COMPTON, Calif. – Aida “Didi” Nuñez used to have a car and a job she could drive to. Then she lost her job at a community center when funding dried up. And then she had an accident and lost her car.
In the desert, water is more valuable than gold. Drought has been gripping Nevada and the region for years.
U.S. military intervention is the most visible and dramatic manifestation of American foreign policy.
Any emergency room doctor will tell you that a patient who presents with multiple injuries requires multiple interventions to save his life.
Nevada must reject any offer Congress makes to open Yucca Mountain in exchange for enhanced federal funding. The reason is simple: Any deal is not worth the risk.
About 100 miles east of Los Angeles, Palm Springs, with its cloudless skies, bright sunshine and warm temperatures, was the desert playground of golden-era Hollywood.
In the last bits of 2014, Albuquerque's economy rebounded. Sort of.
The new Brookings Mountain Monitor report said that Albuquerque's rate of job growth accelerated throughout the last quarter of 2014. The increase was the city's fastest quarterly job growth since before the recession, the report said. The report measures major cities in the Rocky Mountain region, as well as Las Vegas and Arizona cities.
Phoenix, Tucson and eight other metro areas in the Rocky Mountain region ended 2014 with solid if not robust economic gains, according to a new study.
Nevadans will vote on the legalization of marijuana in 2016. This is a historic public policy decision that several states have already faced, and one that Silver State voters will carefully consider.
One answer to the West's drought problems is building a pipeline to divert excess Mississippi River floodwater out to the West. It's been proposed, but it's also never been built. Cost is one objection.
The needs of southern Nevada’s medical sector are robust by just about every indicator out there: physicians per capita and resident vacancies, to name a few.
There's been a lot of hubbub about the effort tech whiz Tony Hsieh and his crack team of acolytes have put into revitalizing downtown Las Vegas. In case you missed it, Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, in January 2012 announced that he was putting $350 million into the Downtown Project, which would fund new businesses in an economically depressed part of the city seven miles north of the Las Vegas Strip. He also wanted to create a tech hub in a city better known for gambling and tourism, which some journalists dubbed the newest "techtopia."
The top brass of UNLV and the Nevada System of Higher Education lobbied lawmakers today for $27 million in upfront funding for a medical school in Las Vegas, instead of the $8.3 million proposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Nearly two-thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water, but a mere three percent is suitable for human consumption. Fresh water on our planet is limited.
Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz and Controller Ron Knecht, two fiscal conservatives swept into office by the Republican wave, have released an alternative Nevada budget to rival GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval’s spending plan.
A UNLV professor began the bureaucratic process of dealing with a student who had plagiarized and got mad.
He was asking for a student be held accountable while, in his opinion, the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education was getting away with the same academic sin.
“What happened to our medical school?” That is the only question I asked after Gov. Brian Sandoval’s State of the State speech a couple of weeks ago. I suppose when the governor talks about how we are doing, why we are doing it and what he is going to do next, and the only question is about the UNLV medical school, then it must have been a pretty good speech!
In a room packed with state dignitaries, reporters and political leaders, Gov. Brian Sandoval delivered a surprise in his State of the State address: a bold statement about the future of technology in Nevada.
A two-year slide in gold and quieter casino tables have opened a $170 million hole in Nevada’s budget even as its economy booms, pushing Governor Brian Sandoval to rethink dependence on mining and gambling.
North Las Vegas’ pledge to make its largest asset, the sprawling Apex industrial park, work to its advantage is starting to show signs of moving beyond talk to action.
Science, technology, engineering and math.
They’re not exactly words that inspire raucous excitement, but with a shortage of qualified workers in Southern Nevada frustrating attempts to attract and grow high-tech businesses, many community leaders aren’t talking about much else.
This week it was UNLV’s turn with their annual STEM Summit. Around 250 people from the university and beyond gathered Monday and Tuesday to discuss this year’s question: “What does the valley need?”
In UNLV vice provost and summit organizer Carl Reiber's take, these were the issues panelists considered most important:
PHOENIX — A report painted a bright economic picture for both the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas.
Brookings Mountain West and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas looked at 10 major metro areas of the Mountain West, which, as a group, outperformed the national economy during the third quarter of 2014.
Phoenix topped a list of major metropolitan areas across the U.S. Mountain West for regional job growth in the third quarter of 2014.
The metro area's 1.1 percent gain was more than double the national average – but about half the normal post-recession rate – which was good enough to place it atop the Brookings Mountain West Monitor, an economic review published with University of Nevada Las Vegas.