From books, films and music to manuscripts and old copies of newspapers, students typically have access to broad array of information at their local campus library.

Almost two years ago, Barbara Atkinson arrived in Las Vegas charged with getting UNLV’s first medical school off the ground.

The Nevada Commission on Ethics issued a decision Wednesday saying that despite “sufficient credible evidence” that North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee acted outside the scope of his office to influence city hiring, such actions don’t violate the state ethics law.

Henderson city officials say their police department can be objective in the investigation of the unexpected death of a Municipal Court judge whose body was found in her home on March 13.

Switching career paths might be a way to weather ups and downs in the job market, but those in the health sciences field seem to be able to stay put.

It has been a while since Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta tried to choke each other into submission. The brothers took private jujitsu lessons in the early 2000s, and at the end of each they were given the chance to try new moves in a dojo in Las Vegas. But you reach a certain age (Frank is now 54, Lorenzo is 47) and turn up in Forbes (which estimates each brother is worth $1.6 billion), and brawling starts to seem like a bad idea.

In the early 2000s, Las Vegas was on the upswing for population, employment and housing growth. But at the downturn of the recession, Southern Nevada found itself on the wrong side of the curve.

The Nevada Commission on Ethics issued a decision Wednesday saying that despite “sufficient credible evidence” that North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee acted outside the scope of his office to influence city hiring, such actions don’t violate the state ethics law.