In honor of National News Literacy Week, 13 Action News spoke to a former journalist turned UNLV instructor who is committed to helping aspiring journalists by teaching news literacy skills.

The erasure of Black leaders from the most misunderstood period in American history

Nearly two years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, an expert told 8 News Now there’s a chance the situation could change for the better this year.

President Joe Biden’s push to diversify the federal bench continued Thursday as the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced nominees for vacant seats — including two from Nevada.

California’s secretary of state has approved signature gathering on petitions for an initiative that would allow sports betting in Indian casinos, an effort led by Kenneth R. Ramirez of the San Manuel Band of Missions Indians and other Southern California tribal leaders.

The law school of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has announced the call for registrations for online training courses that begin on March 1 and revolve around the theme of the game.

The law school of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has announced the call for registrations for online training courses that begin on March 1 and revolve around the theme of the game.

Most of you have seen images of the industrial-sized solar arrays promised to solve the existential threat of climate change. For those who haven’t, picture a desert vista: Big, blue sky; purple mountains all around; a vast valley covered with dizzying rows of black solar panels elevated a few feet off the ground. Look closely and you’ll see that the earth beneath the solar panels has been scraped, graded and sprayed with herbicide. The land’s natural washes are all filled in, too.

Looking at the graph of cases in Nevada, one state health official noted in a recent conversation with state lawmakers that there are "very, very early" indications of stabilization as the growth rate of new cases appears to be slowing down.