directly affected.

Summerlin Half Marathon to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

This year, the Summerlin Half Marathon will benefit the Southern Nevada 0ffice of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To help people train for the 13.1-mile event, Summerlin Half Marathon is hosting the Team In Training program.

Body parts found in bags dumped along Michigan roads

Body parts found in garbage bags along a southeastern Michigan road are believed to be the remains of one person and investigators are seeking a woman seen dumping things from a vehicle in the area, a sheriff said.

Nevada AG candidates split on gay marriage

Adam Laxalt and Ross Miller, who are both running for Nevada attorney general, disagree on whether gay marriage should be allowed in the state, according to statements provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Woman wakes up to find puma destroying her kitchen

A Chile woman was surprised to find a puma wreaking havoc in her kitchen recently as she started to make breakfast.

Favorite Sons & Daughters, Feb. 4-10

Air Force Airman Michael J. Ocampo graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. Ocampo is the son of Edna Contreras of Las Vegas. He is a 2007 graduate of Sierra Vista High School.

Reader-submitted photos and adoptable pets, Feb. 4-10

View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to Viewpoints, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.

No Labor of Love

“Labor Day.” It sounds like one of those Garry Marshall, every-holiday-is-a-movie extravaganzas a la “New Year’s Eve” and “Valentine’s Day.” Or maybe a screwball romantic comedy with, say, Katherine Heigl as a harried obstetrician.

Declared dead once, man faces death penalty in killing of Las Vegas girl

A federal judge in Louisiana has scheduled a hearing Feb. 19 on motions to dismiss the indictment against a man who was declared dead in Mississippi in 1994, but surfaced in 2010 as a suspect in the deaths of his Las Vegas girlfriend and her daughter.

Bills go up, but water usage has actually gone down thanks to technology and conservation

Yes, we all began paying more for water as of Jan. 1. And yes, the worst drought to hit Southern Nevada in more than a century is one part of the reason. Another part is the cost of providing the necessary infrastructure to deliver water to a growing population in the valley.

George Strait’s last tour as seen in prop bets

The King of Country is retiring to his court. After decades as one of the top concert draws in any genre, George Strait is quitting the road following the completion of his current “The Cowboy Rides Away Tour.”