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With results still unofficial, both mayoral contests in Southern Nevada appear to be heading for November runoffs, according to update numbers.

Rick and DiAnn Beatty share how Cleveland Clinic's music therapy program at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health helps them stay connected.

A nonprofit treated about 80 local foster kids to a free day at Cowabunga Bay, giving many siblings separated in foster care a chance to reunite.

Las Vegas Metro Police are investigating a police shooting reported just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday near West Carey Avenue and North Commerce Street.

Civil rights icon Sarah Collins Rudolph, the “Fifth Little Girl” and sole survivor of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, visited Las Vegas as guest of honor at the Public Education Foundation's Juneteenth Jubilee Luncheon

Teen summer jobs are at an 80-year low. Employers are hiring fewer young people, citing an experience gap and rising minimum wages that make inexperienced youth less attractive. This decline deprives teens of vital skill development, work experience, and motivation, fostering pessimism among Gen Z. The article emphasizes that summer jobs are crucial for early workforce development. It urges states and cities to implement policies like minimum wage exemptions, hiring incentives, and liability reforms to reverse this "cruel summer" trend and provide teens essential work opportunities.

Carolina Hurricanes William Carrier spoke to FOX5 about winning the Stanley Cup, but in a different jersey in Las Vegas.

The article contrasts US and UK political cultures, noting England's unique election declarations featuring eccentric candidates like Count Binface. It then pivots to a shared challenge: a severe shortage of skilled construction workers. While major companies and philanthropies are investing in training, the real bottleneck is restrictive licensure. The "journeyman standard" requires years of broad training for all aspects of a trade, even for specialized roles. Strict apprentice-to-journeyman ratios exacerbate the problem. The author advocates for unbundling credentials into narrower, stackable certifications, similar to welding or healthcare, allowing workers to specialize and get licensed faster. This would address the talent gap, reduce housing costs, and fill hundreds of thousands of jobs, despite union resistance and inconsistent state-level regulations. England's more progressive approach to credentialing is presented as a potential solution for the US.

A growing trend sees high-end "academic-chic" hotels like Hilton's Graduate brand expanding near college campuses, even as higher education faces a severe crisis. Many institutions are grappling with budget cuts, program eliminations, and closures due to declining enrollment and financial pressures. Paradoxically, new "colleges" are emerging, often AI-focused or backed by billionaires, driven by nostalgia, a perception of permanence, and the ease of the traditional classroom model, which places financial risk on students. The author argues this tuition-based, classroom-centric model is broken. The future demands innovative work-based learning and employer-pay institutions to equip students for an AI-transformed job market, rather than perpetuating an outdated educational paradigm.

A former Whitnall Middle School teacher has been sentenced in a child porn case.