Jonah Antonio, a junior guard on the Runnin' Rebels basketball team, started a GoFundMe for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

Oil prices topped $70 a barrel Monday for the first time in over three months thanks to the latest mess in the Middle East. Higher prices at the gas pump seem sure to follow.

Las Vegas is already known as Sin City, in part for the gambling and sex work that takes place there (though it turns out that, while legal in Nevada, prostitution is actually illegal in Vegas), and for its history of ties to the mafia. But it was only in 2020 that sex toys were allowed at CES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world.

Experts say the future growth of the meetings industry may depend on new room inventory. More than 6,000 rooms are expected to be added in Las Vegas over the next two years.

Jefferson Kinney, the founding chairman of the UNLV Cellular and Molecular Brain Research Laboratory, said the lab was created, in part, to complement the brain health center’s work.

You know your toddler is ready for school when he shows any of the following: social skills, independence, and emotional maturity.

Now that the calendar has switched over to 2020, one of the reasons for optimism about the coming year is the new plan for construction of an instructional building for the UNLV School of Medicine.

When Gov. Steve Sisolak announced more than $155 million in private funds for a centerpiece building at the UNLV Medical School last November, it was the end result of nearly a decade of negotiating over an edifice that had more than once been thrown into the waste bin.

Deadly bush fires in Australia are intensifying, and efforts are underway around the world to help fire victims, including here in Las Vegas.