University, health and city officials gathered for a town hall event Tuesday night looking forward to the development of the UNLV School of Medicine and the medical district surrounding it.

UNLV is among the universities around the country participating in a push by the Obama administration to demographically shore up the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace by signing up more young adults.

I stared at the crimson-colored organ sealed in industrial-strength Tupperware and labeled with the international symbol for biohazard.

The fine arts space soon to be known as the Barrick Museum of Art began life in 1967, even before it was part of the UNLV campus proper. In 1975, it became the UNLV Museum of Natural History and moved into the school’s old gym space (hence the presence of cartoon-wolf mascot Beauregard on the gallery floor today). Its first contemporary art exhibit took place in 1986, three years before the Marjorie Barrick part of the name got added.

For the most part, the days of “stranger danger” — the fear that an unknown assailant will sexually assault a victim — are behind us.

The parents of an infant who police say was hurt by a daycare worker are speaking out. They did what many parents do; they dropped their son off at daycare to go to work. Now, a woman is arrested for abusing him, and the child has permanent brain damage.

New research published in the journal Sex Roles examined how women who choose to keep their own surname after marriage are perceived in the United States.

In news that will probably surprise absolutely no one, new research has shown that women who don’t change their names when they get married are perceived by other people to be much less committed to their marriages than those who do are.