Nevada's regents have officially approved UNLV Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Chris Heavey as the university's new interim president.

The debasement of presidential pardon power continued this week, when President Donald Trump granted clemency to former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore. The move was in nobody’s best interest but hers, but she may not be free and clear just yet.

UNLV executive vice president and provost Chris Heavey will serve as the school’s interim president, The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents announced today.

There are some other serious questions as to how AI should be used for gambling. Is it too powerful? Could it create games that are too addictive? These are the kind of questions being posed by Dr Kasra Ghaharian the director of research for the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) International Gaming Institute.

The economic impact of the Vegas sports boom has been a fast-moving phenomenon, so specific and intriguing that the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER)and Sports Innovation Institute have created a tracking tool, the Southern Nevada Sports Economy Data Dashboard, to serve as an evolving research document.

Michele Fiore, the disgraced politician once convicted of scheming to capitalize on a community tragedy and now pardoned by the President of the United States, could face state charges for fraud or election finance crimes, according to a legal expert interviewed by the 8 News Now Investigators.

After serving at the helm of the university for nearly two months, Chris Heavey has been named UNLV’s interim president.

Four Nevada institutions – UNR, the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), Nevada State University (NSU), and the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) – are members of AAC&U. Late Thursday a spokesperson for NSU President DeRionne Pollard notified the Current that Pollard had signed on to the letter. UNLV’s Interim President Chris Heavey signed on Friday, according to a spokesperson.