From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas he planned to put the issue of reducing drug costs at the center of his politics and political agenda.

“It’s not just your health,” Biden said in the lobby of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. “It’s about your dignity. It’s about your security. That’s why my administration is focused intensely, intensely in getting more people affordable health care.”

President Joe Biden during a speech at UNLV Wednesday touted recent legislative victories seeking to rein in prescription drug prices and vowed to build on efforts to reduce health costs.

Biden opened his speech thanking healthcare workers in the room before stating, "almost 100,000 Nevadans get their healthcare from [the Affordable Care Act], and nearly 300,000 get their healthcare from expanded medicare."

During his speech, Biden frequently addressed the scrubs- and white coat-clad students and faculty from UNLV’s health sciences programs, including the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, who filled in rows on a staircase under a banner reading “Lowering costs for American families.”

Las Vegas visitors are spending more money gambling, according to a study released Tuesday. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's annual "visitor profile" report showed that visiting gamblers had a gaming budget of just over $761 in 2022.

Our Lady Rebels are on their way to the Big Dance! On Tuesday, the UNLV women's basketball team headed to Louisiana to take on Michigan in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

The parent companies of regional banks in Nevada tried to assuage client concerns after trading in their shares was temporarily halted several times on Monday as panic spread among investors after the collapse of two big banks.

The highest number of monkeypox (mpox) cases in the world is reported in the United States, with a total of 30,225 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of March 1, 2023, 38 deaths had been recorded.