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Raiders want to stay in Oakland for 2019 season: Wednesday, March 29, 2017; The Raiders remain committed to finding a way to play in Oakland for the 2019 season despite word that the agency that oversees their Bay Area stadium will not extend ...
Nevada real estate investment firm receives $2.2 billion judgment: Wednesday, March 29, 2017; A Nevada company that purchased and foreclosed on homeowners association liens won a $2.2 billion judgment today in Clark County District Court against a ...
Roger Goodell details why NFL warmed to Las Vegas and its (previously) dreaded sports betting: Wednesday, March 29, 2017; Las Vegas changed and the National Football League noticed, according to its commissioner. Roger Goodell spoke at length about the NFL’s shift in attitude toward its newest home market following the conclusion of the league’s annual meeting ...
Raiders’ Del Rio says Las Vegas fans fired up, Oakland diehards will be there: Tuesday, March 28, 2017; Raiders coach Jack Del Rio grabbed a cup of coffee and sized up the large group of reporters surrounding his table at the AFC coaches breakfast at the Arizona Biltmore resort.
“What might be on your minds?” Del Rio said jokingly. Here are ...
What's next for Raiders? A lot, including a season-ticket interest list in Las Vegas: Tuesday, March 28, 2017; More than 10 hours into the most important day in his ownership of the Oakland Raiders, Mark Davis walked away from an interview in a lengthy foyer and spun his head quizzically left, then right and left again ...
The Las Vegas Raiders: NFL owners OK move from Oakland: Monday, March 27, 2017; The Las Vegas Raiders are official. The Oakland Raiders will move to Las Vegas and begin playing in the desert starting with the 2020 season. National Football League owners approved the team’s application to relocate to Southern Nevada at their annual meeting this morning at ...
Welcome to Las Vegas, Raiders: NFL’s famed franchise should get OK to move to here today: The Raiders are looking for 24 of 32 NFL owners to approve relocating to Las Vegas; Monday, March 27, 2017; In the heart of the Sonoran desert stands the Arizona Biltmore resort, a stunning oasis built in 1929 that long has served as a getaway for the famous and fabulous. Wealth and power will gather at the Biltmore again this week as National Football League owners ...
Las Vegas stadium loans could leave Raiders feeling financial squeeze: Friday, March 24, 2017; The Oakland Raiders soon will find out if they can put a $1.9 billion stadium on layaway. The team’s complicated stadium financing structure must pass its first major stress test when ...
Will UNLV football feel at home on game day as secondary tenant of NFL stadium?: Wednesday, March 22, 2017; Blending scarlet and gray with silver and black on top of green will present a tricky art project at the proposed NFL football stadium in Las Vegas. While most ...
Las Vegas and college basketball: What a team they could be: Monday, March 20, 2017; Basketball analyst Debbie Antonelli is on a mission to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas, and she's pouring all of her experience in marketing and playing the ...
Room-tax money for Las Vegas Raiders stadium starts to flow before move finalized: Friday, March 17, 2017; The Raiders do not call Las Vegas home just yet, but Nevada’s public investment in the team’s proposed $1.9 billion stadium already is accumulating. A room tax increase dedicated to funding the the Las Vegas Raiders stadium ...
Lack of Las Vegas stadium lease not seen as barrier for NFL in Raiders' move: Thursday, March 9, 2017; Cheering union workers wearing silver-and-black Oakland Raiders helmets filled council chambers at Clark County Government Center on Thursday afternoon, a return to ...
What's behind the $1.9 billion price tag for NFL stadium in Las Vegas?: Wednesday, March 8, 2017; Even a figure as massive as $1.9 billion can sound downright mundane after being repeated in discourse for months. Even casual followers of the Raiders ...
With future of Obamacare in doubt, Nevada exchange focused on reaching more people in need: Monday, March 6, 2017; Enrollment via Nevada’s hybrid marketplace — in which the state certifies plans and determines eligibility while sign-ups process through the federal ...
Las Vegas Stadium Authority to tackle Raiders' revised lease proposal next week: Friday, March 3, 2017; With its next milepost less than a week away, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board awaits a restructured lease agreement proposal from the Oakland Raiders after outlining to the team concerns about the original document’s structure. Amid a climate of questions surrounding stadium financing, the board meets Thursday in Las Vegas and will discuss progress on ...
Nevada senators turn up heat on Sessions: Thursday, March 2, 2017; Both of Nevada’s senators turned up pressure today on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as news of Sessions’ contact with a Russian official during the presidential campaign continued to ...
Union membership in Nevada drops sharply: Wednesday, March 1, 2017; Union membership in Nevada dropped last year to its lowest level since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began collecting data in 1989, according to statistics released last week by the federal government. ...
McCarran starts year with uptick in traffic: Monday, Feb. 27, 2017; After witnessing one of the busiest years in its long history, McCarran International Airport began 2017 with another month of passenger growth. International travel proved ...
Southern Nevada sees increase in rental rates: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017; As it becomes more expensive to buy a house in Southern Nevada in early 2017, home and apartment rental rates creep upward as well. RentRange’s final quarterly report for 2016 showed that the average monthly rent for a three-bedroom home in the Las Vegas area bumped up to ...
Group pursues public records over foiled implementation of background-check law: Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017; Proponents of the voter-approved Question 1 background-check measure cast a broad net this week in filing a massive public records request to state and federal agencies. “I think we’re just trying to get a handle on what took place, including all the agencies that have ...
Why Raiders are so confident about L.V. stadium financing: Friday, Feb. 10, 2017; Oakland Raiders officials insisted Thursday they will acquire the suddenly missing $650 million needed to finance their new $1.9 billion stadium in Las Vegas. Exactly who will put up that money remains a mystery now that billionaire Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson withdrew his financial commitment to the project last week. Members of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board and Raiders representatives attempted to calm concerns about ...
Raiders official: 'Financing will not be an issue' for stadium in Las Vegas: Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017; Following the apparent withdrawal of Sheldon Adelson and financing partner Goldman Sachs, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board and Oakland Raiders attempted to calm concerns about the franchise’s proposed move to Las Vegas at Thursday’s board meeting. Raiders President Marc Badain told board members at ...
If NFL passes on Las Vegas, earmarked money could help build stadium for UNLV: Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017; Detached from the Raiders relocation drama, UNLV’s football team still has a real opportunity to play in a fancy new stadium within the next few years, depending on ...
8 things to know about the proposed Raiders’ stadium lease: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017; The Oakland Raiders laid out their preferred terms in a draft lease agreement with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority last week. They also apparently caught billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson off guard, as he withdrew his $650 million investment in the $1.9 billion stadium project Monday afternoon. ...
The car of the future is already on the road in Nevada: Monday, Jan. 30, 2017; Nevada has taken a leading role in the testing and development of autonomous vehicles. Once a science fiction fever dream, self-driving cars equipped with lasers, cameras and radar ...
Raiders submit draft lease for proposed Las Vegas stadium: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017; The push to bring the Raiders to Nevada moved forward today as the team submitted a draft 30-year lease agreement to the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board and affirmed its preference ...
‘Preview’ scholars cautious about what Trump presidency means for Las Vegas economy: Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017; Economists and scholars agreed at Tuesday’s Preview Las Vegas event that Nevada’s recovery from the Great Recession hums along in normally watched sectors like ...
Nevada members of Congress discuss their 2017 goals, thoughts on Trump: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017; With half of the state’s six congressional seats changing hands as the executive branch switches parties, Nevadans will be represented by a group that includes the first ...
Broad acceptance of drones — and industry growth — depends on smart regulation: Monday, Jan. 16, 2017; Drone industry leaders and government officials bantered during a CES panel discussion last week on regulation, specifically what needs to be done to create a clear set of guidelines from the federal level on down to the neighborhood streets. The race, as both sides see it, is against time: one major accident involving a drone could cause public panic and knee-jerk political response before those working on a comprehensive solution can present their case.
Why building consumer trust in technology is tricky business: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017; That iPhone in your pocket or purse brings you the outside world in a convenient and powerful tiny package. It also allows the rest of the world right inside yours at the same time ...
CES takeaways: Cars, televisions and homes enter brave new world: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017; Pixels and progress demand your eyes and ears each moment on the show floor at CES, where a hailstorm of brighter, faster and smarter sweeps across your skin at a blinding pace. Taking in what just hit ...
