With exactly one month until Election Day, the two major party presidential campaigns and their top surrogates are beaming with optimism as they grind through the final push to a contest years in the making.

Hundreds of Nevada university students will be trained and employed as contact tracers to help identify and inform people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

After closing its doors in March, Piero’s Italian Cuisine will begin serving customers again today, with limited hours and a limited menu. General manager Evan Glusman, whose family founded the restaurant in 1982, is excited to begin seating customers again.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to upend the global travel industry, but hospitality schools aren’t rushing to overhaul their curriculums around how to operate a travel business — yet.

In order to keep water from evaporating from the soil, farmers will often cover the ground around their crop plants with sheets of polyethylene plastic. There could soon be a more eco-friendly alternative, though, in the form of soybean oil-coated sand.

The UNLV School of Public Health received a $3.4 million state grant to expand its COVID-19 contact tracing program.

The UNLV School of Public Health received a $3.4 million state grant to expand its COVID-19 contact tracing program.

Nevada’s higher education system is urging incoming and current college students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which became available Thursday.

“Before March 2020, Nevada led the country in producing new jobs,” said Jonas Peterson, president and CEO, Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance (LVGEA). “Our economic development plan was working, and our economy was consistently becoming more diverse.” Across the state, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, technology and healthcare sectors were growing. In February, Nevada’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent.