As cities worldwide grapple with drought and rising temperatures, Paoletta describes how the Southwest developed a resilience ...

Much like his famed murder, what mobster Bugsy Siegel exactly ate for his final meal, a seafood dinner, is shrouded in ...

A project to bring drinking water to Gallup, the Navajo Nation and the Jicarilla Apache Nation has received a lifeline of ...

Robert De Niro faces off with Robert De Niro in the new trailer for The Alto Knights, a Barry Levinson-directed The post It’s ...

ALL my life I’ve dreamed of getting married in a Las Vegas chapel with “Elvis” in charge of altar duties – and it almost happened on my recent trip there. “Elvis” was indeed there, and he ...

Welcome to the boomtowns, southwest style. Phoenix is now the fifth largest city in the United States. The population of metro Las Vegas is nearing three million. The cities and their states proved ...

Rachel Siegel covers the economics of real estate and housing. She previously covered the Federal Reserve. She has also covered breaking news for The Post's financial section and local politics ...

Kyle Paoletta's "American Oasis" explores the history and culture of Las Vegas, Phoenix and other cities in a region that in ...

Also in 1941, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and his partner Moe Sedway made their first investment in Las Vegas when they took over the Northern horse race betting operation. A number of famous ...