At CES, security experts warn of lurking threats from smart devices: Friday, Jan. 6, 2017; Hey Siri, did you tell Alexa what we talked about last night? This is not sample conversation from the latest episode of "The Bachelor." Within the “internet of things” that connects everything from our phones to our ...
Hyperloop One has long-term plans for Apex beyond first test in March: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017; The technological dream of hyperloop transport does not belong solely to Hyperloop One, but the company’s investment in testing at Apex Industrial Park north of the valley makes it the speed merchant of interest in Southern Nevada. That investment apparently ...
Driverless shuttles move closer to Las Vegas streets: Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017; Whether it’s an Olli or a NAVLY, Southern Nevadans and tourists could be getting around busy areas of the valley in driverless shuttles in the near future. Both Local Motors and Keolis discussed plans to bring their self-driving shuttles to the Las Vegas area Tuesday at Mandalay Bay during the GO-NV Summit, presented by the Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility. The half-day conversation about ...
Despite November dip, McCarran passenger count nears record highs: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017; The passenger count dipped in November from a busy October, but 2016 is poised to be one of the best in the history of McCarran International Airport when year-end totals become available. ...
How Nevadans can better handle holiday credit card debt: Friday, Dec. 30, 2016; Packing on a little extra at the holidays goes well beyond the dinner table for many people. And much like those pesky five pounds, shedding credit card debt often requires more time to shed than it took to acquire ...
Gold Butte designated a national monument: Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016; The future of Gold Butte tipped toward the side of environmentalists today when President Barack Obama designated the desert land as a national monument, but protecting it could prove challenging. Gold Butte is northeast of the Las Vegas, between Lake Mead National Recreation Area and ...
Racial diversity in L.V. neighborhoods among best in the country: Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016; Racial diversity within Las Vegas neighborhoods ranks among the best in the country, according to a recent analysis of census data released by the Brookings Institution. ...
CCSD files lawsuit over reorganization: Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016; Citing a laundry list of concerns about its development and implementation, the Clark County School Board of Trustees filed suit Wednesday against the state regulation that directed a required reorganization of the school district. ...
As hackers exploit the holidays, how to protect yourself online: Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016; Reports detailing the breach of more than a billion Yahoo user accounts last week provide a sober reminder of the need to protect your personal information, especially during the retail-heavy holiday season. ...
Timeline: Harry Reid through the years: Monday, Dec. 19, 2016; Harry Reid's long career in American government boasts a lot of milestones, from helping to pass the Affordable Care Act to blocking the development of Yucca Mountain into the nation's dump for nuclear waste.
Scarcer Christmas trees mean higher prices for Las Vegans: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016; Steve Phillips and his family venture up to Oregon every year in August to walk his favorite Christmas tree plantation. This year, he discovered early in the process that tree prices would shoot upward, as growers in Oregon and Washington charge more for ...
Realtors anticipate new Las Vegas headquarters: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016; Realtors in Southern Nevada will have a new space to call home next year. ...
Modest economic growth predicted for valley in 2017: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016; Next year will not be a boom year for the Las Vegas economy, but it will be far from a bust. “We’re slowing down a bit. We’re improving but not as ...
Don't uproot that weed: Those worried about Las Vegas real estate prices near marijuana dispensaries may be pleasantly surprised: Monday, Dec. 12, 2016; Don’t worry if Mary Jane buys the house next door. She might just make yours more valuable. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in January after Nevada voters passed ...
On city tour, mayor hopes to sell real estate agents on North Las Vegas: Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016; Sell, sell, sell. Whether it’s Mayor John Lee pushing the virtues of North Las Vegas or the assembled audience of real estate professionals Wednesday morning at City Hall, that’s the ultimate goal ...
High off the hog: NLV housing development planned for former pig farm: Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016; A 150-acre housing development called Sedona Ranch will be built on the site of R.C. Farms, the departing North Las Vegas pig farm ...
Home resale price gains heat up amid typically slow season: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016; Christmas came early for the local real-estate community with news that housing resale prices edged upward in November, defying the usual trend for ...
Weeknight lane closures set for Airport Connector work: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016; Continuing construction work on the Airport Connector will cause a new series of restrictions and closures through the end of the month. ...
Summerlin Parkway flyover work begins on Monday: Friday, Dec. 2, 2016; Add Summerlin Parkway to the burgeoning list of roadway construction projects jamming traffic in Southern Nevada. ...