Many people think the story of Vegas starts and ends with the Strip.

The Friends of Gold Butte Speaker Series in Mesquite will open a new year on Wednesday night.

Nevada's Department of Health and Human Services might be facing tough questions once the governor learns about the content of their internal emails.

UNLV paleontologists excavated a mammoth tusk and molar off U.S. 95 in an area not previously known to have fossils.

Understanding the world as it was 5,000 years ago just may provide some answers about the world today.

Officials in Henderson, Nevada, forge ahead with plans to possibly annex and develop parts of the Eldorado Valley despite geologists’ concerns about the presence of naturally occurring asbestos in the ground.

To annex or not to annex, that's the question being considered by the City of Henderson as it studies a big plot of land in the Eldorado Valley.

What to do about deadly dust, or naturally occurring asbestos, in the Boulder City area? That question drew a packed house Tuesday night in Boulder City, where citizens and scientists gathered to seek answers.

Science shows we can’t assume that uranium deposits, when disturbed by mining, can’t leak into groundwater. We should be wary of claims to the contrary

Wayne Brotherton is dying.

The largest environmental and public health disaster in American history isn't Three Mile Island or Love Canal. It's in Libby, Montana, where the effects of asbestos fibers are still being felt years after a mining operation was shut down.

Two UNLV professors say they were intimidated by state health officials who ordered them to keep quiet about evidence of a possible threat to public health.