UNLV will go smoke-free on Aug. 12, in doing so joining about 2,000 universities across the country.

UNLV is becoming a tobacco-free institution starting Aug. 15, the university announced in a press release on Friday.

Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto is among a small group of Senate Democrats opposing the Biden administration’s decision to end a Trump-era policy that essentially shut down America’s asylum system.

A new “Shark Tank” style entrepreneurial competition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, tasked nine teams of students with solving one of Nevada’s most pressing problems: economic diversity.

Icons will rule the night as the UNLV College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame induction dinner returns to its full-capacity gala Tuesday night at Student Union Ballroom.

It's an exciting time at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Match Day at the school was a major success with the entire class all matching. For more information, visit unlv.edu/medicine or unlvhealth.org. This segment is sponsored by The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.

A Las Vegas organization looks to expand its resources to help women escape sex trafficking, offering emergency housing for those who have been arrested and just released from jail.

Damage around the man’s oval skull opening indicates that someone scraped out that piece of bone, probably to reduce brain swelling caused by a violent attack or a serious fall, said bioarchaeologist Diana Simpson of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Either scenario could explain fractures and other injuries above the man’s left eye and to his left arm, leg and collarbone.

For the second week in a row, Clark County experienced a slight uptick in new daily COVID-19 cases, marking the first increases since January, according to weekly data released Wednesday.