In The News: Special Collections and Archives
KSNV-TV in Las Vegas reported Friday that Tom Hawley, the station’s longtime traffic and news reporter, has died after taking a leave due to pancreatic cancer. He was 60.

This week on Politics Now with host John Langeler, we remember 20 years since 9/11.

Today marks the passage of 20 years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the day that changed our nation — and our state.

Following the September 11 attacks, first responders from across the globe left t-shirts, patches, letters and other items at a shrine near the Statue of Liberty at New York-New York on the Las Vegas Strip. Twenty years later, the items that were left at the shrine are stored safely at UNLV.

Twenty years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of T-shirts, hats, patches, pictures, and letters left at Las Vegas’ version of New York City are stored safely at UNLV.
Courthouse square was the block between 2nd-3rd, Carson-Bridger. These photos were taken facing the southwest corner of the building nearest to 2nd & Bridger.
After a tumultuous year, Sin City makes a comeback with a slew of new projects.
At the time of this photo the new terminal had opened (off frame to the upper left) and the entrance to the airport re-routed to Paradise Rd. The original terminal seen here would soon be demolished.
The satellite of the L.A. nightspot finds inspiration in clubs of yesteryear like the Cocoanut Grove.
An old African proverb states that “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.”

Just days before her death last month, Elizabeth von Till Warren received, perhaps, the gift of a lifetime at her 87th birthday celebration.

The evolution of Las Vegas has been nothing short of spectacular.