Some of the fliers circulating in North Las Vegas this week invite residents to the city’s annual hot-air balloon festival, BalloonaPalooza. Other fliers address an issue that’s more of a downer. The handouts invite residents to a seven-hour workshop dealing with the foreclosure crisis. Nevada leads the nation in the rate of foreclosures, and North Las Vegas is [...] [...more]
No metropolitan area has seen prices fall as much in the past year as in Las Vegas. That’s the latest, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, which looks at 20 cities across the country. Las Vegas recorded a 28.6 percent decline in the past year, according to most recent survey. That barely surpasses Miami, [...] [...more]
It started with a phone call from Whole Foods in 2004. Officials with Las Vegas-based Just Like Sugar had just developed a natural sugar substitute designed to look and cook like the real deal. They hadn’t even marketed the product when a grocery coordinator from Whole Foods in Florida called and ordered 100 cases of Just [...] [...more]
Henderson plans to ask the Nevada Legislature next year to pass a bill that would require homeowners associations to maintain the block walls around the neighborhoods they represent. At present, city officials say, many communities have no clear guidelines on whether that responsibility falls on the association or individual homeowners whose homes abut the wall. “As our [...] [...more]
