Halloween's over, but for some of the characters who've been lurking among the witches and zombies, it's finally their time to shine.

Mike Newcomb popped out of his executive office at The Thomas & Mack Center and had a spring in his step. His 32-year-old venue on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus is undergoing a $72.5 million makeover, and the arena director was eager to show the improvements.

Before enrolling at UNLV, Daniel Waqar contemplated a list of faraway schools with far bigger price tags.

At UNLV’s Center for Gaming Innovation, students double as inventors — and their creations can end up on local casino floors.

Student inventors from UNLV revealed five table games they created during an event at Red Rock in Las Vegas on Sunday.

Some of the top casino players tested out new table games created by students at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Being stressed may seem like a problem as fleeting as the bad day that may have caused it, but it is believed to add up.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of Veterans Services will hold an open house 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday for veterans to hear about education benefits, career counseling and vocational rehabilitation.

Break Ups and Tear Downs at the Barrick Museum presents Las Vegas artists Wendy Kveck and JK Russ, along with former Las Vegan Erin Stellmon, who recently left for the East Coast. Deconstruction is key to the exhibition: All three artists process visual representations by cutting them up. But the “break up” and “tear down” title omits that the artists also reassemble the fragments, generating fresh, new ways of looking at familiar content.