Author Archives: Las Vegas Weekly Stories: News

Nevada’s unemployment rate edged down to 5.3% in August, a decrease of a tenth of a percentage point from July, according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

With all the buzz this summer about mosquitoes in Southern Nevada, a group from UNLV’s School of Public Health wants to take a bite at helping control the exploding population of the biting pests.

What if Howard Hughes, Hoover Dam, or the family-friendly era had never arrived to change Sin City? It’s time to go into the Vegas multiverse and examine the possibilities of an alternative history.

The Las Vegas Aces ended the 2025 WNBA regular season in the same fashion they’ve spent the last month—by smashing records.

With nicotine use among young adults rising, local public health advocates are still working to encourage similar bans at other Nevada institutions.

Kelley in an unanimous vote today was selected to serve out the final months of Councilwoman Victoria Seaman’s term. Seaman vacated …

The Las Vegas City Council designated today as Sue Ann Cornwell Day to honor the woman who survived the 2017 mass shooting on the Strip and has spent years tending to the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden downtown.

It’s Bad Bunny’s world once again. The Puerto Rican superstar leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations this year.

Gun violence prevention advocates gathered Monday with some survivors of Nevada’s deadliest shootings in a virtual roundtable to call for sweeping reforms they say are long overdue.

President Donald Trump’s push to accelerate immigration enforcement is being felt in Las Vegas, where federal agents picked up 441 people with detainers and 173 with warrants from police custody …