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Like much of the rest of the country, inflation has fully arrived in Las Vegas. A July 2025 report from the local Las Vegas news station, KTNV, dove into just how hard locals are being hit by the cost of living increases that have been ramping up nationwide since January.
Teachers from across the Clark County School District are receiving specialized training at UNLV to better support local students who speak English as a second language through a program designed to help both students and teachers succeed.
As artificial intelligence explodes worldwide, a Las Vegas Valley cybersecurity expert explained how scammers can take advantage of the technology to create targeted attacks.
Las Vegas is still a far cry from the depths of the Great Recession or the early days of the pandemic. But overall, Southern Nevada’s economy and job market have slowed. At the same time, locals still face elevated prices on everyday goods after a stretch of high inflation and a housing market that, according to UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate, is now “largely unaffordable for much of the local population.”
Although the First Amendment offers broad free speech protections, a local attorney said courts have become increasingly tolerant of school policies that restrict speech they deem disruptive — a trend that could affect the employment prospects of Clark County teachers sidelined for posting on social media about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Gregory Brown still remembers the feeling of watching history unfold as he received the news of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel. Brown, a UNLV history professor and Jewish American, said he felt fearful at the time over how the attacks could spur a global increase in antisemitism. But in the past two years, he has aimed to turn the tragedy into a learning opportunity for students and faculty at UNLV.
The number of old buildings in Clark County is going to dramatically increase over the next decade, according to a new study.
The reorganization efforts will focus on “advancing campus-wide initiatives to build a climate of engagement and collaboration among all campus groups and members of the university community,” Heavey said.
Sweden’s latest advertising campaign is going big on the health benefits of travel, so big in fact, that it claims travel to the country should be recommended by doctors. Visit Sweden’s ad is of course tongue-in-cheek, but the message that there’s a clear link between travel and well-being is a welcome strategy for those of us in the travel industry.