Wynn Resorts and CEO Craig S. Billings have created a $2 million endowment to fund the Craig S. Billings Endowed Scholarship. The program will support children of eligible Wynn employees in North America who pursue undergraduate degrees at UNLV’s Lee Business School, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering or the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.

Annual Nevada cannabis sales dropped to $758 million from July 2024 to June 2025, down from $829 million over the prior fiscal year, according to state Cannabis Compliance Board data released last week. But as in other states with declining sales revenue, Nevada cannabis retailers aren’t selling less product, according to one observer.

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“Our analysis of the sales, unequivocally shows that people were not buying less, the prices were just going down,” Riana Durrett, executive director of the UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute, said. “And that is natural, and that’s expected to happen.”

The fund will support the children of qualifying employees at Wynn Resorts’s entities in North America who are pursuing undergraduate degrees at UNLV’s Lee Business School, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, or William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.

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CareSource, the nonprofit overseeing Nevada’s current Medicaid managed care contract, is donating $300,000 to improve health outcomes across the state. The funding will support efforts to improve maternal and child health, increase immunization awareness, and address social determinants of health — all priorities identified in last year’s Southern Nevada Health District Community Health Assessment. Half of the funding will go to UNLV’s School of Public Health and the Nevada Community Health Coalition for research. The remaining funds will be distributed to up to six Nevada-based nonprofits and research teams.

Wynn Resorts and its CEO have announced a $2 million endowment for scholarships to benefit children of the company's employees attending UNLV. The first scholarships from the Craig S. Billings Endowed Scholarship for the Children of Wynn North America Employees will be awarded for the fall 2027 semester, UNLV announced on Monday.