The land will soon be transferred to UNLV and the city of North Las Vegas from the Bureau of Land Management.
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The movie studio would be built at the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park in southwest Las Vegas, but that depends on a bill clearing the Nevada Legislature.
More than half of the 120-acre tech park in the southwest valley is still undeveloped but a film studio and more are in the works.
UNLV’s medical school is working to bring more physicians to Las Vegas to help fill the shortage or health care professionals and to help train more.
KFC is offering free college tuition for its employees in Nevada thanks to a partnership with nonprofit online school Western Governors University.
The AGA adopted a new responsible marketing code that bans sportsbooks from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering and with student athletes through NIL deals.
Brett Abarbanel was named executive director of the UNLV International Gaming Institute, and she credits basement poker games for piquing her interest in gambling research.
Seven Las Vegas-area students are among 22 recipients of a new $20,000 Caesars Entertainment scholarship honoring Eldorado Resorts founder Don Carano.
Las Vegas Business Academy, which mentoring the next generation of business leaders, is also partnering with a Chinese organization.
The program for college students includes a $15-per-hour wage for a maximum of 40 hours per week and housing at Red Rock Resort, Sunset Station, Palace Station or Green Valley Ranch.
The initiative’s founders at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute hope to better define the lines between safe and unsafe gambling, identify potential policy gaps and apply research to real-world settings.
For hotels, resorts and the hospitality industry at large, the new era of higher-tech and lower-touch ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely here to stay.
Amazon announced Thursday it would invest $1.2 billion by 2025 into expanding a program that gives education and skills training benefits to thousands of its U.S. employees.
Back-to-school shoppers in the Silver State are expected to spend $481.4 million on clothes, supplies, food and electronics this year, an all-time high for the state, the Nevada Retail Association said Thursday.
A report issued by the university’s International Gaming Institute considers harm of marketing to vulnerable populations and positioning of offshore companies.