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Vegas Inc

Research from the American Gaming Association shows the staggering scope of illegal gambling: Americans wager more than $673 billion annually with unlicensed operators, generating nearly $54 billion in revenue for the underground market.

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

UNLV’s fall semester started Monday by welcoming more than 33,000 students back to campus.

K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13

It might sound like science fiction, but for one startup in the valley, atmospheric water harvesting is reality. In the desert valley of Las Vegas, where water is as precious as gold, a team of researchers at WAVR is working to turn the air we breathe into the water we drink.

The Nevada Independent

In 2017, then-state Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford (D-Las Vegas) co-sponsored a major bill that would have limited state and local authorities in Nevada from cooperating in federal immigration activities. But the bill died after Ford pulled his support.

Islands

Planning to chill your drink using that hotel ice bucket? You might want to rethink it. Despite their apparent convenience, hotel ice buckets may pose a hidden health risk that many tourists overlook. ABC News tested hotel rooms for germs and found one thing in common: ice buckets, in both budget and luxury hotels, were packed with germs.

Daily Mail

A mom-and-pop casino in Las Vegas is set to close in the fall, after Sin City's rip-off prices sent tourism into freefall.

Haaretz

We were never alone, until recently at least. Just as there are multiple giraffe species in Africa, there were multiple human species, and some overlapped in time and space.

Las Vegas Sun

Monday, UNLV will welcome more than 8,000 new students — and a record 33,000-plus overall — to what I often describe as the greatest accelerator of human potential ever developed: an access-oriented, urban-serving Carnegie R1 research university.