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Findings from researchers at UNLV show a major housing issue for Nevadans. According to the Lied Center for Real Estate, 40 percent of all newcomers to Las Vegas are moving here from California. They analyzed income data from the LRS and discovered those Californians are coming here with more cash in their pockets to buy a home than an average Nevada homebuyer.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and Nevada State Police are working on a first-of-its-kind partnership focusing on the mental health of troopers. It’s all about managing stress to improve their personal and professional lives.
On the evening of October 5, 1969, Gerald Davis stepped out of his house in West Las Vegas to fix his mother’s car and noticed police officers had pulled over a taxicab nearby. Known by residents as the “Westside,” this Black-majority area is located west of downtown, literally divided by the railroad tracks running through the city. Patrol vehicles were a familiar sight on the Westside, though younger residents claimed the police seemed less interested in civil service and more prone to brutality and intimidation.
Californians moving to Nevada earn about a third more than in-state residents who didn’t move, according to a new study by UNLV.
In what some attorneys are calling the largest "whitewashing" of a broker’s public record they've ever seen, a rep who headed UBS’s defunct Yield Enhancement Strategy (YES) was able to get Finra to expunge 29 arbitration cases against him that led to more than $30 million in client awards.
Mass timber is an appealing alternative to energy-intensive concrete and steel, which together account for almost 15 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Though experts are still debating mass timber’s role in fighting climate change, many are betting it’s better for the environment than current approaches to construction. It relies on wood, after all, a renewable resource.
The Down Syndrome Connections Las Vegas announced DS Connect24, the 3rd Annual Las Vegas Down Syndrome Conference was held on Saturday. October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. The event was held at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine on the campus of UNLV.
On a Wednesday afternoon under a blazing sun and clear blue sky, Claudia Monreal and Artenasa Orocco pulled up on a neighborhood street in east Las Vegas. Armed with political flyers and an app on a phone showing where to go, they began knocking on doors as the temperature in Nevada approached 100 degrees.
If you're reading this, you've probably been on your fair share of flights. And while you may understand the science behind how planes fly, there's still something magical about the idea of soaring through the air at over 400 miles an hour. One more thing that seems to work like magic? Airplane toilets.