The Southern Nevada Health District has confirmed the season’s first cases of West Nile virus, underscoring an urgent public health alert. According to a press release from the agency, a man in his 60s contracted the non-neuroinvasive form of the virus, while a man in his 70s faced the more severe neuroinvasive type, which causes inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), or inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

Skokie, Illinois is about 15 miles north of downtown Chicago. It’s a diverse village of about 65,000 people, and while it’s just beyond city limits and certainly maintains a small-town feel, it’s essentially a Chicago suburb.

One of the first major retail centers in Las Vegas is poised for a makeover. Commercial Center, known for being the home of the original Lotus of Siam Thai restaurant, and for longtime residents, the Ice Palace, which played host to notable music acts in the 1960s-80s, including the Doors, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.

A University of Nevada-Las Vegas law professor said the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has issued major decisions, dramatically changing the country's legal landscape.

U.S. Rep. Susie Lee says Democrats need to discuss their future as some in the party call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race because of concerns about his mental acuity. But Lee’s colleagues in the Nevada delegation who responded to the Current are standing with Biden.

U.S. Rep. Susie Lee says Democrats need to discuss their future as some in the party call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race because of concerns about his mental acuity. But Lee’s colleagues in the Nevada delegation who responded to the Current are standing with Biden.

Violation of a non-compete agreement has been central to Wynn Resorts’ lawsuit against Fontainebleau over poaching of senior executives. Wynn claims the new resort hired nine of its executives and encouraged workers to violate their employment contracts.

On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a 1984 ruling that gave government agencies broad discretion to interpret "ambiguous" laws. "Critics have long complained that Chevron deference allowed bureaucrats to usurp a judicial function and systematically disadvantaged 'the little guy' in disputes with an overweening administrative state," wrote Reason's Jacob Sullum of the Friday decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce.