UNLV today announced a $9 million gift from the California-based San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to support the Harrah College of Hospitality and Boyd School of Law.

With all eyes on Nevada ahead of tomorrow's presidential caucuses, congressional candidates in the state are also revving up their campaigns.

Elizabeth Warren’s debate-stage evisceration of Michael Bloomberg has brought renewed buzz to her flagging presidential campaign — but it may have come too late to help her in the Nevada caucuses.

In the blazing sun of the Las Vegas desert, throngs of white and Latino university students gathered to hear Bernie Sanders offer promises of free college tuition and a higher minimum wage. Metres away in a university lecture hall, Pete Buttigieg was being grilled by an association of black law students over his record on race relations.

Critics of caucuses might call them burdensome, inaccessible or prone to human error. But this year’s presidential caucuses in Nevada will be less susceptible to one major criticism they received in 2016, especially from members of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing.

From the outset of Wednesday's boxing match of a debate in Las Vegas, Democrats piled on Mike Bloomberg and never relented, forcing the billionaire former New York mayor to clumsily explain his controversial stop-and-frisk policy, history of sexual harassment complaints from women and the exorbitant amount of his own fortune he has pumped into his campaign.

It has been over two months since the coronavirus outbreak was first reported and a lot about the virus continues to remain a mystery.

In an era of political leaders bullying those they disagree with, it is refreshing to see one stand up for a competitor.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is finding Nevada very different from New Hampshire.