As the weather warms up and humidity increases, mosquitoes are hatching in backyards across the country, eager to victimize innocent barbecue-goers and home gardeners everywhere.

Melania Trump appeared to be all business to join President Trump for Monday’s signing of the Take It Down Act.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enduring, negative effect on K-12 student learning, judging by the most recent NAEP results released in January. This was the second set of NAEP results gathered and released in the wake of the pandemic; any latent hopes for a quick recovery were dashed as students continued to slide in reading and showed a tiny rebound in math.

UNLV Athletics celebrates a historic academic milestone as a record-breaking 102 student-athletes earn their degrees in 2025, highlighting the program’s success both on the field and in the classroom.

There’s a number of respected institutions that have weighed in on this, including UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate, Brookings Mountain West and Nevada Housing Coalition, Frias said. All point to the same conclusion that there’s not enough housing supply in Nevada to meet the growing demand of the growing population.

Some suspects in violent assaults and sex crimes are escaping American justice because they're being deported before they can stand trial, according to a number of prosecutors and legal experts across the country.

UNLV honored 21-year-old, Janeah Lane, a criminal justice major, who died tragically last March after accidentally killing herself with a handgun, over the weekend. Friends and family gathered at what would have been Lane’s college graduation, on Saturday. Her Mother, Simoni Lane took the stage in an emotional tribute and shared with 8 News Now just how special the moment was.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) celebrated a significant milestone on Saturday as it awarded nearly 3,500 degrees during its spring 2025 commencement ceremony at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Nevada is the only state in the country where some form of sex work or prostitution is legal. In counties with fewer than 700,000 people, brothels have been legal since the early 1970s. Some say it's a regulated way to maintain safety for the workers and customers in a world where prostitution will never really disappear, while others say no to prostitution in any form. But today, we're going to look at two aspects of sex work.