The engines that drive Las Vegas were humming once again this spring as casinos raked in record levels of gaming win, but another surge in COVID-19 infections amid stalled vaccination rates threatens to upend the city’s momentum.

Southern Nevada municipal governments have more than a half-billion dollars in federal pandemic relief funds to allocate before the end of next month. They are getting plenty of suggestions on how to spend it.

After growing fast for decades, Clark County’s population is expected to swell by another 1 million people by 2060, a recent forecast shows.

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COVID-19 cases have almost tripled in the U.S. in the last two weeks as the Delta variant explodes in pockets across the country. The cases are soaring especially in states with low vaccination rates.

The state is home to many immigrants, with roughly 1/5 of the population being from another country, which is around 600,000 individuals, or 19 percent of the population based off of 2018 data.

Nevada’s universities and colleges should join the growing list of American higher-education institutions that are requiring students to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Augustine Frizzell’s directorial debut, Never Goin’ Back, was an irreverent stoner comedy about two high-school-dropout waitresses which, though imperfect, felt fun and fresh.

A university study is predicting the population in and around Las Vegas will continue to boom over the next four decades.