It’s been speculated that payday loan stores have a specific business target: low-income, minority neighborhoods and other at-risk groups.

The races for president and U.S. Senate control “may well come down to the state of Nevada,” a place where voters are as restive and angry as the rest of the country.

The casino industry needs to change. According to video gaming machine developer GameCo, U.S. casinos rely upon slot machines for three-quarters of their annual revenues, which are also a favorite of older gamblers, partially explaining why casino revenues have been on the decline for decades.

It’s a game resembling Bejeweled and Candy Crush and its inventors, two 20-year-old students from UNLV, think it could be the first skill-based game to enter casinos.

Dressing for success apparently has taken on a whole new meaning for politicians. History Professor Deirdre Clemente of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says rather than adopting the formal dress of the past, presidents are trying to appear as regular guys to make the connection with voters.

Before the world knew Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher and Keith Scott for how their lives ended — police bullets or brute force — Las Vegas had grieved such deaths.

With less than three weeks until the final presidential debate at UNLV, preparations are underway to make sure everything goes smoothly.

The price tag for the third presidential debate to be held at UNLV next month just went up.

Gov. Brian Sandoval, Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak and large group of supporters of Ainsworth Game Technology celebrated the opening of the company’s 291,000-square-foot North American headquarters in Las Vegas on Friday.