June 4, 2012
Currently: 92° | Complete forecast | Log in
Username
Password
Connect with Facebook
The Sun at its brightest and boldest
Part One: Nine workers die in 16 months. Workers fear for safety and victims’ families want contractors held responsible.
Part Two: The State of Nevada is not aggressively enforcing safety laws, state safety officials routinely withdraw citations after meeting privately with contractors.
Video: Examine the circumstances of each of the nine fatal accidents and read biographies of several workers.
Interactive: Examine the circumstances of each of the nine fatal accidents and read biographies of several workers.
Slideshow: Examine the circumstances of each of the nine fatal accidents and read biographies of several workers.
From the inside: How they coped: Minute by minute, drama unfolds as workers and guests learn hotel is burning.
Las Vegas fire history: Since 1943, Las Vegas residents and visitors have witnessed at least a dozen hotel fires.
Video: Clark County Fire Chief Steve Smith answers questions and guests share their reactions to the evacuation process.
Video: Despite a three-alarm fire, it was business as usual on the Strip.
Interactive: See how frequently individual flights were delayed to and from McCarran International Airport in 2007.
Video: If you're headed to McCarran International Airport tonight to pick up someone flying in from Philadelphia aboard US Airways flight 788, slow down - there's probably no hurry.
Time Lapse: A time-lapse video shows the steady frequency of incoming flights to McCarran International Airport over the course of a day.
Time Lapse: A time-lapse video shows the hustle and bustle of travelers making their way to the baggage claim area of McCarran International Airport over the course of a day.
Sun Archives (12-7-2004): Out of 31 major airports in the country, McCarran had the second highest percentage of delayed departures in October and the third highest percentage of delayed arrivals.
How Clinton hit pay dirt: The keys to her Nevada victory: a huge wave of new voters.
Culinary Union can’t muscle win: The ramifications will be felt for some time, as the union now faces a divided membership and perceptions of lost clout.
Rush to judgment: The loser of the Democratic presidential debate may not have been Clinton, Edwards or Obama. It appears to be Nevada’s courts.
The Voters have Spoken: Nevada residents tell of their first-hand experiences at the state’s first major caucus.
Video: The Culinary and The Caucus — The scene inside Paris Hotel and Casino’s ballroom wasn’t quite what the Culinary Union had in mind.
Initial Story: Allowed into the U.S. to treat underserved patients, foreign physicians are instead exploited — working countless hours, sometimes with little pay — too scared to complain and risk being sent home
Sponsor cheated her: Pediatrician says the foreign-doctors program gives employers leeway and an opportunity to take advantage.
Dec. 23, 2007: A government program to address a national health care crisis by placing foreign doctors in America's rural towns and inner cities is being undermined by employers - mostly U.S. doctors who profit by exploiting the physicians and diverting them from the patients who need them.
Feb. 13, 2008: State officials are taking steps to correct lax oversight of a program that brings foreign doctors to medically needy Nevada communities.
Video: More than 950 students from 45 high schools took part in the annual Sun Youth Forum, held Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Hear the Youth: Students discuss the Youth Forum.
History: The Sun Youth Forum was established in 1956 by Las Vegas Sun founder and publisher Hank Greenspun. See archives from every Sun Youth Forum.
Photo Gallery: State officials are taking steps to correct lax oversight of a Photos from the 52nd annual Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum.
Burning Man Seeing Green: At the annual Burning Man arts festival here in Northern Nevada, celebrants ritually burn a simple, 40-foot wooden sculpture of a man...
flickr: Photos from the Playa.
Video: This year’s festival featured approx. 47,000 people from Las Vegas, the U.S. and the world, who all traveled to an ancient lakebed, known as “the playa” in the Northern Nevada Black Rock desert...
Video: When the sun goes down at Burning Man, the pulse becomes electric as burners play on the playa.
Panorama: Celtic Forest was created by artists Laura Kimpton, Bob Hofmann and Jeff Schomberg.
Complete Listing »
More Facebook Activity »
More photos »
2 hours, 31 minutes ago
6 hours, 42 minutes ago
3 days, 2 hours ago
5 days, 7 hours ago
6 days, 2 hours ago
More blogs »
Facebook Connect