UNLV and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have been awarded an $11.1 million federal grant to advance the understanding of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Nevada lawmakers recently passed SB302, a landmark education bill. Today, as part of our series “Nevada’s Gamble on School Choice” Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray explores the unforeseen consequences the new law could have on the state.

The Gaming Nevada Control Board possibly making changes recommending legal language allowing for slot machines that would require skill for you to win. This would make slot machines more like video games instead of random luck.

It might seem surprising that the road in North Las Vegas named for Tom Williams, who created that city, is such a short and unheralded thoroughfare. It may be more surprising that an elementary school is also named for the man who championed having as little government as possible in the new city and keeping out black people.

Ambition, persistence, a drive for success — how do you know when you've lept beyond a good work ethic and landed in workaholism?

Pornography.
The word might conjure images of coin-operated movies in closet-sized rooms. And the one movie theater Travis Bickle should NOT have taken his date to in “Taxi Driver.” Or that stack of forbidden magazines under your parents’ bed.

The coaches have gotten the job done.
So have the quarterbacks.

UNLV’s New Era has arrived and it kicks off at 4:34 p.m. Las Vegas time Saturday at Northern Illinois on CBS Sports Network. First-year coach Tony Sanchez begins his tenure as a 23-point underdog, bigger odds even than last year’s season opener at Arizona, which UNLV lost by 45 as 21-point underdogs.

You never know when you’re going to get a Slip ’N Slide question, even when you’re the president of a university. UNLV’s Len Jessup took it in stride, answering diverse queries cultivated from UNLV brass and alumni, a TV star and a city leader, Weekly staffers and our creative friends on social media.