It may be decades away, but 26-year-old Alison Scott is worried about retirement. The Las Vegas resident is working as a nanny as she pursues an acting career. With expenses such as rent, groceries, gasoline, insurance and medical care adding up every month, she hasn’t had a chance to put away much in savings.
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Employers, analysts, educators and members of governmental organizations gathered Thursday in Las Vegas for the Governor’s Education to Workforce Summit.
The MOB Nation, a Portland, Oregon-based organization for mothers who own businesses, launched chapters in Las Vegas and Henderson this month.
A new program from NV Energy could relieve range anxiety for electric vehicle owners by offering incentives for businesses, municipalities and others to install more charging stations across the state.
Nearly a year after walking away from plans to build a $1 billion electric car manufacturing factory in North Las Vegas, Los Angeles-based car manufacturing company Faraday Future has announced a new main shareholder.
More than a dozen mayors and company leaders were in Las Vegas on Monday to discuss opportunities in their cities to create jobs and advance infrastructure.
A heist took place in the Silverton casino in the summer of 2017. It had all the basic ingredients of a Hollywood movie: spy gadgets, angry pit bosses and henchmen carrying firearms.
NV Energy discovered Thursday morning that a damaged insulator on a pole north of Sandy Valley’s Quartz Road was allowing electricity to run free, leading to the outages. The issue worsened when temperatures rose mid-day and the metal supporting the insulators expanded.
Community-based nonprofit agency Nevada Partners is hoping to double its reach through a new workforce center, which would provide employment and training services youth and the unemployed or underemployed.
Tech accelerator AFWERX Vegas, which opened in January off Sands Avenue and Paradise Road, opened the doors to its new innovation hub Tuesday afternoon.
Las Vegas’ farming industry may seem as dry as the desert, but Southern Nevada’s agriculture sector is just a bit harder to find than most. To discover rows upon rows of basil, green butter lettuce, mint and even cannabis in Las Vegas, you’ll have to step inside.
Southern Nevada’s growth is outpacing the national rate. A recent report predicts this growth to continue in upcoming years, unless it is dampened by national and international issues, like fiscal policy and a potential trade war.
A group of 25 business and community leaders from the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance and local chambers met with congressional delegations and agencies last week in Washington, D.C. to discuss policy issues impacting Southern Nevada.