Despite its abysmal doctor shortage, business boosters are hoping to make Las Vegas a hot spot for medical tourism, a long hoped-for but elusive goal.

Already in the past century, Clark County has gone from a desert train stop with a population of 3,000 to a global entertainment hub and bustling urban expanse of 2 million people. Change came rapidly to Southern Nevada, and the region continues to evolve quickly.

During the 2013 legislative session, the Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 391 establishing the “Committee to Conduct an Interim Study Concerning Community Colleges” to examine “the governance structure and funding methods for community colleges.”

Growing up in this starchy historic city in the 1990s, Jessica Duggan remembers field trips with her mother to the historic Battery neighborhood, watching tourists "doing the horse thing and the market thing." She dreamed of staying here as an adult, but had to admit: Her hometown was hopelessly uncool.

It’s not often that a major American city’s residents joke that for the best health care, you need to head to the airport.

Jim Wheeler represents Gardnerville, a little town of 5,600 people about a half-hour east of Lake Tahoe, in the Nevada Assembly. Last fall, he gained instant national notoriety when a video surfaced in which he said he would vote to support slavery if that’s what his constituents wanted. He was roundly criticized by media outlets both national and local, as well as leaders of his own party. Wheeler soon apologized.

When the City Sports running store opened here in 2006, then-manager Cami Walker found himself "begging people to come in." The store was one of the first in the new Harbor East neighborhood near the popular Inner Harbor tourist zone.

Las Vegas and Phoenix are linked by a road that narrows to two lanes, hits stoplights in a Depression-era town and until recently backed up traffic over the Hoover Dam.