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Experience wins out over price in selection of jails' food vendor: June 18, 2013; By Conor Shine; Competition and controversy were on the menu Tuesday when Clark County commissioners awarded a lucrative contract to provide meals at two of its jails to a more experienced – but more expensive – company.

Water park extends hours, offers twilight tickets: June 18, 2013; By Ed Komenda; Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas has extended its operating hours. Beginning this Friday and Saturday, and every Friday and Saturday thereafter, the park will open at 10 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. The park previously closed at 8 p.m. on those nights.

Waiting for word from Bernanke, stocks move higher: June 18, 2013; By Christina Rexrode, Associated Press; It's all about the Fed. Still. U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation. But the Federal Reserve loomed large, with investors trying to guess what the central bank will say Wednesday about how long it plans to keep stimulus programs in place. For many, Tuesday was just a holding pattern as they waited for Wednesday's announcement.

The tastemaker: EDMbiz host Jason Bentley breaks down EDC Week’s unifying groove: June 18, 2013; By Andrea Domanick; Bentley has made separate careers of music supervision for film and advertising, as well as DJing nightclubs and music festivals.

New Las Vegas Strip arena to cost $350 million: June 18, 2013; By Ed Komenda; AEG and MGM Resorts International have ironed out the details of a deal to build a $350 million arena behind the Monte Carlo and New York-New York resorts. The 20,000-seat arena will stretch from Las Vegas Boulevard to Frank Sinatra Drive.

Move over, NY-NY Roller Coaster: Another roller coaster - the Polercoaster - is proposed for the Strip: June 18, 2013; By Ed Komenda,
Richard N. Velotta; A Florida roller coaster company wants to build a towering roller coaster in Las Vegas, but the project has a long way to go before becoming a reality. US Thrill Rides LLC filed an application in April with the Federal Aviation Administration to build a 650-foot-tall observation deck and roller coaster called the Polercoaster. The FAA is reviewing the application, agency spokesman Ian Gregor said.

Company preparing to sell tickets for Las Vegas party train: June 18, 2013; By Richard N. Velotta; A company developing a casino party train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas will launch a travel booking operation next month to sell tickets.

Principles are worth the time, cost it takes to wage the fight: June 18, 2013; By Brian Greenspun; Where’s my lawyer? It turns out that my dear friend Larry Ruvo and I share the same lawyer. Normally, that wouldn’t cause a problem because one thing we learn in law school — yes, I did that a lifetime ago — is to multitask.

Were philanthropist's good deeds financed by his bad deeds?: June 18, 2013; By Natasha Singer, New York Times News Service; The morning after a catastrophic earthquake leveled buildings and killed thousands of people in Haiti in 2010, an Internet marketing millionaire from St. George, Utah, named Jeremy Johnson decided to cancel all his business meetings and arrange his own ad hoc aid mission. But what Johnson had to give — and it was quite a bit — may have come from consumers who got taken. The Federal Trade Commission says Johnson was “the mastermind” behind one of the largest and most intricate online marketing frauds ever perpetrated in the United States.

Sin City? Blog says the title rightfully belongs to St. Louis, not Las Vegas: June 18, 2013; By Ed Komenda; Las Vegas newbies often call this neon paradise by its clichéd nickname. But how does Sin City stack up against debauchery in other major cities?

On tap for LV council: Olympic Garden rooftop pool, new retail near Mob Museum and energy codes: June 18, 2013; By Conor Shine; A months-long debate about how to balance business development with sustainability could come to an end Wednesday when the Las Vegas City Council considers a bill that would loosen energy efficiency standards for older buildings.

GOP bill would feed new funding to stalled Yucca Mountain project: June 17, 2013; By Karoun Demirjian; The annual federal fiscal fight over Yucca Mountain is on once again, now that House Republicans have released their annual appropriations proposal for fiscal 2014.

After decade on job, Nevada parks director set to retire: June 17, 2013; By Cy Ryan; David Morrow, administrator of the state Division of Parks for the past 10 years, is retiring and he jokes it's because of "old age."

Submitting building plans now just a mouse click away: June 17, 2013; By Conor Shine; Submitting land-use applications and plans for residential and commercial projects in Las Vegas has been made as easy as clicking a button, thanks to a new online system unveiled Monday.

Joe Downtown: Muralist completes touchup on shuttered Western hotel: June 17, 2013; By Joe Schoenmann; For a building that will be near the center of a 15-block festival of life’s beauty, the Western Hotel, something of an eyesore even when it was operational, seems somewhat out of place.