Millions of dollars in cash flow through Las Vegas casinos every day, making them ideal targets for money laundering schemes. Accordingly, the gaming industry is tightly regulated and closely monitored by both federal and state agencies to ensure that casinos are not used to launder illegitimate funds.

A new online program developed by UNLV’s Leaderverse Initiative and the Nevada Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation will offer online coursework and upskilling for people unemployed, underemployed or looking to change careers.

For many Americans, the stakes are high in next Tuesday's election, and now, some also have financial skin in the game after an appeals court has allowed betting on the races earlier this month.

Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.

Jan Jones Blackhurst has had plenty of experience putting cracks in the glass ceiling. Now, the chief executive in residence at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute, a Caesars Entertainment board member and first female mayor of Las Vegas, is preparing to share her expertise with women on the verge of taking the next step toward the C-suite with a new six-month program designed to address common barriers and challenges that women are experiencing in the corporate workplace on their path to executive level roles.

More than five decades ago, Nevada gaming regulators considered any legalized gaming outside of the Silver State as a foreign business operation.

The effort to legalize sports betting in California ran headlong into a typical challenge for competing ballot measures as they were battered by negative advertising that doomed both to spectacular failure in the most expensive ballot race in U.S. history.

The effort to legalize sports betting in California ran headlong into a typical challenge for competing ballot measures as each was battered in a torrent of negative advertising that doomed both to spectacular failure in the most expensive ballot race in U.S. history.