With a mother battling drug abuse and no place to call home, college felt out of reach for Theresa Butler last year.

Nevada’s higher education system has eliminated a decade-old department dedicated to helping the state’s colleges develop training for health care workers.

The Nevada System of Higher Education has ended a 10-year-old program that sought to develop Nevada's health care workforce and encourage research.

Las Vegas is a hot market for minibars, but it won’t be forever. The hospitality industry is on the cusp of seeing a new type of guest amenity in place of minibars: robots.

The summer of 1976 bridged a middling collegiate basketball program’s rise from regional underdog to elite national status, fusing a desert culture and its identity in the process. Just as Jerry Tarkanian had augured.

Weeks before an influential state infrastructure panel is supposed to finish vetting plans for a 65,000-seat domed football stadium, stakeholders are still grappling with a fundamental aspect of the project.

When a police officer shot her boyfriend Philando Castile during a traffic stop, Diamond Reynolds reached for a powerful new medium to bring the world into the car with them — Facebook Live, the in-app streaming feature that broadcast the bloody and emotional aftermath of the fatal shooting that left her boyfriend slumped in the driver's seat beside her.

The nonpartisan, nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) today announced the formats for the three presidential and one vice presidential general election debates it will sponsor this fall. The formats for the 90-minute debates are designed to facilitate in-depth discussion of the leading issues facing the nation.

Staffers reviewing UNLV’s emergency alert system inadvertently triggered an email blast and phone calls this afternoon warning students and faculty of a gunman on campus, according to the university.