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Sandoval reverses course, special session won’t address budget shortfall

Gov. Brian Sandoval abruptly abandoned plans Thursday to seek an even larger tax increase in an upcoming special session of the Legislature to plug a projected budget hole as conservative Republicans dug in their heels for a school choice program.

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Henderson, North Las Vegas ITT campuses closed in nationwide shutdown

ITT Educational Services Inc. has abruptly shut down its for-profit technical schools, closing more than 130 campuses and leaving an estimated 35,000 students stranded in what is believed to be one of the largest college closures in American history.

Teachers to shadow engineers operating robotics system

Two teachers from Southeast Career and Technical Academy began a two-week internship Tuesday shadowing production engineers who operate the Fanuc robotics system at Clearwater Paper in North Las Vegas. It’s the same robotics system that future Faraday Future engineers will operate.

$500K approved to help train students in manufacturing technology

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development board on Thursday approved spending up to $500,000 for equipment that will help train high school and College of Southern Nevada students in manufacturing technology.

Turn off devices and get some sleep, Huffington Post co-founder advises

Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the Huffington Post, asked about 100 students on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to do the seemingly impossible — to shut off and lock up their electronic devices so that they could get uninterrupted sleep at night.

UNLV professor plays role in U.S. oil exports

The U.S. economy experienced a landmark moment this month when the nation began exporting crude oil for the first time in four decades.