News 3's Krystal Allan is at the Thomas & Mack Center as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas gets set to graduate its Class of 2015.

Excitement filled the air at the Thomas & Mack Center as graduates reflected on years of hard work and looked toward the future.

Hard work, dedication and long nights are how many UNLV graduates described their collegiate journey.

More than 2,700 UNLV students received diplomas during two commencement ceremonies Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Las Vegas was the latest stop for a pair of Mexican parents touring across dozens of cities in the Western U.S. to bring attention to the disappearance of 43 college students who went missing six months ago in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

Parents and survivors of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican college students are visiting Las Vegas in an effort to carry their message across the United States.

Some students would like to be able to carry their concealed weapons on campus and some don’t want guns anywhere near their school. In what you might call a compromise, the Nevada State Legislature is considering a bill that would allow guns to be kept in cars on school campuses.

A UNLV professor began the bureaucratic process of dealing with a student who had plagiarized and got mad.
He was asking for a student be held accountable while, in his opinion, the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education was getting away with the same academic sin.