UNLV baseball has an almost entirely new pitching staff, but you’ll probably recognize the pitching coach when the Rebels take the field tonight for the season opener against Omaha.

More than 340,000 people passed on Nevada’s hotel rooms last year and opted instead to book a place to stay using the home-sharing service Airbnb. The growth in the short term rental market is good for homeowners who made money from their residences but it could be a drain on the state’s all-important hospitality industry and eventually drive down room rates, according to an industry expert.

UNLV Executive Director of Housing, Residential Life and Card Services Richard Clark wants to give every individual a voice, especially those who are underrepresented.

More than 340,000 people passed on Nevada's hotel rooms last year and opted instead to book a place to stay using the home-sharing service Airbnb. The $47 million in revenue that hosts took in is a loss for the state's hospitality industry that one expert says will only increase if not addressed.

Funding for the statewide school turnaround program should continue but warrants further analysis, the only one of seven education initiatives recommended for monitoring in a study presented to the Nevada Assembly education committee.

THE DESTRUCTION OF ALEPPO has been a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of instability in the Middle East. Vulnerable civilians who lived in what was once one of the most diverse and prosperous cities in the region find themselves on the frontline of an intractable civil war with no place to go. With anti-immigrant populism on the rise, the current refugee crisis has revealed a callous unwillingness on the part of the United States and Europe to help mitigate the crisis, even before President Trump’s executive order to ban Syrian refugees indefinitely.

Some people say the great Las Vegas novel has yet to be written. But Writers Imagine Las Vegas: Our City in Fiction, the new exhibit that recently debuted at UNLV’s Lied Library with a reading by local author Laura McBride, may just prove them wrong.

Cars are less likely to stop when people of color step into intersections, a study says. That may partly explain why there are higher levels of pedestrian deaths among racial minority communities.

County Commission candidate Tisha Black’s campaign rollout is turning heads and winning praise almost two years before the general election for the board’s next members. Black, a Republican attorney and political newcomer, launched her campaign last month and will continue it in March with a shock-and-awe-style fundraiser that touts a “Kick-Off Committee” of more than 150 people and businesses.