The number of open jobs was mostly unchanged in December from the previous month, leaving openings at a healthy level. The Labor Department said Tuesday job openings were flat at 5.5 million in December. Total hiring rose slightly to 5.25 million, while the number of people quitting fell.

Two people sit together in a restaurant. They appear to be a couple sharing a meal, because they order food, it’s served and they eat. But they’re not speaking to each other. Are they together? “They spent most of their time each on their phones, so much so that I thought I’d missed something, that maybe they’d gotten into a fight when I wasn’t paying attention. They looked so completely disconnected,” Katherine Hertlein says. “And at the end of the meal they got up, held hands and walked out.”

Minerals glow like stained glass in a magnified cross-section of a Martian meteorite. A hypnotic swirl of spikes grows at the center of an aloe plant in a natural expression of mathematics’ golden ratio.

Las Vegas’ prostitutes can’t tell you how business is going. There are no union spokespersons, no profit-and-loss statements … really, there’s not even a number you can call to ask (unless your follow-up question is along the lines of “how soon can you get here”). Kate Hausbeck Korgan, Interim Dean of UNLV’s Graduate College and co-founder (with Barbara Brents) of the university’s Sex and Body Industry Research Project (SABIR), spoke with the Weekly about the current state of this shadow industry.

Ashlen Atkinson comes from a family of special education teachers.

That’s why it seemed natural for Atkinson, a first-year special education teacher at West Prep Academy in Las Vegas, to pursue the same career.

A federal jury was sworn in Tuesday for the trial of six defendants accused of stopping U.S. agents at gunpoint from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy's ranch in 2014. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro scheduled opening statements for Thursday, giving attorneys and jurors a day to prepare for a trial that is expected to take up to 10 weeks.

There is not much new under the sun when it comes to television documentaries about transgender Americans.

In today’s society, gender is no longer a word with a simple definition, but rather, an entire spectrum filled with different pieces of information, and different ways to identify and express oneself. For some, the notion of gender identity is complicated to understand – but that’s exactly why it is so important to discuss. And now Katie Couric’s new documentary with National Geographic is joining the discussion.

Attending conferences related to ones chosen field is a requirement if a business person wants to excel and be engaged.