This summer, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will be hosting students from Fort Lewis College — a Native American-serving, non-tribal institution in Colorado. The goal is to make graduate school accessible to Indigenous students. Native American students face multiple obstacles when it comes to obtaining higher education, including a lack of financial resources and intergenerational trauma.

A building bears her name—the library at Nevada State University. That’s appropriate. She helped get the school started, but that’s not all. 

Referred to now as the School of Cinematic Arts, the name change is meant to better describe the program’s mission.

According to UNLV's Center for Gaming Research, gaming win on the Las Vegas Strip has fallen from 59% of total casino revenue in 1984 to just 35% in fiscal 2024, the most dramatic shift of any Nevada market. Statewide, gaming dropped from 62% to 43% over the same period, with room revenue nearly doubling its share. Today, non-gaming revenue makes up roughly two-thirds of Strip casino-resort revenue.

Nevada is one of the fastest-growing states when it comes to entrepreneurship and small businesses since the pandemic. The topic was the focus of a recent UNLV Brews & Economic Views event at Bad Beat Brewing in downtown Las Vegas.

When you see your doctor, they may advise movement to improve your cholesterol numbers. But what kind of exercise, exactly, should you be doing? For years, experts have pointed to cardio as the best exercise for controlling cholesterol. The science has since changed.

Spirit Airlines is Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s No. 2 carrier, and that’s why thousands of travelers like Jeanne and Alan Koval are waiting to learn whether the budget airline founded decades ago in Macomb County will be rescued by a proposed federal bailout or collapse into liquidation.

‘Divorce,’ lawsuits and Supreme Court decisions: Why consolidating Northern Nevada firefighting services could be an uphill battle.

The great room at Walking Box Ranch has been restored to its 1930s heyday, when Hollywood stars Rex Bell and Clara Bow lived there. Just in time for the third anniversary of Avi Kwa Ame’s national monument designation, UNLV’s Public Lands Institute returned the original furnishings — including the couple’s dining table, still marked by hardened gum Bow once tucked beneath her seat.