Officials say the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has a chance to get a $100,000 library grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to document Latino contributions to southern Nevada.

Looking to further its reach into the developing esports industry, UNLV plans to host an exhibition competition among fellow Mountain West schools during the conference’s annual basketball tournaments.

With news that Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen won’t seek reelection in 2018 amid accusations of sexual harassment, all eyes are turning to who might replace him.

When Democrats looked to Congressional District 4 just three weeks ago, they were expecting to go into a November 2018 battle with an incumbent poised for reelection, with ties to the progressive, labor, and Latino communities. But that changed Dec. 1, when Buzzfeed brought claims forward by a former Kihuen campaign aide who said he made sexual advances.

The Metropolitan Police Department is training additional officers to act as immigration agents at the county detention center, the department said Tuesday in a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

This was a hectic year for immigration litigation, with a steady stream of big travel ban rulings and several immigration-related opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, including ones on important issues like citizenship-stripping and bad attorney advice. Here are some of the biggest immigration cases from 2017.

I’m not going to tell you what to do with your baby’s placenta after birth. If the doctor lets you have it, and you would like to encapsulate it, sauté it, or even ink it to make placenta prints, that is your decision to make. But you should at least know whether scientists have found any health benefits to consuming it.

More than nine months after UNLV and MGM Resorts International announced the creation of a bipartisan think tank, the two entities have assembled an initial list of advisory board members to set research priorities and lead the institute.

This stadium authority meeting did not start Thursday. It pretty much just continued from November’s icy gathering right through a much warmer 90 minutes at UNLV’s Foundations Building.