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- How banker Selma Bartlett, a Henderson legend, put her stamp on the community
- Monday, June 17, 2013
- Now 85 and still working part-time at Meadows Bank, the self-described “old-fashioned banker” built her career at a time when many women were confined to secretarial jobs. She transcended traditional gender roles to become one of the most well-known bankers in the valley – a local celebrity of sorts.
- Flirting with short-sale fraud in Nevada could soon be less risky
- Friday, June 14, 2013
- When your house plunges in value and you can’t afford the mortgage, it can be tempting to short sell to friends or relatives and just rent from them. It’s a temptation some Las Vegans act on, even though it can send them to jail.
- Bumped from the top spot: Florida trumps Nevada in foreclosures
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- After a few months on top, Nevada no longer has the nation’s highest foreclosure rate. It has the second highest. One in every 305 homes statewide had a foreclosure-related filing last month.
- The place to schmooze with hundreds of business and government leaders
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- Two thousand people are expected to converge downtown today for the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Expo. The trade show at the World Market Center is slated to include 170 exhibitors.
- Developer attains 'a real little gem' in ManhattanWest, now the Gramercy
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- The mothballed ManhattanWest project, a visible scar of Las Vegas’ building bust, has been sold for pennies on the dollar and is earmarked for completion.
- Doing business in Henderson just got easier for some owners
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
- Some Henderson business owners can now apply online for a new business license.
- Median price of previously owned homes is up 33 percent from 2012
- Monday, June 10, 2013
- Home prices kept climbing in Las Vegas last month but remained well below the prices of the hyper-inflated boom years. The median price of a previously owned single-family home sold in Southern Nevada in May was $170,000, up 33 percent.
- No shock here: Las Vegas is light on technical jobs
- Sunday, June 9, 2013
- Las Vegas’ economy relies heavily on gamblers, conventioneers and vacationers. It’s a service economy — and, perhaps not surprisingly, it’s nearly dead last in the country for its share of technical jobs.
- FDIC closes North Las Vegas bank; will reopen under different ownership
- Thursday, June 6, 2013
- Financial regulators have shut down 1st Commerce Bank of North Las Vegas, marking Southern Nevada’s first bank failure in two years.
- So long, Shenandoah? Wayne Newton expects to move into newly purchased home by month's end
- Wednesday, June 5, 2013
- After buying a lavish nearby mansion, Wayne Newton is moving out of the bitterly contested Casa de Shenandoah — and he’s taking his Arabian horses with him. The famed crooner, who has lived at the iconic Las Vegas estate since the 1960s, plans to leave by month’s end with his wife, Kathleen, and their daughter, Lauren, a person familiar with the matter told the Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday.
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