This summer has been the hottest on record in Southern Nevada, with temperatures of up to 120 degrees resulting in a spate of heat-related illnesses and hundreds of deaths. Even worse, summers are only expected to get hotter in coming years because of global warming, said Steffen Lehmann, a professor of architecture and urbanism at UNLV.

Las Vegas is unlike any other place in America. Each year it draws more than 40 million visitors to the dazzling casinos and hotels that “turn night into daytime”—and transform the city into a glittering jewel in the desert. With 164,000 hotel rooms, Las Vegas is the largest hospitality market in the U.S.—outpacing Orlando, Florida, the next biggest market, by approximately 15 percent, according to JLL.

The monsoon season and the rain it usually produces has been abnormally dry this summer in Las Vegas. The season, which runs from June through mid-September, has dropped just 0.08 inches of rain here, according to the National Weather Service.

For the more than 40 years he has lived in Nevada, Jose Solorio says political campaigns have never been quite able to truly crack the state’s Latino community. The 65-year-old lobbyist and community advocate is not the first to emphasize the well-worn bit of political wisdom that the Latino community is not a monolith, with voting behaviors differing greatly by their immigration experience, age and Spanish proficiency. But after all these years and close elections, he says political parties are still grappling with this dynamic.

The economic impact of American Latinos increased by over 60% from 2010 to 2022, according to a report from UCLA released last week. The yearly United States Latino GDP study found that, independent from the rest of America’s gross domestic product, U.S. Latino GDP would be the fifth-largest economy in the world — ahead of India and the United Kingdom, among others.

I'll never forget the first time I heard my now-husband talking to himself in the bathroom. We were only dating at the time, and I was convinced there was something wrong with this guy. Fast forward 10 years of marriage, two kids, and several moves, and I've learned to accept this quirk.

The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners reported the number of medical doctors’ licenses issued for the first half of the year is up 63% compared to last year. That’s enough licenses to bring Nevada’s number of doctors to nearly 17,000. While those numbers are helpful in the fight against our ongoing doctor shortage some Las Vegas doctors say those numbers could be misleading.

For many operators, responsible gaming requires a commitment to let wagerers know it is best to gamble within their means. But the focus on responsible gaming comes to the fore in September during Responsible Education Gaming Month.

Since November of 2020, Riana Durrett has served as the Vice Chair of the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board, the regulatory agency for the billion-dollar Nevada cannabis industry. A graduate of the Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Durrett previously served nearly six years as the Executive Director of the Nevada Cannabis Association (formerly Nevada Dispensary Association) and simultaneously serves as the Director of UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute, which regularly hosts impactful events featuring very notable cannabis professionals and regulators from other states with recreational cannabis as far away as Maine.