Liu Yuejin, vice commissioner of the National Narcotics Control Commission, speaks during a press conference in Beijing on Monday, April 1, 2019. China announced Monday that all fentanyl-related drugs, as a group, would become controlled substances, effective May 1, a step U.S. officials have long advocated as a way to stem the flow of lethal opioids from China.

The Young Dreamers Foundation presented two Ernest A. Becker Sr. Middle School students—eighth-grader Chanel Koh and sixth-grader Caleb Loquillano—with home workstations for winning an essay contest that focused on their natural, inherent skills and how they plan to use those talents to achieve their future goals.

With Tax Day approaching on Monday, April 15, taxes are at the top of the news right now.

She’s one of the most famous photographers of all time, and on April 3, Annie Leibovitz spoke to a packed theater inside Artemus Ham Hall at UNLV. The talk was the final installment of the current season of the Barrick Lecture Series, which kicked off with Oscar-winning film director Guillermo del Toro last October.

The ancient Central American city of Caracol was abandoned by the Maya almost a thousand years ago, but Arlen and Diane Chase can’t seem to stay away from the place.

Normally, Jon Taffer’s “Bar Rescue” series does just that: He goes in and helps salvage bars that need help in order to thrive, or even survive. But for Sunday night’s episode, he went to UNLV and featured students.

An increasing number of solutions to California and Arizona’s long-term water problems now involve Mexico.

Mark Padoongpatt has written on Thai-American foodways, Asian-American Suburbia, and is currently researching the history of Asian restaurant health inspections in the United States. Coral and Mark discuss the history of Asian migration to the suburbs, the impact of Asian-dominated strip malls, and who these public spaces really serve.

Experts at UNLV carefully track pollen counts every day of the year and some of their findings might surprise you.