The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance's 2018 outlook says the forecast for southern Nevada's economy is sunny.

When researchers seek to determine a single or primary cause for a human health problem, they know they're battling uphill. Our environments are complex, multifaceted, and permeated by a seemingly infinite number of factors that could shape us. Rare is the circumstance that is so ideal, at least from a researcher's perspective, that one can sift through the noise and emerge with a definitive root of an issue.

The numbers tantalize leery minds: Housing prices, population growth and job creation in Southern Nevada all rebounded from the Great Recession over the past few years.

The “third” estimate for U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2017 was revised upward to a 3.1 percent annualized rate, which is 0.1 percentage point higher than the “second” estimate. The upward revision reflected a slightly higher increase in private inventory investment than previously thought. U.S. nonfarm employment lost 33,000 jobs, which is the first job loss in seven years.

A new report highlights the inequities still present in society that disproportionately burden African American, Native American and Latino children.

For Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the 1986 Reagan tax cut was a golden moment for economists and tax policy wonks, worthy of celebration.

The hearty American consumer appears to have considered the largest mass shooting in modern American history — been saddened by it, and a little worried — and decided not to end a love affair with Las Vegas.

What actually happens when businesses look to relocate to Nevada?

Wage growth in the nation’s economy looks better when compared to a more subdued inflation as the U.S. economy continues to improve, Stephen Miller, UNLV economics professor and director for the Center for Business and Economic Research, said Friday.

Ian McCue is a 17-year-old entrepreneur from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is an Economics major at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and plans to graduate in 2019. Although he comes from a successful family in the business world, he is the first entrepreneur. At the young age of 15, McCue built a profitable business and also co-authored the book, How Any Kid Can Start a Business with Shark Tank Winner, Shaan Patel and Mark Cuban.

It’s a bit of feast or famine when it comes to construction jobs in Western states. That is according to new jobs data from the Associated General Contractors.

Several factors point toward slower growth, but the recovery from the 2008 Great Recession is almost complete.