The first week of the 2015-2016 NFL season was not a good one for Nevada’s sports books, as one sports book manager told ESPN that he couldn’t “remember a worse opening Sunday.”

Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a lease deal on Tuesday that will expand the leased space set aside for the University of Nevada School of Medicine.

While gambling, dining and shopping are popular reasons for visiting Las Vegas, several organizations have partnered to bolster the city's reputation as a legitimate destination for medical and wellness tourism.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval last week made five appointments to the Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority.

Like many students at the College of Southern Nevada, Brenda Romero goes to class, studies regularly and finds time for extracurricular activities.

Dr. Mario Livio says even Albert Einstein made mistakes. His biggest one involved not realizing the universe was expanding at the fast pace that it is.

Nevada education officials have approved a plan to develop an outdated apartment complex near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, advancing efforts to house as many as 740 additional students near the campus by 2017.

Five Southern Nevada residents, including a financial expert, the general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission and an engineering professor, have been named to the new Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority.

It probably never seemed possible that bustling and historic 19th-century Paris would collide with a small gambling city in the American Southwest. But in 1959, nine decades after the still-running Folies-Bergère opened in France’s capital, Les Folies Bergere opened at Las Vegas’ Tropicana, following the arrival of Lido de Paris a year earlier at the Stardust, further cementing the French-inspired showgirl into a Vegas icon.