Nevada is tied with Tennessee for the sixth highest alcohol-impaired driving fatality rate in the country, according to 2023 data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The state’s laws have placed a strong emphasis on holding drunken drivers personally responsible for their actions, and lawmakers have recently increased criminal penalties for DUI fatalities. But victims’ loved ones, like Linda Sterner, are left to question whether Nevada lawmakers are more concerned with protecting businesses from liability than preventing DUIs.

While the rates of people being severely impacted by COVID have gone down drastically since the dawn of the pandemic, it’s important to still take the virus seriously. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID was associated with an estimated 290,000 to 450,000 hospitalizations and between 34,000 and 53,000 deaths between July 2024 and July 2025, the most recent year that data is available. These stats show just how much the virus is still impacting us.

Helmets are the safe way to go when it comes to riding a bike, scooter or e-device, but many people may be wearing them incorrectly.

UNLV is marking the 25th anniversary of Lied Library, highlighting how the campus’ main library evolved alongside the university’s growth into a major research institution.

An eye-opening new study is shedding light on a common travel item that’s brimming with hidden bacteria. Here’s a hint: It’s something you tote on almost every trip … but would never think to clean. Yet somehow, it has way more bacteria than the travel gear you’d expect to get filthy.

Hosted by UNLV International Gaming Institute (IGI), the event will explore the most pressing and emerging issues in gambling and gaming. Held every three years, the conference hosts the best, most high-impact risk-taking research and education. The most recent conference, held in 2023, attracted several hundred attendees from more than two dozen countries and featured research spanning economics, public policy, mathematics, social sciences, and psychology.

Dan Bubb, a former airline pilot and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says some people believe the system comes with tradeoffs.

Vena Vitals is working with surgeons at UNLV and University Medical Center on clinical studies, along with major centers including MD Anderson and UCSF.

On today's show, William Waldock & Dan Bubb join us to talk about the LaGuardia airport plane crash. Also, Ted Rossman discusses the state of housing in America.