With a 5.5 percent unemployment rate, Nevada still trails every other U.S. state. In Clark County, the rate is lower, at 4.9 percent, according to 2023 Census estimates. For ages 20 to 24 in Las Vegas, the unemployment rate is 8.2 percent. For ages 25-29, it’s 6.6 percent. Meanwhile, Nevada’s unemployment rate for educated residents has steadily declined in recent years, and the state’s hiring rate, 3.9 percent, beats most other states, suggesting a strong labor market.

In the latest Weed Wonks episode, Jordan Wellington hosts Mary Jane Oatman, founder of the Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association, and Riana Durrett, vice chair of the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board, for a conversation about tribal cannabis businesses. They discuss the cannabis-related policies and politics of tribal communities, what it takes to make tribal cannabis businesses successful, and what these companies and the cannabis hospitality industry can learn from one another.

Telling teens not to text and drive might be outdated soon. It turns out, young drivers aren’t using their phones to send messages behind the wheel — they’re using it to for entertainment purposes while driving.

Hundreds of Nevada residents from Honduras and Nicaragua who have been shielded from deportation for a quarter-century are set to lose their temporary protection after the Trump administration announced Monday that it was revoking their legal status.

A new report offers hope for more than 57 million people suffering from dementia. The report, released by the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, looks at dozens of promising drug trials that could one day help find a cure for the disease.

Millionaires have been flocking to Las Vegas at unprecedented rates and buying up lavish properties, a new study has revealed. From 2019 to 2023, the number of millionaires moving to the Sin City metropolitan area has boomed by 166 percent, according to Rent Cafe, which crunched numbers from Census Bureau data.

The Molasky family late last month hosted the grand opening of their 16th senior affordable housing community, a 195-unit complex near Silverado Ranch with high-class amenities not usually provided on-site to people living on low or fixed incomes.

Drinking alcohol is widely prevalent in the United States despite its well-recognized deleterious health sequelae. Alcohol comes in various forms (e.g., beer, wine, rum, whisky, etc.), but all of them contain ethanol; thus, the health risks are the same regardless of the form.