Amazon is ramping up hiring efforts as its newest North Las Vegas fulfillment center nears completion.

As he proved Tuesday at UNLV, Al Gore is a maestro at shocking and awing an audience with his presentation on climate change.

As a professor of law and the director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, Michael Kagan’s passions are twofold: make sure students get the education they need and make sure undocumented immigrants, primarily immigrant children, get a fair day in court. Kagan has kept watch over the expansion of the clinic the past few years, and while he calls its advocacy “a drop in the bucket,” he and UNLV law students are providing a service he talked about with the Weekly.

Pershing General Hospital is where many Lovelock residents get their health care. The town of less than 2,000 residents is about 90 miles from Reno. Like many of Nevada's small towns, it is difficult to hire more doctors. It has two doctors and one physician's assistant. Officials say they would like to double that.

HyperX Esports Arena will host a UNLV night on May 2 in celebration of a new partnership.

Fewer than five minutes and four questions into Al Gore’s press meeting at UNLV this week, his handler stepped, arms outstretched Christ-like, between the former vice president and the small scrum of cameras and microphones — including mine. “Thank you all very much,” he said, backing us en masse toward the door. “We’ll see you at the main event.” So much for my question.

As Macao’s leading developer of integrated resorts, Sands China Ltd. maintains a continuous focus on contributing to the local community and making it a better place to live through initiatives like Sands Cares and Project Protect, which promote a strong quality of life and foster a positive environment.

Sands China has continued its Responsible Gaming Ambassador advanced training programme, aimed at educating team members on how to create a positive environment at all the company’s properties.

The “third” estimate of U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2018 was revised downward by 0.4 percentage points to 2.2 percent at an annualized rate compared to the “initial” estimate.