Las Vegas Valley students were honored for their achievements in and out of the classroom at the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s inaugural Academic Excellence Awards dinner.
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Students who attend a state college will pay 4 percent more in student fees in 2019 and 2020 with Friday’s close vote of the state Board of Regents.
Nicole Rourke, associate superintendent of community and government relations, will leave her post next week to serve as a deputy administrative services director with the city, a spokeswoman for the district confirmed.
A committee of the state Board of Regents took the first step of many on Monday in the process to replace longtime College of Southern Nevada President Michael Richards.
The Brookings Institution is hoping for vigorous, civil and constructive debate surrounding America’s foreign policy at UNLV on Monday.
The same morning a hearing was held to ask the court to force UNLV to reopen its maternal-HIV program an attorney for the university said there is no need for such action.
A $250,000 donation from a local personal injury law firm will fund legal counsel for unaccompanied immigrant children through UNLV’s law school, the school announced in a press release Wednesday.
Thompson Elementary in northwest Las Vegas and Wallin Elementary in Henderson are celebrating the honor, given out to only 342 schools in the nation this year.
Clark County School District superintendent’s surprise announcement that he will step down at the end of June 2018 included signals that he intends to take some of those he considers trouble-makers with him.
Police asked drivers to slow down and parents to practice safe pedestrian habits as students head into the first day of school Monday.
As Nevada’s drone industry takes shape, companies seek to hire local talent.
The Clark County School District violated federal Title IX law that protects students from sexual harassment in the handling of a 2011 complaint of a special education student, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights concluded in December.
A northwest Las Vegas charter school will be closed Monday and Tuesday due to widespread symptoms of a gastrointestinal illness, possibly norovirus.
Joel Laub and Chip Johnson began an effort in 2015 to rename Swenson Street as University Parkway or University Boulevard in order to give the campus more clearly defined boundaries and signal UNLV’s presence to Vegas visitors.
Alumni of the old Las Vegas High School worry that its historic buildings will be torn down or fall down from benign neglect.