The building will have full-time security this fall following a campus shooting.

UNLV President Keith Whitfield honored the officers who responded to the Dec. 6 deadly campus shooting. Detective Nate Drum and Officer Damian Garcia were recognized for their heroic actions when a gunman fatally shot three professors and injured a fourth on campus.

UNLV held a town hall on Monday to update university staff members, students, and the public on recovery efforts since the shooting last December. UNLV President Dr. Keith Whitfield started the town hall by recognizing the officers who helped stop the shooter on Dec. 6, 2023. Those two officers were Detective Nathaniel Drum and Officer Damian Garcia of the University Police Department.

UNLV will reopen the classroom complex where an active shooter last December killed three professors and wounded another, officials said today. Beam Hall, which has been closed for repairs since the tragedy, will hold about 160 classes in the fall, Provost Chris Heavey said during a meeting updating university leaders on the campus recovery following the Dec. 6., 2023 shooting.

Bill Hornbuckle remembers being a community college student in Connecticut when he saw a commercial advertising UNLV’s hospitality college during a broadcast of a UNLV basketball game. Only two months later, he moved to Las Vegas with friends and $22 in his pocket, soon walking onto UNLV’s campus as a business major and working on the Strip at night.

A $150 million federal grant announced Monday will help kickstart construction of a long-planned bus rapid transit line along Maryland Parkway into downtown Las Vegas.

Faster bus service along a redesigned Maryland Parkway corridor got a big boost Monday with the announcement of a federal grant worth almost $150 million.

A planned $5 billion medical campus in North Las Vegas is coming back under the direction of city government two years after the project was announced.