THE first essay assignment I give to my freshman composition students is to answer the question, “Why are you pursuing a university education?”

Nevada lawmakers have passed a hard-fought bill to regulate companies like Uber that allow people to hail a ride through a smartphone app.

Last week, state lawmakers passed what will be a $7.2 billion general fund budget, complete with new programs for education and $8 million for a new medical school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

With all the recent news of growth and development in Las Vegas, talk has emerged again about possible expansion of the Las Vegas Monorail.

With Memorial Day over, summer has unofficially started, which in Las Vegas is defined as sitting in a cabana at a casino or lounging by the pool in the backyard or finding refuge in the coldest spot in the house.

An amendment to a bill lost in a confusing Assembly floor vote early Saturday that would have given regulatory authority over ride-hailing companies to the Nevada Transportation Authority sailed through in a second vote Tuesday.

Kristina Hernandez waited nearly a year before she could use the girl’s restroom at Harney Middle School.

You can’t stroll around John Millei’s If 6 Turned Out to Be 9: Selected Work, at UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum. Nope—you have to stand there. In front of each painting. Look some more at those forms and shapes. Step back. Squint a bit. Move on to the next painting; come back to the last one.

Cresent Hardy hasn’t prepared a speech, so the characteristically blunt congressman just shoots from the hip.

Looking back at his five months in office and the whirlwind of lessons he's learned from a big new job that once seemed unattainable, he offers this summary: