“No little girl grows up wanting to be a prostitute,” declares the homepage of the No Little Girl campaign, a recently launched attempt to criminalize sex work in two of the seven Nevada counties where it’s currently legal.

Forget “po-ta-to, po-tat-o” – the age-old question of how to pronounce the starchy vegetable. In the hard-knuckle world of politics, there is a more important tell in how a politician pronounces the name of one state — Nevada.

When it comes to the founding of Nevada’s biggest cities, it truly is the merry month of May. Las Vegas celebrates its birthday on May 15—the day in 1905 that the railroad auctioned off the townsite that became downtown. And on May 9, 1868, Reno was born in similar fashion.

For college students across the country, commencement formally marks the transition from student to graduate.

In Pahrump, Nevada – a desert enclave famous for its “live and let live” spirit – you can openly carry a gun, race sports cars, buy marijuana, own lions, gamble and purchase sex. But there’s a movement under way to rein in the frontier town’s freedom-loving ways.

A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers kicked off an anti-gerrymandering campaign this month. They want to take redistricting decisions out of the hands of state legislators and put it into the hands of twelve voters.

Inside the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV, the Culinary Union is getting ready. On Tuesday, in two shifts, tens of thousands of culinary workers from 34 resorts will come here to vote on whether or not to let their leaders call a strike.

First experts said eggs are bad for you, then they say it's OK to eat them. Is red wine good for your heart or will it give you breast cancer?

On May 20, the Magic Wand vibrator, formerly known as the Hitachi Magic Wand, turns 50 years old, marking a milestone in the history of the sexual revolution. The Magic Wand’s popularity has only increased since its 1968 inception, and unlike an orgasm, its rising action doesn’t end.

What do Red Rock Canyon, a passel of mid-20th century motels around town and a Las Vegas theater and high school have in common?

As the Lyon County brothel battle intensifies, new data suggests Nevada's commercial sex market is bigger than any other U.S. state when you adjust for population.

Immigration policy has long been a pivotal subject in Nevada, where one in every five residents hails from outside the U.S. This week, Sen. Dean Heller revealed flickers of concern about how decisive a role the issue could play in the Senate race.