In honor of National News Literacy Week, 13 Action News spoke to a former journalist turned UNLV instructor who is committed to helping aspiring journalists by teaching news literacy skills.

Are we too comfortable? Do we complain too much?

Michael Easter is the author of The Comfort Crisis, a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine, and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

Steve Johnston’s interest in amassing a hoard of toys and action figures began when he was young. What started as a small trading hobby at age 14 became his profession — he’s the toy expert on the Las Vegas-based reality television show “Pawn Stars.”

Once the definitive Vegas book, what does Hunter S. Thompson’s classic say about us now?

Two Clark County School Board trustees have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Sinclair Broadcast Group and its local affiliate KSNV-TV urging the removal of a “false and misleading political advertisement” paid for by the Clark County teachers union.

Two members of the Clark County School Board sent a cease and desist letter to Sinclair Broadcast Group and its local affiliate KSNV-TV calling for the removal of a “false and misleading political advertisement” paid for by the Clark County teachers union.

Graduates of the Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at University of Nevada, Las Vegas will now be given a direct path to employment.

From the early days of culture, humans have known that too much of anything is good for nothing.

Getting outside of your comfort zone is so associated with creativity that it’s almost cliché.

Humans have it easier now than ever before.

Born on Nov. 10, the Marine Corps birthday, in Oceanside, California, home of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, the stars aligned for Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jen S. Martinez, formerly Marine Staff Sergeant Martinez, to join the U.S. Marine Corps.