UNLV nursing student Acacia Herndon doesn’t graduate until June, but she’s already getting a jump on her career and providing some much-needed assistance at Centennial Hills Hospital during the stressful COVID-19 pandemic.

MGM Resorts International on Tuesday launched its revamped loyalty program, one that for the first time brings nongambling customers into the rewards program fold.

The wave of teachers who ran for state office in 2018 was heralded at the time as a way to bring more attention to school funding and low teacher pay—but new research shows that it may have also contributed to the record number of women elected to the state legislature that year.

The nearly 400 UNLV freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts who were enrolled the course — an introductory class to ease their academic and social transition to college life — received a free online textbook thanks to a new program within the college.

A start-up company by UNLV alumni is making its big debut at the world’s largest HVACR convention this week.

UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute has a new executive director who’ll start on the job June 1.

It’s risky business, messing with the memory of Abraham Lincoln. For some, our 16th president is a secular saint, revered for ending slavery and guiding the nation through the Civil War and becoming not just a paragon of virtue to generations of American schoolchildren but co-honoree of a national holiday that arrives in just a few weeks.

Outside Texas Station in North Las Vegas, there are fewer cars and shorter lines to grab a COVID test. Compare this to earlier this year, when long, winding lines snaked outside the UNLV campus with hours-long waits, or people rushing local pharmacies to try to get an at-home test.

As the nation faces ongoing threats of white supremacist violence and voter suppression legislation, more than 200 scholars of U.S. history have signed an open letter urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era in upper elementary, middle, and high school U.S. history and civics courses.