Certain people who use cannabis tend to drink less alcohol, a new study found.

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Nearly 6,000 Airbus A320 passenger planes have now completed a round of software patches. The fix comes about a month after a software error caused a JetBlue flight to unexpectedly lose altitude and make an emergency landing. More than a dozen people were injured. Airplanes these days are a lot more than engines and wings and tiny bathrooms.

A report by UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate found that corporate investors bought 23% of the listed homes last year in the Las Vegas area. It ranks fourth among the largest U.S. metropolitan areas that report tracked, behind Miami and California cities Anaheim and San Diego.

As the holiday season approaches, shoppers are experiencing sticker shock with rising prices on popular toys.

For the first time in Nevada, a bipartisan supermajority of state lawmakers petitioned to add their own topic to an ongoing special session called by the governor. The issue seen as important enough to cross the aisle over: corporate homeownership. The Lied Center for Real Estate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas estimated investors owned roughly 15% of homes in the City of Las Vegas. That percentage was expected to grow both in Nevada and across the nation.

Notorious Boston kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger’s reign over the city’s criminal underworld has proven one few gangsters could emulate in real life. But in Hollywood, the high-profile, Irish American mob boss has served as a blueprint for loathsome and complex characters in several blockbuster movies and television story lines. The late Bulger’s astonishing double life as an infamous, ruthless gang leader who simultaneously served as a top-level FBI informant is considered by some to be cinema gold.

Nevada is facing a pressing doctor shortage due to a variety of reasons, including a lack of residency programs, resulting in a brain drain of doctors across the state. 8 News Now looked into what can be done to keep more doctors in Nevada.

Jennifer Wolf’s third grade son is a vocal student with a budding interest in fairness and social awareness, she told The Nevada Independent. On multiple occasions, she said “he has approached his teachers to talk through situations and share his perspective on how certain classroom moments unfolded.” Wolf’s view is increasingly popular: Enrollment in Nevada’s state charter school network is up 2.3 percentage points this year. When Nevada’s State Public School Charter Authority (SPCSA) was founded in 2011, it oversaw approximately 11,000 students. Today it oversees more than 70,000.