The public outcry over the selective thinning of beautiful — but non-native — pine trees from Oak Opening Preserve Metropark is being tempered by science that now shows the controversial Metroparks Toledo decision from years past is paying off.

Sixty students, most with ties to Nevada, are beginning their first week of classes at the new UNLV School of Medicine, which is beginning its second year of teaching.

UNLV announced an initiative called “The FANtastic 20” on Thursday, a program to improve fans’ experience this football season.

I stopped at the part about 80 percent of the final cost, which is what a Review-Journal report stated this past week has been raised to build the now projected $31 million Fertitta Football Complex at UNLV, which apparently at this point would mean the second floor being left undone.

The Las Vegas police department is using social media to drive home a message of safety after several fatal incidents involving pedestrians and impaired drivers.

With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to join the Supreme Court, Nevada’s senior senator must decide whether to support a nominee who issued a pivotal decision on the state’s most explosive political issue: Building a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

Nevada twice has come close to carrying out its first execution in 12 years. And twice it failed.

U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen on Monday introduced a bill that would expand the existing Work Opportunity Tax Credit to ensure that all student veterans using their GI Bill benefits can take advantage of paid internships or part-time work while in school.

UNLV broke ground today on the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park.