View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. Contact each individual agency for more information.
Black Mountain Institute City of Asylum resident writer Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar is scheduled to share a night of discussion with readers through an interpreter as part of a program titled Unsilenced: Censorship, Iran and the Contemporary Novelist in Exile.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted for murder in a cross-border shooting of a Mexican teenager in 2012 in what an attorney for the victim’s family on Thursday called an unprecedented move.
A psychiatric patient who shot and killed his caseworker before exchanging gunfire with his doctor in a Philadelphia-area hospital was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without parole.
A 6-year-old boy was killed and his 11-year-old brother critically wounded when they were struck by a volley of bullets in a drive-by shooting while in bed at a Houston home on Friday, media reports said.
The way that you know that you’ve made it in Vegas is when you get your own slot machine in a casino. Ask Britney Spears.
We’ve been given the chance to take a sneak peek of the Troubadour Stage, which is being presented by Insomniac, the folks responsible for putting together Electric Daisy Carnival, the annual three-day electronic music festival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The United States and much of the world will see skies graced by a bright, big moon that will be encapsulated in a total lunar eclipse late Sunday evening into early Monday, according to NASA.
The four college students killed in a crash between their charter bus and an amphibious tour bus on a Seattle bridge were from Austria, China, Indonesia and Japan, their school said on Friday.
A little of the green stuff goes a long way in master-planned communities. When new-home buyers look for a community, they consider how much community space is available. Parks and trails can support residents with medical benefits, ways to socialize, connections to neighborhoods and a breath of fresh air.
After doing just enough to maintain their homes in the wake of the Great Recession, Americans are starting to ramp up spending on backyard decks, spalike bathrooms and other vanity improvements.
Dear Expert: I’m thinking about taking the leap and buying a home. I hear the term “rate lock” a lot. Exactly what is it and would now be a good time to use it? — All Locked Up Dear Locked:
You have to research mortgage rates, work on your credit, find a lender, all in the hopes of finding the most affordable financing possible.
Before you go to settlement on your purchase of a newly constructed home, you and your builder will do a walk-through to conduct a final inspection that provides an opportunity to spot items that may need to be corrected or adjusted, learn about the way your new home works and ask questions about anything you don’t understand.
Pitbull’s show turns out to be a perfect fit for the remodeled Axis and the club-generation visitors it targets with its standing-room general-admission areas up front.
The average total cost a borrower pays to close on a home loan has dropped slightly, an exclusive Bankrate.com survey finds.
Mortgage rates inched up this week following satisfactory news about the housing market’s progress.
1,950,267 loans were originated on single-family homes and condos in the second quarter, up 22 percent from the previous quarter and up 23 percent from a year ago to the highest level since the third quarter of 2013.
Q: My mother is a hoarder. She owns her split-level ranch-style home, which is in my deceased father’s name and hers. Mother is 98 years old and has dementia, which is in the more-than-moderate stage. She lives by herself with her dog.
Your credit score is affected by numerous factors, but late payments on your credit card, mortgage and auto loan can be among the worst ways to damage your score. No matter the reason for your tardiness, a late payment tells creditors that repaying the money you’ve borrowed isn’t something you take seriously.
Pardee Homes’ Smart Choice Event through Sept. 4 will showcase move-in ready homes at the builder’s 12 Southern Nevada neighborhoods, including Henderson, southwest Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.
Ascaya, a luxury hillside community in Henderson, is hosting a public open house 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Guests will have the opportunity to visit home sites, view renderings and preview showcase homes at the private community.
For about $300,000 you can get a 2,000-square-foot home with three bedrooms, three baths and a two-car garage in most areas of the Las Vegas Valley.
Las Vegas HOA rules change on getting bids for work
Mortgage rates fell this week after China’s economy suffered a major setback that disrupted international markets and U.S. consumers lost some optimism in their outlook on the housing climate.
One of the very first musical guests on ‘The Muppets’? None other than local homeboys in Imagine Dragons — due at this weekend’s Life Is Beautiful festival — playing “Roots” with the inimitable Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.
In advance of Rhett’s performance at the Oct. 2-4 Route 91 Harvest Festival at the Las Vegas Village — which also features Rhett’s tour mates Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum and more — we caught up with the rising country star.
The Ogden in downtown Las Vegas recently reported a record sales month with 14 closings valued at more than $4 million in four weeks.
Like many families, Matthias and Deborah Wolff knew at some point in the future they were going to wish to refinance their home mortgage to take advantage of lower interest rates and better terms. As long-time homeowners, they also knew that making the right choice of which lender to work with could make a huge difference in how smoothly the whole process could go. When the time came to start their refinance process, the Wolffs were smart enough to shop around — one thing that Premier Mortgage Lending owner, Rick Piette, encourages all of his customers to do.