Centennial High School math teacher Carminda Ranches, a stalwart figure at the northwest valley campus, was recently named Clark County’s Educator of the Month for December.
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Clark County School District’s magnet program expansion will increase the number of magnet seats by about 25 percent over two years. The problem is transportation, which the district plans to greatly reduce by more than $30 million.
Eric Rasmussen, an English professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, has spent nearly two decades researching and cataloging all known copies of Shakespeare’s first folio of collected works. So when a small-town library in France needed an expert opinion on a very old document found in the library’s collection, it was Rasmussen who got the call.
Kesterson Elementary School first-grade teacher Nicole Schwedrsky is honored as September Clark County Educator of the Month for her ability to connect with students.
In a state with few higher education bragging rights, UNLV’s first-tier law school produces graduates that are in demand locally, with students doing well on the state bar exam. But the school’s success could plummet quickly if something isn’t done about the dearth in its budget.
They went to some places in the world where American soldiers are seldom seen, where Kirundi and Swahili are spoken more than English, where the way of life is much different than the UNLV campus where they walk around in camouflaged uniforms that student ROTC cadets wear to become Army officers.
The state’s Board of Regents’ health sciences committee is hashing out the details of what it will take to fund a medical school for UNLV.
One minute, 8-year-old Zorion Connell is talking about Legos and toy guns, and the next he’s articulating math equations using Ohm’s law. On April 5, he passed the Federal Communications Commission’s amateur radio license exam.
It was the smell that led to the discovery of a 58-year-old UNLV student who died in her dorm room last month. A dorm counselor investigating a strange odor from the room found her body on Sept. 5 in Faiman Residence Hall.
Kevin Raiford, a business professor at the College of Southern Nevada, was recently ranked third on ratemyprofessors.com’s 2011-12 list of top professors.
Elementary, middle and high schools in the same neighborhoods are going to get a lot cozier with each other as they are organized into cooperative teams beginning this month. The Clark County School District will be creating 14 “performance zones” based on location and achievement.
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New information shows Shane Tamura was placed on a “L2K” mental health hold in 2022 and again in 2024, two months before he purchased the firearm he used to kill four and himself in New York City.
A smoke alert has been issued for the Las Vegas Valley as a result of California wildfires, the Clark County Division of Air Quality announced.
When wildfires burn, the smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, which presents risks for those breathing it. Here’s what to know about taking precautions against poor air quality due to wildfires.
A supermarket and a brewery have drawn up plans for new locations in a building in the Boca Park shopping center that has sat vacant for nearly a decade.
