As he walked outside the Thomas & Mack Center after Saturday morning’s UNLV spring commencement ceremony, new graduate Miguel Cerda said he felt pride and a sense of relief.

UNLV’s newest graduates crossed the stage this spring with degrees in hand and a wide range of stories behind them. UNLV awarded more than 3,700 degrees during its spring 2026 commencement at the Thomas & Mack Center on Saturday.

Opposition websites, attack signs and mirroring allegations that their fellow Republican opponent is not as conservative as they claim are at the center of an increasingly antagonistic primary race for an open Clark County Commission seat.

The Class of 2026 includes graduates from 34 states and U.S. territories and 62 countries. Of the graduates, 87% are Nevada residents, with 67% coming from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Nearly half of all students are the first in their family to earn a degree.

Valley students learned how to take care of their bodies and minds while having some fun Friday. The Raiders and the UNLV School of Public Health hosted a flag football camp at the team’s headquarters in Henderson. It’s part of the RUSH program, or Raiders-UNLV Sports and Public Health. Two hundred students from three valley middle schools took part, learning about nutrition, mental health and physical health while also doing flag football drills.

If you’re newly into birdwatching, you might be wondering how to attract more flying friends to your backyard. Aside from the obvious (supplying food), it helps to add a bird bath.

The group’s 55 volunteers include medical professionals, UNLV students and retirees.

This summer, don’t be alarmed if mosquitoes decide to ruin your summer cookout. Depending on where you live, you might see a significant spike in mosquito activity in the months ahead.

From lotteries to casinos, horse tracks to mobile sports betting, tribal bingo halls to prediction markets, most of America is awash in gambling as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary. But gambling was popular in America before there even WAS an America. Native Americans played games with sticks and dice, including a hide-the-stone-in-a-moccasin game that could be the precursor of the modern shell game. British settlers brought their country's love of gambling to the new world, betting on horse races, playing cards and dice games in taverns, and using lotteries to help finance public works projects, including the very establishment of some of the American colonies long before they declared independence in 1776.