Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas and Southern Nevada are chock-full of planned communities. The region is also struggling with some of the harshest declines in property values in the nation. Though planned communities are seeing some sales, they are mainly in trouble.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is officially opposing the residential use of gray water, arguing that it diminishes the replenishment of Lake Mead and, ironically, discourages water conservation.

A magnetic levitation train link between Anaheim and Las Vegas has been on the table for 30 years. Now could be the time the project finally gets enough traction to go from idea to reality.

This article looks at what the end of sprawl will mean for Las Vegas.

Residents of one Las Vegas community fear being evicted as an urban renewal project goes underway. According to this article, projects like this often hurt neighborhoods by destroying the social ties they once contained.

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.