Wastewater surveillance is becoming more widespread in the U.S. to fight COVID-19.

New UNLV AD Erick Harper will be "tasked with reinvigorating an increasingly tepid fan base amid a general lack of success within school’s two prominent revenue-generating programs: men’s basketball and football."

After a six-month national search, UNLV introduced one of its own to take over as the school’s new Athletic Director. That person is Erick Harper, and he says he has a mission of making the Rebels a championship brand.

While the numbers of people infected by the new variant of the virus increase, university students prepare for the start of a new two-month period in person.

Harry Reid died Dec. 28 at age 82, leaving behind a legacy of securing millions of acres of protected wilderness, creating Nevada’s first and only national park and keeping nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain.

Clark County officials hope that the opening this week of two new drive-through COVID-19 testing sites capable of administering an additional 40,000 tests a week will ease the demand that has led to long lines at the valley’s other main drive-thru site in Las Vegas.

Often lauded as a recession-resistant asset class, the student housing sector was able to add another feather to its cap over the course of the past year, proving that it is also pandemic-resistant. 

Last week’s unprecedented victory for an investor in his Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration dispute with Robinhood was achieved, at least in part, by having lawyers experienced with securities cases representing him and the decision to claim the firm was guilty of “negligent liquidity management,” according to a legal expert and one of the attorneys who represented Batista.

As the number of omicron cases increases in Nevada, college students are preparing to return to class next week for a new semester.