In 2014 there was a clear gap between the Mountain West’s two divisions, with one side boasting four double-digit win teams and the other sending a championship representative that finished the season at 6-8. As the league descends on the Cosmopolitan this week for the annual media days it doesn’t look like that gap will be bridged in 2015.

Tesla, Faraday. There is a pattern coming together, and it looks like Nevada could be the pot into which the future of electric travel and electric power is melded.

A collection of biological codes sits in a library at UNLV. Much of the focus is learning how the codes can help cells fight off HIV. Researchers hope this work can be used to develop drugs much faster.

It’s not the near-campus stadium UNLV officials hope to eventually build for its football team, but recent changes to Sam Boyd Stadium will bring a different feel to Rebel home games this fall.

Our friends in Boulder City—and around Nevada and Arizona and California—are justly proud of Hoover Dam. Its construction made the growth of these areas possible, or at least more possible. Certainly, Las Vegas couldn’t have the population it has without the water from Lake Mead. And we wouldn’t be having the debates we’re having about water and our future, either.

A Catholic school that recruits non-Catholic students, promises not to proselytize, and follows a curriculum approved by the state may not be able to hide behind religious freedom rights, a lawyer said at a state assembly hearing.

One thing that drew me to UNLV is that this is truly a place of opportunity. Like so many of UNLV’s students and alumni, I am a first-generation college graduate. I went off to junior college to play baseball and expected to leave with a business certificate. It took a coach and then a series of professors to urge me on to a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and a Ph.D.

Many slot machines on casino floors bear images of faded but recognizable movies or TV shows such as "Sex and the City," "Ghostbusters" or the still-running "Wheel of Fortune," appealing to an older generation of players who reliably play the random games of chance.

The field at Sam Boyd Stadium always felt claustrophobic, the seats so close to ground level that it looked like the fans were in sideline meetings with the players. That won’t be the case anymore.