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The 2025 Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit presented by Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) and Sands on Nov.14 gathered statewide leaders to address Nevada’s rising youth homelessness rates, changing policies that are impacting vulnerable youth and the ground work needed to begin building Nevada’s first standalone plan to end youth homelessness.
Drivers across the valley are being warned to slow down, pay attention, and obey the rules of the road because this holiday season, enforcement is anything but jolly. Thursday, the Grinch himself helped law enforcement crack down on dangerous driving at a busy Las Vegas crosswalk at the intersection of Flamingo and Mojave Road. Agencies involved include CCSD Police, LVMPD traffic, North Las Vegas police, Henderson police, and the UNLV traffic unit, all working together under a zero-tolerance policy to protect pedestrians.
It's as much of a tradition as stockings, trees and gifts. Movies are a staple of the holiday season too! On ARC Las Vegas we talked with Adam Paul, assistant professor of film at UNLV, about what makes these iconic moments in cinema so special for families that keep people coming back to watch them time and time again.
Christmas trees might seem timeless today, but American decorating habits have shifted dramatically over the decades. Long before tinsel, flocking or LED lights, winter greenery carried deep symbolic meaning.
Dr. Rebecca Gill, a political science professor at UNLV, talks with us on ARC Las Vegas about the takeaways from President Trump's December 17th primetime speech and how it compares with other historical addresses.
The holiday season is upon us, and shoppers are in the homestretch of their search for gifts. But what role will the economy, dynamic pricing, and shrinkflation play in consumers’ ability — or even interest — to cross items off their wish lists?
Although pedestrians have the right of way in a crosswalk, they don’t always anticipate the possibility that a driver won’t stop, Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. David Stoddard said Thursday.
Even though the holidays are meant to be joyful, plenty of people feel the opposite way. More than three in five Americans describe the season as stressful, overwhelming, or exhausting.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.