Building a startup is no easy task. But the heads of Ross & Snow said Las Vegas’ downtown startup community has made all the difference.

Putting the “U” in UNLV is how acting President Marta Meana described those at the university who are helping bring it future successes.

UNLV Acting President Marta Meana gives the annual State of the University address at UNLV Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.

The local economy is looking strong in Southern Nevada, but that doesn’t mean businesses shouldn’t prepare for the worst. Stephen Miller, director of UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research, shared a positive message during his “End of the Year Economic Update” at the Henderson Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast last week.

Las Vegas is having a tough time living down its sordid past. Not that sordid past. It’s our reputation as Ground Zero in the foreclosure crisis a decade ago that has Southern Nevada in the news now.

Nevada needs to do more to protect its citizens from financial exploitation and abuse.

EDGAR investigates how Michael Jordan paved the way for the likes of Usain Bolt and Roger Federer to make millions from sponsorship.

Her mother is a blackjack dealer at Caesar’s Palace, one of the mega-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, while her father works in housekeeping at another. Han, 25, grew up in Las Vegas, but went to college in the Bay Area and spent a year there working as a biochemist.