Nevada lawmakers are weighing a bill for the fifth time in a number of years that would convert minor traffic violations from criminal offenses into civil infractions and remove the threat of incarceration.

The Nevada System of Higher Education is drafting plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for students, with some limited exceptions, who are returning to campus in the fall semester.

Faun Lee Botor is one of 50 students in the first class of the university’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine who will be celebrating their graduations Friday at the university’s Thomas &Mack Center. And her plans to stick around are no doubt music to the ears of the medical school’s founders.

Nevada’s higher education system reversed course Thursday and announced it is drafting plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for students coming to campuses for fall semester, with “some limited exceptions.”

The University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) will graduate its very first class of 50 medical students today, marking a milestone in a fight to attract more doctors to the Silver State.

Clark County schools educate more than 300,000 students whose backgrounds are from almost every ethnicity, race and culture. But the school district still has no anti-racism policy.

On the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, director Chloé Zhao won two statuettes for Nomadland, her epic tale of a group of baby-boomers adrift in the great American West, and was nominated in no less than six categories. Rewarded in the United States, Chloé Zhao on the other hand became an outcast in her country of origin.

The just-named Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV produced 50 newly minted physicians, all of whom attended tuition-free thanks to donors.

Eighteen of 50 new doctors marking their graduations Friday as the inaugural class of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine plan to stay in Nevada for their residencies, officials said.