The cloud plume resembled the atomic bomb detonations he witnessed on Frenchman’s Flat, said longtime Henderson resident Everett Bartlett — a distinct mushroom shape that bloomed towards the sky on the afternoon of April 21, 1958. Although the cloud was much smaller than an atomic explosion, it was also much closer, just a few miles from the Townsite School in Henderson.

Recent data from UNLV researchers shows the senior food insecurity rate in Clark County is 18%.

As the warmer temperature months approach, a community-led effort to improve pedestrian safety provided a final round of reflective jacket distributions to those most in need.

Lawmakers have convened in Carson City this week to kick off the 83rd regular session of the Nevada Legislature. They’re working with a Democratic majority and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who vetoed a record 75 bills in the 2023 session.

UNLV Athletics celebrated a milestone achievement as 80 student-athletes were named to the Fall 2024 Academic All-Mountain West Team, the conference announced Thursday.

As federal regulators finalize rules requiring ticket and hotel sellers reveal hidden "junk fees" to prohibit "bait-and-switch pricing" and other practices that hide total prices in live-event and short-term lodging industries, researchers at UNLV are looking into the impact of pricing transparency.

Registered Republican voters have — by the narrowest of margins — overtaken Democrats in the pivotal battleground state of Nevada for the first time in nearly 20 years.

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, uprisings and protests happened in urban areas across the country as Black Americans fought to end discrimination and racial segregation. During this time, residents in the Historic Westside of Las Vegas also joined that fight.

Over the last eight years, Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have remade the federal judiciary. The U.S. Senate approved 234 of Trump’s judicial picks in his first term, and 235 Biden nominees. Each is responsible for the appointments of just over a quarter of the entire federal judiciary.