Las Vegas Sun

The Bureau of Land Management has reversed course on a proposed moratorium on the construction of solar projects on public land.

This article from the Las Vegas Sun asks whether siting two blatantly different architectural styles right next to each other is necessarily a bad thing.

Home to the bright lights and elaborate signage of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, may revise an ordinance to more effectively regulate the bright signs and displays that illuminate the Las Vegas Strip and other parts of the county.

An 18 million square-foot hotel and commercial resort in Las Vegas is set to become the largest LEED-certified project in the U.S. when it opens in 2009. Other builders are expected to follow the green path in Nevada, where tax breaks are generous.

Construction begins on Las Vegas' new $1.8 billion Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino, a mixed-use high rise towering over 600 feet on the strip.

The informal Las Vegas 'urban growth boundary' just keeps getting pushed further back.

Municipalities show little interest in Bureau of Land Management's program to make land available at discounted rates for affordable housing.

Three billion dollar project in Vegas emphasizes living spaces and other nongambling features.

A new report claims pollution from coal-burning power plants could be cutting Rocky Mountain snowfalls by as much as 50%. Without water, the success of the West could be its own undoing.

Henderson's desire for a neighborhood-based development exposes the boomtown's lack of city context.

Claiming that water problems won't slow growth, Sin City bets on expansion over sustainability. Some experts think the city will come up snake-eyes.

Low funding and attempts to gut environmental rules are blocking the Transportation Equity Act.

A businessman proposes high-rise student housing for the Univ. of Nevada, Reno on a part of the city's oldest cemetery.

The Las Vegas Monorail is the world's first free public transportation system to be funded entirely by the private sector.

Las Vegas' Strip offers pedestrian-friendly areas for tourists, but residents are forced to drive.

County planners are advocating land-use designations for the Las Vegas Valley that would help stem the tide of housing and commerical developments.

Officials chasing federal money to onstruct a high-speed, magnetically propelled train between Las Vegas and Anaheim, California, say powerful friends in Congress are keeping their bid alive.

City officials will be review several proposals during the next few weeks to determine the amount of funds the city is prepared to invest in downtown development.

Las Vegas City Council members and residents came out against a proposed affordable housing development citing an absence of open space.

Las Vegas real estate mogul pronounces his new hotel "the single most wonderful resort in the history of Las Vegas."