More than five decades ago, Nevada gaming regulators considered any legalized gaming outside of the Silver State as a foreign business operation.

Walking onto the Wisconsin Street property last week, the weight of what’s there hits you like a stone foundation. Exposed through careful hand excavation is a stretch of stone foundation very clearly laid out in the shape of half a cross.

The Academy Awards have existed since May 1929. In that time, only three women have won the Oscar for Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow for 2008’s The Hurt Locker, Chloe Zhao for 2020’s Nomadland and Jane Campion for 2021’s The Power of the Dog. That’s three out of 95 Best Director trophies awarded to women—and all of them given only within the past 15 years.

In the year of Our Lord 2023, you’d expect sex positivity to extend to people with sexually transmitted diseases – but why does contracting something like HPV feel like a dating death sentence?

The International Gaming Standards Association’s board has approved the committee’s creation.

Newly approved anti-amyloid therapies have spurred hope for patients and caregivers affected by Alzheimer's disease, but access to these drugs could be stymied by a lack of convenient and available beta-amyloid testing options.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's world-renowned trip to China has come to an end, with major differences between the U.S. and China remaining over Taiwan that have lingered for decades, though Congressional Republicans are critical of Blinken. Disappointed by the visit, and Blinken's public statement in China that the United States "does not support" Taiwan independence has also aroused criticism from the opposition. Some Republican members of Congress said that Taiwan has become independent, and no matter what Blinken says, it cannot change this fact.

All stories start somewhere – even the incomprehensibly vast expanse above us has a beginning. Scientists have long studied the cosmos, searching for answers to the “how’s” and “why’s” of life, and that effort continues to this day.

The Nevada Women’s Film Festival is back this weekend. The festival is in its 9th year and it’s the only festival in Nevada to showcase women in film in key creative positions.