Gov. Brian Sandoval was at UNLV Thursday to sign several new bills that will benefit higher education in Nevada. State lawmakers approved several measures during their latest session including $25 million for UNLV's new School of Medicine.

Several factors point toward slower growth, but the recovery from the 2008 Great Recession is almost complete.

When you go out of town, you usually need to buy a few nights at a hotel in addition to a plane, train, or bus ticket.

Brandan Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, wants to combine these components into one experience. He designed what he calls the "Hyperloop Hotel," a system that would feature a transit system and 13 hotels in different cities throughout the United States.

When Anthony Smith committed to UNLV on Jan. 16, the program was in a different place. The Rebels were scuffling their way toward a 10-21 record, and with a roster that had been pieced together at the last minute, it didn’t look like an immediate turnaround was on the horizon.

Erin Hills isn’t just a big golf course at north of 7,700 yards for this year’s U.S. Open, it’s a big property period, spread over 650-plus acres of rolling Wisconsin heartland. The grandstands, the crowds, the walk from green to tee, the slopes, the rough, the prize money, even the fairways. Big, big, big, big, big, big, big.

UNLV officials say they will step up efforts to distribute more than $12 million that has accumulated over the past few years in the university’s financial-aid coffers.

The Southern Nevada economy continues to grow but with some indicators showing slower growth. That’s the big takeaway from a midyear economic outlook being presented Wednesday by UNLV professor and Center for Business and Economic Research director Stephen Miller.

Space travel is scary, a lot more scary that roaming in an unknown rainforest. The dangers are infinite, and there are very few ways to escape them. While some of us are planning to colonize Mars, it is not nearly as simple as we thought. Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has determined that the models which estimate the risk of cancer posed to the astronauts traveling to Mars are incomplete.

Gaming is serious business. Globally, it represents nearly a billion players contributing to an over $100 billion industry. To put that in perspective, video games in 2016 dwarfed total movie-ticket sales around the world by a good $62.5 billion. But it’s just as lucrative of a cash generator in the U.S., where revenues are expected to exceed $25 billion this year.