Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) and Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) today announced the 2024 Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit will take place Friday, Nov. 8, at Las Vegas City Hall. Registration for the state's premier youth homelessness advocacy event opens Aug. 5 at nphy.org/Summit24. With support from the UNLV Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the eighth annual Summit will continue igniting the statewide Movement to End Youth Homelessness by charting the path to build the state's first standalone plan to end youth homelessness.

Tourists flocking to Las Vegas over the July 4 holiday weekend helped fuel a surge in COVID infections, experts say. “We have an increase in viral illnesses for the Fourth of July in particular. For the summer holidays, we are always prepared for an increase in tourists visiting Las Vegas this weekend,” said Dr. Ketan Patel, medical director of the UMC Adult Emergency Department.

A year ago, an outside consulting firm started looking at Nevada’s higher education funding. Based on their recommendations, the Board of Regents is considering changing how those funds are allocated.

Democrats have rallied behind Vice President Kamala Harris since she announced her presidential run following President Joe Biden’s dropout and endorsement Sunday, but it is unclear if she will fare better than her predecessor in the critical swing state of Nevada.

No, President Joe Biden did not die nor was he “medevaced” from Las Vegas last week. After Biden was diagnosed with COVID-19, cutting his Southern Nevada trip short, rumors began spreading on social media about his health.

When checking into your flight, have you noticed a prompt asking if you'd be willing to change your trip? Alternatively, you might have heard an announcement at the gate asking for volunteers to take a later flight. Yes, it's true — most airlines overbook their flights. Booking a plane ticket doesn't actually guarantee you'll have a seat on that flight. So, why do airlines have this practice?

Earlier this month, Clark County Commission Chairman Tick Segerblom commented on Twitter that the county should change its name to “Las Vegas County,” doubling down on this in a later interview with the Review-Journal. So is Commish Tick right? How does the rocky history of contention between the county and the city of Las Vegas play into Segerblom’s proposal, and who was this Clark fella, anyhow? Today, co-hosts Sarah Lohman and Dayvid Figler sit down with UNLV professor of history Michael Green to discuss.

You know the old age: Time flies when you're having fun? Well, a recent brain study could lend some credence to the old proverb. 

Hey, we have to hide the tapes. For a time in the mid-2000s, The Mirage housed the most famous music catalog in history and hardly anyone knew it.