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Shade Tree shelter struggles with funding cuts

About 350 women and children call the Shade Tree shelter home at night because they don’t have any other safe place to sleep. But as the number of people seeking services has gone up, funding has decreased. And Shade Tree’s financial situation could have ripple effects that could include an even greater increase of people seeking help at their shelters.

Document details costs of UNLV’s domed stadium plan

The estimated cost for UNLV’s proposed domed, 60,000-seat stadium is $548.4 million — the biggest chunk of the university’s $900 million stadium project, the Review-Journal has learned.

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Apex landfill: There’s no place like home for Las Vegas garbage

It’s Nevada’s biggest ongoing construction project, and you help build it every day. Each rotten apple, spork, pizza box and Styrofoam cup you throw out is a brick in the $300 million pyramid of trash at Las Vegas’ Apex landfill.

Three people found dead in southwest valley home

A woman and two children were found dead Friday at a southwest valley home, according to Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Lt. Ray Steiber.

Wetlands Park to open new center for visitors

The new Nature Center at heart of Clark County’s largest park will open to the public with a dedication ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday.