Las Vegas’ economy has made big strides since the depths of the recession, when foreclosures, layoffs and bankruptcies were pummeling the valley.

If you could change one thing about your teaching, what would it be?

As UNLV’s game against Duke quickly got away Saturday, D’mon Cotton knew he had a lot of time to fill on the radio broadcast, knowing most listeners no longer would care much about the play-by-play.

I have one word of advice for UNLV fans. PATIENCE.

Look out baseball, football and basketball — you’ve got some competition.

A group of conservative UNLV students has sent a petition to President Len Jessup asking him not to declare the university a sanctuary campus and to meet to discuss the issue.

Slate’s Michelle Goldberg has called it “Trump-induced anxiety” and “a national nervous breakdown.”

Cancer is the second highest cause of death among African Americans. There have been numerous studies examining the racial gap in cancer rates and mortality rates of cancer patients. Now a new study by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas examines differences in cancer and mortality rates between native-born African Americans and Blacks born in Caribbean nations.

I was in no rush to see Oil, the exhibit of large-format photographs by Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, which opened back in September at UNLV’s Barrick Museum. For one thing, it’s up until January 14 — still a lotta time on the clock. But for another, knowing Burtynsky’s subject (the life cycle of oil, from drilling to disposal) I had a pretty good idea of what I’d see. Petroleum gothic: vistas of industrial grime and the desolate machinery of extraction; bafflingly dense pipescapes only a cyborg could love, each limned in harsh chemical lights; highways choked with cars whose drivers remain oblivious to the massively destructive process that makes it all go. Blights on the land. Oodles of black goop. All presented with a documentary matter-of-factness that not so subtly implicates the viewer: Do you understand what we’re doing here?