UNLV’s budding medical school is closer to getting a home in the Las Vegas Valley’s medical district.

States such as Pennsylvania, which rely on revenue from gambling to close monster deficits, are sure to be disappointed with future results, according to a new study released in April.

Frank Van Breukelen is a UNLV researcher who studies Pupfish. He said the fish help scientists understand humans and evolution.

Station Casinos parent company, Red Rock Resorts, announced Tuesday it will buy the Palms Casino Resort.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his house in Springfield, Illinois, in 2012, Colombian-born Jhon Erick Ocampo struggled to explain to them that he was an American citizen.

One positions himself as the leader of a revolution, the other as an outsider who’ll rescue the nation from a political establishment that has dragged it into despair.

The US presidential election may still be five months away. But the deadline to turn green card holders into Americans, able to vote, is just around the corner.

This month both California and New York passed path-breaking legislation to increase the minimum wage, up to $15 by 2022 for California and by 2018 for the slightly more ambitious Empire State. Opponents, especially in low-wage industries, decried the negative impact the change will have on their purportedly slim profit margins. Meanwhile, advocates praised the move, citing widening inequality and soaring corporate profits as evidence of needed change.