Nevada’s first potential tax on recreational marijuana will be debated in the 2017 Legislature.

At the private practice where Susan VanBeuge works as a nurse practitioner, she and the practice’s physician complement each other. The physician, who often takes on a more clinical demeanor, introduces the nurse as the patient’s advocate and champion.

In dry, disturbed soil throughout the West, a weedy invader from Eurasia has gained a tenacious foothold. Kochia scoparia, also called poor man’s alfalfa, has slender, gray-green leaves that turn an ornamental orange in autumn. Despite control efforts, this weed springs back relentlessly thanks to its bountiful seed bank.

UNLV’s search for a new athletic director began in October, when the university announced Tina Kunzer-Murphy will be leaving her post this summer and transitioning to a fundraising role. The next hire will be hugely important for UNLV, considering the state of the school’s sports programs and the impending changes in the Las Vegas market (hello, Vegas Golden Knights and Las Vegas Raiders!), so the pressure is on the Rebels to get this one right.

Not so long ago, Benoy Jacob said, city and county leaders were seen as the worker bees of government, overseeing nuts-and-bolts tasks such as filling potholes and replacing burned-out bulbs in streetlights, while state and federal elected officials tackled big problems.

Armed with shovels, the group turned enough dirt to plant 630 trees and grasses along the Las Vegas Wash, an area that was once submerged and served as a docking area for boats. “This area was 50 feet below Lake Mead,” said Dr. Scott Abella, assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at UNLV.

Children throughout the Las Vegas Valley received dental work today at no cost to their parents. The Southern Nevada Dental Society, UNLV School of Dental Medicine, Roseman University, and corporate sponsor teamed up to treat the kid’s dental needs, for free, at the annual Give Kids A Smile Day.

When the UNLV School of Medicine received preliminary accreditation last fall, a flood of students sought admission, forcing staff to stop accepting applications when the number hit 905. “It was just too many,” UNLV President Len Jessup said. After all, the fledgling medical school could only accept 60 students in its inaugural class.

UNLV was one of nearly 600 colleges and universities represented in a letter sent Friday to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security expressing concern over President Donald Trump's immigration executive order signed a week ago, according to the American Council on Education.