Nancy Lough, a professor in the UNLV education college and who has a sports-business background, said it’s a good move because the WNBA won’t compete against the NFL when the Raiders arrive in 2020 or the NHL Golden Knights in the Las Vegas market because the WNBA schedule is mostly in the summer.

In an emergency evacuation situation, a person’s natural instinct is to exit where they entered.

A town on the edge of the Navajo Nation that unknowingly drank uranium-tainted water for at least 12 years.

In the days after the shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, many stories emerged of bystander courage. Volunteers combed the grounds for survivors and carried out the injured. Strangers used belts as makeshift tourniquets to stanch bleeding, and then others sped the wounded to hospitals in the back seats of cars and the beds of pickup trucks.

Nearly 50 years after we went to the Moon, Mars is in our sights.

UNLV’s Team Las Vegas won second place in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Engineering contest today for its Sinatra Living home, one of 10 contests taking place during the 10-day competition.

Students at UNLV took home a second-place prize in an international Solar Decathlon. The challenge: create a building that integrates solar and energy efficiency technologies seamlessly in the design.

“You never think it’ll happen to you. You see these horrific events on TV and try to imagine how you would react, or how you would survive, or IF you would survive,” wrote Brianna Hicks, a 22-year-old local who was at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1 when bullets tore into the crowd.

Confusion, fear and grief gripped UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center in the hours following the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.