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Boosting your financial well-being is a worthwhile goal, regardless of income level, tax bracket or savings. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, financial well-being “describes a condition wherein a person can fully meet current and…

Chris Curtis relocated to Las Vegas in January and immediately began training more intensely than he had at any other point in his 10-year professional mixed martial arts career. Twice a week, the 32-year-old Cincinnati native engages in double sparri…

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A 2019 UNLV graduate, Natnael Gebremariam knows the stresses of figuring out how to pay for college. “I applied for scholarships and grants, basically anything that I could get to …

Recreational marijuana isn’t legal at the federal level, meaning there are no federal standards or regulations for approving cannabis products for sale. That leaves policymaking up to each state.

In 2017, the first year it was legal to grow industrial hemp in Nevada, Harris Farms began cultivating it outdoors on a 10-acre plot north of Pahrump. By 2018, a federal reclassification removed the hemp plant from being labeled as a controlled substa…

Some of our favorite haunts are missing but Las Vegas still offers a great variety of Halloween attractions for Spooky Season.

In January, census workers will begin counting the population in the western Alaskan community of Toksook Bay, the first step in the decennial population count that will determine representation in the House of Representatives, boundaries of legislati…

The Rebels’ No. 1 golfer can earn his PGA Tour card for two years and entry into major tournaments if he can parlay a sponsorship exemption into a PGA Tour victory.

Across America, bud is blooming. Outdoor cannabis cultivators are preparing to harvest their crop this month, marking the end of an eight-to 10-month annual process. The seeds of many cannabis strains grown outdoors are planted in the winter, sprout i…