There’s been a lot of controversy about UNLV’s Hey Reb! mascot this year. - See more at: http://vegasseven.com/2015/12/02/unlv/#sthash.F36XFFCQ.dpuf

A popular refrain among defenders of UNLV’s nickname and mascot is that “history matters.”

He is all bushy mustache and jutting chin below a pair of beady black eyes. His wide, gray hat perches at a tilt and his skin is the color of early peaches.

A reader asks how Nevada will pay for road maintenance with gas tax money with more people switching to hybrids and electric cars.

When we think about how cities grow and evolve, we often overlook a key to that growth: airports.

Aside from a handful of astronauts, the only living beings to have seen an inhabited planet looming large in the sky come from science fiction.

Las Vegas is nearing a record that no one is proud of.

The founding dean of UNLV's School of Community Health Sciences was once known as "Dr. Herpes," because of her work studying sexually transmitted diseases for the Centers for Disease Control in the early 1980s.

Vegas taking note of today being World AIDS Day, this morning the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the South Strip turned red.