Nevada’s slice of the Colorado River is already shrinking under federal shortage declarations, and starting Jan. 1, 2027, state law will bar many Las Vegas Valley properties from using any of that water on grass that nobody walks on, sits on or plays on. The Southern Nevada Water Authority launched its Water Smart Landscapes rebate… Continue reading Nevada Began Paying to Remove Grass in 1999. Starting in 2027, State Law Will Require It on Non-Residential Land.
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A Public Company Ran Nevada Casinos by 1961. MGM’s Largest Shareholder Wants to Take the Company Private in 2026.
Del Webb Corporation became Nevada’s first publicly traded casino operator six years before state law made room for companies like it. In 2026, MGM Resorts International’s largest shareholder wants to take the company private again.
Scientists Ruled Out Early Humans Living Alongside Ice Age Mammals at Tule Springs in 1963. Congress Made the Site a National Monument in 2014.
A 1962-63 dig at Tule Springs settled a decades-old scientific question and then went quiet for years. Congress protected the site in 2014 using land law that still fuels growth across the rest of the valley.
Chief Tecopa Led the Pahrump Valley’s Southern Paiute Band Through Nevada’s Settlement Era. No Recognized Tribe Holds Land There Today.
A Southern Paiute band lived in and around the Pahrump Valley for thousands of years before Nevada’s mining boom reached it, led through the era of white settlement by a chief who chose diplomacy over resistance. More than a century later, no federally recognized tribal government holds land in the valley he called home. Southern… Continue reading Chief Tecopa Led the Pahrump Valley’s Southern Paiute Band Through Nevada’s Settlement Era. No Recognized Tribe Holds Land There Today.
Nevada Licensed Steve Wynn to Run the Golden Nugget at 31. Fifty Years On, Regulators Are Still Closing the File on His Career.
Nevada built its casino-licensing system to vet organized crime out of gambling one owner at a time. Steve Wynn passed through that system as a young operator, then used the state’s later shift toward Wall Street financing to build the Strip’s first modern megaresort. Fifty years after he took over his first casino, state regulators… Continue reading Nevada Licensed Steve Wynn to Run the Golden Nugget at 31. Fifty Years On, Regulators Are Still Closing the File on His Career.
Axon Spent Five Years Inside Flock’s Business. Now It’s Walking Away, Right As Flock’s Reputation Is Questioned.
Axon invested in Flock Safety in 2020, deepened that partnership through 2024, launched a directly competing license-plate-reader product in April 2025, then cut Flock off from its evidence platform three months later without explaining why. None of it required Axon to lift a finger against Flock’s reputation — the backlash was already public, grassroots, and… Continue reading Axon Spent Five Years Inside Flock’s Business. Now It’s Walking Away, Right As Flock’s Reputation Is Questioned.
One Company Runs a Third of Clark County’s Charter Schools. Its Own Founder Owns the Building It Rents Back to Them.
Academica, a Florida-based for-profit company, manages roughly a third of Southern Nevada’s charter campuses through service contracts layered on top of nonprofit school boards. One of those contracts routes public per-pupil funding through a warehouse-district property owned by Academica’s own founder, at more than five times the going commercial rate. Nevada’s Legislature tried to ban… Continue reading One Company Runs a Third of Clark County’s Charter Schools. Its Own Founder Owns the Building It Rents Back to Them.
The BID Taking Over The Arts District
A new Business Improvement District petition whose organizing board includes the neighborhood’s largest private developer and a commercial landlord that won’t say who owns it. The actual private-equity exposure in the district runs through separate channels. What “the bid” actually is A group of Arts District property and business stakeholders filed a petition Sept. 2,… Continue reading The BID Taking Over The Arts District
The U.S. Sued Over Truckee River Water Rights in 1913 on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe’s Behalf. A Final Decree Didn’t Come for 31 Years.
Reno, Sparks and the farms of the Lahontan Valley still divide Truckee River water today under an operating agreement signed in 2008 and a court decree that dates to 1944 — the end point of a fight over the river that the federal government first took to court in 1913, on behalf of the Pyramid… Continue reading The U.S. Sued Over Truckee River Water Rights in 1913 on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe’s Behalf. A Final Decree Didn’t Come for 31 Years.
Hoover Dam’s Construction Workers Walked Off the Job in August 1931. The Government Deputized Marshals to Keep Six Companies Building.
Nevada’s construction workforce today can organize, strike and sue under federal labor law. None of that existed for the roughly 21,000 people who built Hoover Dam under a private contractor’s total control of their jobs, their housing and their town. When Six Companies’ workers walked off the job in August 1931, the federal government’s response… Continue reading Hoover Dam’s Construction Workers Walked Off the Job in August 1931. The Government Deputized Marshals to Keep Six Companies Building.
