Over 60 years, 2,000 planes have crashed or gone missing in Nevada's Sierra Nevada region

A recent study by the UNLV Center for Gaming Research found that Nevada casinos are not content with reducing the payouts on natural blackjacks and adding green zeroes to the roulette wheels. In their endless pursuit of additional house edge, it seems operators are programming slot machines to be a little tighter than they used to be.

UNLV, UNR and Nevada State University would see an increase of 12% split between three years — a 3% spike in 2026-2027, 4% in 2027-2028 and 5% in 2028-2029. Undergraduate tuition at UNLV is $4,998 a semester for Nevada residents; $14,314 for out-of-state students.

The 2nd annual Missing in Nevada Day is set to run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 31 at UNLV's University Gateway Building.

Grimy airplane windshield? Those fizzy drinks are good for more than refreshment.

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ice, dubbed Ih, with the h referring to its crystal lattice’s hexagonal nature. But there is so much more to ice than that.

A selling point of poetry is that it expands the ways we can access some of life’s most vital truths. For poet and longtime UNLV professor Claudia Keelan, poetry is an art of continual present-tense attention to the world, in its largest and smallest movements — you never know what detail will yield a new insight. April being National Poetry Month is our pretext for interviewing Keelan, but the calendar is beside the point. As she notes, “any second can produce a poem.”

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or variation of mood with change in season, especially during months with reduced daylight, is a well-recognized condition that adversely affects the mental health and well-being of many people. It was first described in 1984 and is now classified as a distinct disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), and related to major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.

The Rebel Recycling Center on UNLV Campus is celebrating its 30th anniversary and marking the milestone with a $30,000 fundraising campaign to expand the "All in the Hall" program.