A UNLV geology professor recently identified fossilized tracks from a primitive reptile on a fallen slab of rock along one of Grand Canyon National Park’s best-known trails.
Education
An elementary school in the far northwest Las Vegas Valley was evacuated Tuesday morning after a fire alarm was activated.
Las Vegas students gathered Thursday for one of several sign-making events held this week in preparation for Saturday’s event, one of the many sibling marches slated as part of the national March for Our Lives movement.
It’s been three days since Thom Reilly announced the creation of a chief operating officer position for UNLV, and little is known about who will hold the job and what that person will do.
The Clark County School Board once again delays a vote on whether to craft a policy on how to address the needs of gender-diverse students, sparking backlash at individual trustees from people on both sides of the controversial debate.
Police said the student called one of the district offices and made the threat, after which police were able to track him down and arrest him without incident Wednesday evening in a public place.
But regaining a sense of normalcy has been made even more difficult recently after the College of Southern Nevada student learned that she lost her Millennium Scholarship.
Two current Clark County School Board trustees — Kevin Child and Linda Cavazos — are hoping to keep their seats in November, while at least one newcomer will seek to join the board in a third race.
Kweku Turkson, 37, an English teacher at West Prep Academy, was arrested Friday by Metropolitan Police Department officers and is jailed on counts of lewdness and attempted lewdness with a minor.
Ted Jelen, a professor credited with helping raise the profile of the UNLV politics science department over the last two decades, died Tuesday after a lengthy illness. He was 65.
Mission High School, the district’s new program for students struggling with alcohol or drugs, has grown from six students to 21 in its first two months of operation.
People who didn’t graduate from a Nevada high school because they failed proficiency exams are now eligible for a retroactive diploma.
Nearly 50 bicyclists from Southern Nevada and across the country deliver books to Jack Dailey Elementary School students to promote literacy and healthy living on Friday.
Signs of excess are everywhere on the Strip, but the Clark County School District struggles to fill even basic needs. Why are our schools starving?
The elimination of a program for at-risk high school students and a first round of job reductions are occurring even as schools wait for final figures on how much they must carve out.
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