A pair of top executive branch officials left Nevada earlier this week, potentially leaving no formal acting governor as required by state law.

Claytee White, historian and director of UNLV’s Oral History Research Center, mentioned the Historic Westside’s resiliency and long-lasting legacy.

$1.3 million in federal funding to support the redevelopment of Jackson Avenue in the Historic Westside

For more than 200 years, American industries, even universities, used slaves. Over that time, some 300,000 slaves who could be bought, sold, deeded and gifted, were forced into labor. And it wasn’t that long ago, ending in the late 1800s.

Part of UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives, "Doubling Down" is a collection of about 800 audiovisual items found in several archival collections. These items include oral histories from casino workers and executives, aerial footage of Las Vegas, entertainment acts from the Stardust, and publicity records from casino owner Bob Stupak. They date from 1960 to 2005.

Let’s get something straight: Nevada may be the Mississippi of the West, but so are Arizona, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Colorado, and any state in any part of the country. Illinois is the Mississippi of the Midwest and so are all of the other Midwestern states. New York is the Mississippi of the Northeast and so are the other 12 northeastern states.

Campaign leaders and their archives recall the year-long fight that resulted in secure abortion rights, even post-Roe

Frank Sinatra was certainly a driving force in the progress toward equality in Las Vegas. But, contrary to a popular myth, the singer didn’t end the shameful legacy of segregation on the Strip. It took political action to do that.

With all the ambivalence surrounding the Oakland Athletics, I decided to research the history of baseball.

Ann Raskin sits under bright lights in the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center in Summerlin and wipes away tears while Alexander “Alex” Kuechel recites a poem. In it, he laments about lives lost, the burning of synagogues and destruction of torahs in the streets.

Her job is to collect and document the history of Las Vegas at the UNLV Library, Special Collections and Archives division. Su Kim Chung on the history of Las Vegas and how she is working to preserve it.

March is Women’s History Month — and Las Vegas has no shortage of trailblazing women who have helped make our city what it is today. Essentially: If Las Vegas were to have its own Mt. Rushmore of notable ladies, who’d be on it?