Could life exist on Mars? That's what a professor at UNLV is looking to find out using samples from the red planet.

UNLV students are hard at work preserving the images and records of Las Vegas photographer Clinton Wright, whose decades of work shed light into African American life and experience in the 1960s and beyond.

As the federal government reduces criminal prosecution of white-collar crime, states are now courting businesses by competing with one another to further shield corporate executives from legal actions that aim to hold them accountable for wrongdoing.

As we round out Black History Month, we shine a light on a casino that transformed Las Vegas, the Moulin Rouge. This year marks 70 years since it opened its doors in 1955 over on the Historic Westside. It became the first integrated casino in the country.

Prominent Black leaders like Woodrow Wilson (not the U.S. president) had to fight tooth and nail to have access to the legislative process. Wilson was Nevada’s first Black legislator who moved to Las Vegas in 1966, at the height of segregation, according to an oral history from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

According to the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety and the Transportation Research Center at UNLV, already in 2025, just two months into the year, there have been 15 pedestrian fatalities in Clark County.

Nevada education leaders are reviewing demands of a recent U.S. Department of Education memo for American schools ordering institutions to eradicate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding.

Twenty-five years ago, Clark County had a population of 1.4 million but no medical school. The lone medical school was in Washoe County, which had four times fewer people. But today, four schools in Southern Nevada offer medical doctorates.

Alpine Securities is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider taking its years-long case against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, potentially setting up a showdown that could cripple the brokerage regulator—and other self-regulatory organizations like it.