The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is planning to send a group of students to Cuba as part of a business program on campus.

A group of conservative students against the idea of UNLV being declared a sanctuary campus characterized a Thursday meeting with President Len Jessup as a “very productive” exchange.

Reports of a new space race tell of NASA’s plan to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk’s ambition to get private explorers there first. This race, however, can’t be won with either’s current technology, regardless of their spending or commitment.

Slot machine players in Nevada leave an average of $8 million in winnings a year for the state and the casinos to keep, according to a report from Vegas Inc.

A week after UNLV President Len Jessup met with a group of students seeking sanctuary status for the campus, he’ll meet on Thursday morning with conservative students who are opposed to the idea.

The UNLV athletes who live at the Rebel Place Apartments near campus see these children on most days. It seemed only fitting they celebrate the holidays together.

On most class projects, students are concerned with their grade. At the Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition, engineering students at UNLV also are concerned with winning cash and maybe even getting their project on the market.

It's winter break. All is quite on campus until a voice interrupts a December afternoon. “The emergency notification system has been activated,” said the recording, which came promptly at 2 p.m.

Christel Marie San Diego came to the United States from the Philippines four years ago with her own American Dream. After graduating from college and reading books like “Think and Grow Rich” and “The Power of Habit,” she plans to own a business — and perhaps outearn her parents.