A mom-and-pop casino in Las Vegas is set to close in the fall, after Sin City's rip-off prices sent tourism into freefall.

We were never alone, until recently at least. Just as there are multiple giraffe species in Africa, there were multiple human species, and some overlapped in time and space.

It’s the start of a new school year at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Students and parents are making final preparations ahead of the first day of classes.

Monday, UNLV will welcome more than 8,000 new students — and a record 33,000-plus overall — to what I often describe as the greatest accelerator of human potential ever developed: an access-oriented, urban-serving Carnegie R1 research university.

Mississippi has the lowest portion of passport holders in the United States, a new study has found. The study by the travel company Rustic Pathways, which ranked U.S. states by the percentage of residents who hold a valid passport, revealed that residents in the south and Midwest are the least likely to have the documents needed to cross U.S. borders.

Flight data from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas shows a significant decline in Canadian tourism.

Flight data from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas shows a significant decline in Canadian tourism.

The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students that is being challenged in court — a move that could jeopardize the millions in funding Nevada’s five Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) receive each year.

Immigration policies and evolving tariff proposals have taken a toll on the city’s economy and job prospects, affecting tourism, housing and the cost of living. Those factors, alongside rising costs for tourists and locals, along with a high unemployment rate, suggest people are spending their money elsewhere. And residents are feeling the squeeze.