When UNLV senior Kiarra Osotio received notification last week that she would be honored as an outstanding graduate, her entire family was moved to tears.

A new NBC News report shows a 27% decrease in overdose deaths in the United States but even with the decline, the latest numbers are still above prepandemic levels. Two states did not report a decrease, including Nevada.

UNLV will confer approximately 3,500 degrees during spring commencement ceremonies this weekend at the Thomas & Mack Center.

A recent report from the UNLV Lied Center for Real Estate found that the valley hasn’t been building enough homes for about 15 years.

Is Las Vegas the new Silicon Valley? A new venture fund is giving local start-up companies the money they need to succeed.

A recent survey of sex workers in Nevada found nearly all lack confidence in the criminal legal system and feel law enforcement doesn’t take sexual assault allegations seriously.

UNLV President Chris Heavey and University Police Department Chief Arnold Vasquez announced plans to boost campus security with more full-time officers and a new Campus Service Officer (CSO) program set to launch this summer. The university's contract with a supplemental private security company will conclude on June 30.

Researchers report record West Nile virus cases in the Southwest as invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes continue spreading across Clark County.

UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute (CPI) and International Gaming Institute (IGI) will host the latest installment of CPI’s Cannabis Speakers Series with a panel discussion titled “Cannabis & Gaming,” set for 1:30 p.m. PST on Monday (May 19) in the William S. Boyd School of Law’s moot courtroom and online.