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10th-graders get close-up look at Las Vegas tourism

Thirty 10th-grade students from Las Vegas’ Core Academy will get a five-week up-close look at the tourism and hospitality industry beginning next week.

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.

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.