The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to relocate a state-of-the-art radiation monitoring laboratory from Las Vegas to Alabama, a move that has drawn protests from nuclear safety activists and officials from Nevada and California.

If you mentioned nuclear and Las Vegas in the same sentence 60 years ago, the conversation probably centered on the Nevada Test Site.

While most Clark County School District teachers and students began summer vacation last week, a select group of 60 elementary teachers are extending their classroom work in a five-day program this week at UNLV.