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

The Southern Nevada economy continues to grow but with some indicators showing slower growth. That’s the big takeaway from a midyear economic outlook being presented Wednesday by UNLV professor and Center for Business and Economic Research director Stephen Miller.

“I was intimidated about knocking on a door and getting a negative reaction, but almost everyone whose door I knock on is excited, informed, engaged and willing to have a dialogue, even if they disagree with me,” Las Vegas city council candidate Steve Seroka says. “The reaction has been very positive. People are happy and surprised that a candidate comes to the door. I’ve also had my wife and family with me, and that pleases them as well.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back against critics Tuesday as he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating possible meddling by the Russians in the 2016 presidential election.

It’s been said that the first Mars explorers will have to be prepared to take one for humanity. As various studies have shown, they risk permanent neural damage as well as an increased risk of leukemia and Alzheimer’s disease. And now, scientists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas have added to this list with a new study that shows how a deep-space mission to Mars could double astronauts’ risk of getting cancer.

Liz Groesbeck is following her one true love — the brain — to medical school. But she’s open to developing a new relationship. “I don’t have much experience with things that aren’t brains,” said Groesbeck, who graduated in May from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a master’s degree in neuroscience. “But I might fall in love with another organ system.”

New research from scientists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) shows that the cancer risk for astronauts undertaking long-term missions to Mars or any other destination beyond Earth’s magnetic field is actually twice what we previously thought.

You might want to hold off on purchasing a ticket to Mars. The risk of developing cancer from the galactic cosmic rays on Mars is twice as high as originally estimated, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.