You may know that May 15 was the birthday of Las Vegas. We celebrate the day of the auction that led to the creation of the railroad’s townsite. You may not know this May 15 was the centennial of the birth of Eddy Arnold. Yes, the country singer. And we’re not just talking about him today because the author of Nevada Yesterdays is a country music fan. There’s more to the story.

As Nevada goes, so may go the nation, says UNLV associate history professor Michael Green.

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.

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.

Gov. Brian Sandoval will hand his successor an office that is more powerful than when he first arrived in 2011, according to experts.

Las Vegas is in the middle of a rebranding.

A straight, 5-mile stretch is all that separates Heritage Bible Church from the brothels at the end of Homestead Road in Pahrump. The speed limit between sin and salvation is 45 mph.

A lot has changed for the station that gave Nevada its first glimpse of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Here’s Senator Richard Bryan with Nevada Yesterdays.