The UNLV School of Public Health announced Wednesday it received a $1.7 million state grant to continue providing COVID-19 contact tracing.

In the wake of last week’s frightening events in Washington, D.C., and as the nation faces ongoing threats of white supremacist violence, the Zinn Education Project is releasing an open letter signed by more than 170 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era in upper elementary, middle, and high school U.S. history and civics courses.

There have been some seriously iconic sex scenes in TV and film over the years.

Robert Futrell has spent decades studying right-wing militia movements. A professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he watched as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, killing a Capitol Police officer. Four others also died in the attack, which was part of an ongoing effort by President Donald Trump to subvert the presidential election. Similar demonstrations, some violent, also erupted at several state capitals, including Salem, Oregon.

Nevada’s gaming floors, bars, and restaurants must keep in place the 25 percent occupancy limit for another 30 days due to coronavirus risk, Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) announced on Monday. But the move led experts to question its effectiveness and the impact on the economy.

This time of year, Las Vegas is usually bustling with hundreds of thousands of people flying in for CES.

With the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held virtually this week, hotel-casino room rates in Las Vegas have dropped by hundreds of dollars compared to last year.

Henderson-based conservative social media app Parler is fighting to get back online after Amazon Web Services removed it from its platform Sunday night.

“Great,” I thought to myself the other day when I first learned of a new Netflix movie about an open relationship. “Here’s finally a story about people like me.” But it turns out the only thing worse than very rarely seeing the kind of life you live depicted in a movie is to see it grossly misunderstood and judged. Newness turned out to be nothing more than a morality play warning people of how vapid and doomed to failure open relationships are, and presenting the relative boredom (as they depicted it) of monogamy to be worth the price of love.