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It's been almost a year since the tragic shooting at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Three professors lost their lives as a result of the incident on Dec. 6, 2023. The murals honor the memory of those lost.
A University of Nevada at Las Vegas report focused on Black businesses in the Mountain West region of the country — including Salt Lake City, the Provo-Orem corridor and the Ogden-Clearfield region — reveals that Black-owned businesses account for 0.3% of all businesses in the area. In other words, a Black-owned business in Salt Lake City was not on the expected winner list.
Hoarding Disorder is a condition marked by continuing difficulty in discarding possessions regardless of their monetary value due to a perceived need to save the objects. As a result, numerous items accumulate in the household leading to substantial distress and deleterious effects on health, safety, and social and occupational functioning. Since 2013, this disorder has been listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) as a stand-alone disorder while previously it was clubbed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Get ready to pay at a Las Vegas marijuana dispensary, and the substance’s illicit status at the federal level becomes quickly apparent. Cash, yes, please. Debit card, maybe. Credit card, no cannabis for you.
We do it sitting in a tree, under the mistletoe, at midnight to ring in the new year. In fairytales, the act transforms frogs into princes and awakens heroines from enchanted slumber. We make up with it, seal with it, and – in Romeo Montague’s case at least – die with it.

Above the store sits several apartments that house writers from UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute literary program. Cohen said the name of the store references the “block” of writers living in the building, instead of the affliction that prevents people from writing.
When members of the 2025 Legislature take the oath of office in February, there will be a lot of new faces. A total of 15 lawmakers — representing 105 years of legislative experience — will not be returning to Carson City because they ran for other offices, chose not to seek re-election, were forced to quit by term limits or were defeated.
The building that housed the Holy Cow Casino and Brewery, on the northeast corner of Sahara and the Strip, made Las Vegas history for a couple of big reasons.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada has never missed a Thanksgiving meal since the program’s inception in 1965.