The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents approved a biennial budget request for about $843 million in 2016 and $888.9 million in 2017 for its seven schools. Within that budget is a $45 million request in state funding to establish UNLV’s medical school and expand the program at University of Nevada-Reno.

On the Las Vegas Strip, north is the new south. Long dominated by old-school casinos and mega-resorts that never were, new players are betting big bucks that the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard between Spring Mountain Road and Sahara Avenue could provide the city’s next big jackpot.

Las Vegas is edging closer to getting its own medical school. The state Board of Regents decided Friday to ask the governor to put $45.94 million toward transforming medical education in Nevada.

UNLV welcomed students for Rebel Welcome Day on Friday. All new students were invited to the Thomas & Mack Center to start off the next exciting chapter in their lives.

It's a big day as students settle on campus to start a new year.

Call them the None of the Above Generation … religiously speaking. Not godless, per se. Perhaps even God-fearing. Just not eager to wear a label other than that of secular individualist.

The pair is a precious unit — private, generative, even holy. We can explore a couple’s inner workings if we have an invitation to do so. Otherwise, we must use any available external means: letters in archives, revealing anecdotes, loose-lipped quips in interviews. In order to understand creativity, we must learn from couples, Joshua Wolf Shenk argues in his new book, “Powers of Two.”

Mark Adams shares five unique classes that range from artificial intelligence to Latin nightclub dance.

Law enforcement from the Nevada Highway Patrol, Clark County School District Police Department and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department were out in force at South Maryland Parkway and Reno Avenue Thursday morning.