When the Eastside Cannery debuted in summer 2008, hundreds of people waited outside to get in Las Vegas’ newest hotel-casino on opening night. Some waited a few hours to explore the $250 million project on Boulder Highway.

Now when you walk into a Dollar Tree store, you’ll not only see items priced at $1.25, $3, and $5, you’ll also see items priced much higher. These are pretty obvious changes, but what you may not notice is the shrinkflation that might be happening in plain sight. Here’s how.

Las Vegans used to be able to brag about being a mosquito-free city — but not so much anymore. So we're bringing back a conversation with Dayvid Figler and UNLV professor Dr. Louisa Messenger about why Las Vegas is seeing a mosquito population boom and what we can do about it. Plus, host Sonja Cho Swanson kicks off the conversation with a fresh update on Dr. Messenger's latest skeeter survey results, and her 2026 mosquito forecast.

The Southern Nevada Health District has started its mosquito surveillance activity a month early due to warmer-than-normal temperatures. Many experts around the valley have already seen an uptick in mosquito sightings.

The real thing—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—arrived at McCarran airport on August 20, 1964, at about 1 a.m. A car took them to the Sahara, where they stayed in a suite—literally. About two thousand fans had come to greet them. Local officials didn’t want them going to casinos because they feared that their underage fans would follow them and get into trouble. The only outsiders to get in were a reporter and photographer from the Las Vegas Sun. One of them showed Ringo how to make the television set work.

We are warming up again this week, with a chance to hit 90 by the weekend. While some might be happy for the chance to shake off the winter blues, the warmer weather is also set to bring out mosquitoes.

Few structures shaped the modern American West like Hoover Dam. Rising from Black Canyon in the 1930s, the massive concrete arch structure, finished in the Art Deco style of the era, tamed the Colorado River, created Lake Mead and helped power a growing Southwest. But at the time, its importance to Southern Nevada was less about water and more about survival.

This research was conducted as an international joint research project involving Professor Mingon Kang of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).