Kendra Sunderland has become something of a celebrity in her hometown of Salem, Oregon. Last year, the 19-year-old says she would be stopped for autographs, which she loved, and guys often asked for pictures. But mostly, she says, “People would recognize me and stare. And I was kinda like, ‘Yeah, I’m that girl. It’s OK, you can talk to me like a normal person.’ But they all just really stare.”

UNLV student Kyle Kimsey recently won the regional qualifying round of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards for his startup business Adler Dynamics.

In a city built on luring tourists with cheap thrills and free cocktails, a big part of the Las Vegas Strip will soon slash away its most basic freebie: parking.

The University of Nevada Las Vegas has received a $2.5 million donation to help pay for construction of a new academic building for the university's hotel college.

A low-fiber diet decimated the diversity of bacterial species in mice colonized with human gut microbes in a recent study.

Many are hailing October's final presidential debate at UNLV as the most important in recent memory. Organizers will spend the next nine months preparing for the event. It's a big opportunity for Las Vegas on a big stage.

The Powerball jackpot stands at $1.5 billion and will likely go higher before Wednesday night's drawing, but if you're in Nevada, you'll have to go out of state to buy a ticket.

The uproar over Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s decision to sport Cuban heels shows two things. First, height matters, at least, for skyscrapers and presidential elections. Second, a heeled boot born of the French courts is apparently a misstep for a 21st-century American politician.