Since 2006, the county has sent roughly $11 million in collected air pollution penalties to the school district. The school district has used that money to support science- and technology-related curriculum and professional development for teachers. It also serves as the funding source for a pollen-monitoring project in partnership with UNLV.

During the pandemic, work changed. More people worked at home because COVID-19 was so contagious.

Some of the employers attending will be University Medical Center, Spring Mountain Treatment Center, Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging (SDMI), UNLV Health, Boston Dental Group and The Valley Health System.

At UNLV, students from Hawaii said Las Vegas is their home away from home and with the Maui wildfires, they’re doing everything they can to help.

Bill welcomes debut novelist and memoirist Jarret Keene to the show. Jarret earned his Ph.D. in creative writing at Florida State University. A beloved and highly sought after professor, Dr. Keene is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he teaches American literature and the graphic novel. He has written a travel guide, a rock-band biography, poetry collections and edited short-fiction anthologies including Las Vegas Noir and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas. Hammer of the Dogs published by University of Nevada Press (September 12, 2023) is his first novel.

“Ensuring we can address what is a national crisis, reducing roadway fatalities,” U.S. DOT Assistant Secretary Christopher Coes said during an visit Thursday at the UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine.

The Nevada Republican Party announced it will hold its presidential caucus Feb. 8, two days after the state’s presidential preference primary.

Let’s get something straight: Nevada may be the Mississippi of the West, but so are Arizona, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Colorado, and any state in any part of the country. Illinois is the Mississippi of the Midwest and so are all of the other Midwestern states. New York is the Mississippi of the Northeast and so are the other 12 northeastern states. 

Campaign leaders and their archives recall the year-long fight that resulted in secure abortion rights, even post-Roe