Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday launched her campaign for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s seat in 2016 and immediately was endorsed by the Democratic Party hierarchy from Nevada to the nation’s capital.

People have long imbued gold with mystical powers of immortality. Ancient alchemists ate it in search of longevity.

Researchers monitoring a recovering population of Peregrine Falcons in southern Nevada have discovered that the birds are contaminated with mercury, an element that has been correlated with increased mortality or reduced reproductive success in raptors and wading birds.

Each time a report has surfaced in recent weeks about UNLV freshman Rashad Vaughn’s intention to leave school and enter the NBA Draft, Vaughn and his family have been quick to dispute it.

Could it be for a stadium? Maybe for a medical school? What about housing?

Keith Belton doesn’t drink or take drugs. He bounces off enough walls on natural adrenaline alone, so anything artificially enhanced would send him through those same bricks.

If dug from the wreckage and dusted off hundreds of years from now, the introduction to Camille Paglia’s Glittering Images might seem a cautionary prelude to an intellectual end times of sorts, a last-minute plea for society to take hold of its senses and actually “see.”

Organizers of UNLV’s proposed medical school knew from the start that getting students to enroll in their program before it was fully accredited might be a tough sell.

UNLV may have an opportunity to wiggle out of its cramped, landlocked spot near the Strip.