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Once dubbed "Scarlett" for her dramatic and determined efforts to keep Southern Nevada in water, Pat Mulroy stands in a replica of a water pipe at Las Vegas Springs Preserve.

For Want of Water

Headlines:

• Prove it won't pump Snake Valley dry
• Water: The more you use, the more you’ll have to pay
• A beetle can save our water

Las Vegas was first settled for its springs, springs that made it an oasis in the desert. Although those springs have decades since run dry, water is still the most import resource to Las Vegas and the dry Southwest. And by all indications the region is only going to get dryer.

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Index

Collected coverage on a full range of topics, compiled regularly by Sun editors.

Events

• General Election 2008
• Primary Election 2008
• 2008 Monte Carlo fire
• Rebels Down Under
• 2008 Caucus recap
• "21" the movie

People

• Gibbons v. Gibbons
• Harry Reid
• O.J. Simpson

Issues

• Sunday Conversations
• Construction Deaths
• Painful Painkillers
• Indentured Doctors
• Water Crisis
• Hepatitis scare
• Real Estate
• Yucca Mountain
• The shooting of Deshira Selimaj
• Pure Investigation
• Coal Power Plant Debate
• Area 51

Construction Deaths

Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed serious safety flaws on the ... Continue...

Featured Headlines:

• Ironworkers push feds to restore safety law
• Unions’ pressure on Ross spurred CityCenter walkout
• Pace is the new peril

Indentured Doctors

Across the United States, foreign doctors are being worked to exhaustion, cheated out of wages, coerced into unfair contracts and diverted away from the medically needy patients they're supposed to serve. Their bosses can bully them because they sponsor their ... Continue...

Featured Headlines:

• Reid, Chertoff: Enemies, Friends
• Foreign doctors get new guardians

Real Estate in Crisis

The subprime mortgage crisis is hitting the Las Vegas metro area particularly hard. In fact, Nevada has the highest foreclosure rate in the country and the metro area is consistently one of the top five worse in the nation. The ... Continue...

Featured Headlines:

• Experts lack easy answers
• Republicans defy dogma, soften on mortgage help