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When the bottom fell out of the mortgage market in the run-up to the Great Recession, Las Vegas homeowners found themselves at the epicenter of a catastrophe. Nearly one in four who bought new homes at the housing market’s peak in 2007 fell into foreclosure. For buyers of existing homes, whose values plunged even more dramatically, default claimed closer to half. Nevada led the nation in foreclosures for 62 straight months during the Great Recession.
Ted Bundy’s heinous crimes are back in the headlines with a documentary and a movie.
The rebranding of Stratosphere comes as Golden seeks to create buzz around the resort’s new amenities and drive more traffic.
Your genes may hold clues to your optimal diet plan.
That’s what 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researcher Martin Schiller advocates with his new business, Food Genes and Me, a website that uses genetic data to predict how eating less or more of a certain food could help ward off disease.
A century ago, America decided to get dry. We’re still feeling the effects, and Nevada was part of the whole process.
No one knows when the big one will hit Las Vegas, but that's not stopping researchers at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ from trying to predict if and when it could happen.
The city of Las Vegas plans to hold open about 85 nonessential positions to save $10 million — and dodge the kind of sweeping layoffs that struck the city a decade ago — in preparation for the next economic downturn.
After a decade in which Las Vegas rose from the depths of the Great Recession to a full recovery, this is an opportune time to look at our future and our immediate past.
