University of Nevada-Las Vegas News

William Corney has listed for sale a two-bedroom, two-bath home at 10226 Ritornia Ave.

A scholarship has been started in memory of Alicia Karau, a 2002 Reed High School graduate who passed away at age 25 this fall from cancer.

A man walks into a casino and spends $5 million at a slot machine. He comes back and spends another $5 million, and then another and another and another.

Dustin Olson, the new chief of UCSB's campus police, will be difficult to shock.

Victor Gill remembers a time when business in Las Vegas was simpler. In the early 1970s, when his father, Jack Gill, worked as a print broker -- the middleman between casinos and the print shops -- Victor Gill sensed opportunity.

As reported here, many boomburbs have ceased growing, if only temporarily. Streetsblog notes that experts are suggesting that in order to maintain their economic viability, these fast growing communities will have to, gasp, become more urban in form Planetizen reported recently on USA Today's "Housing bust halts growing suburbs" . Now Streetsblog ...

Thursday is Thanksgiving, a day for expressing gratitude for all that we have. And for gathering with the ones we love.

A very interesting article in USA Today on the future viability of suburbs came up in our Twitter feed this morning, via Community Research Partners of Columbus, Ohio.

The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation's biggest rapidly expanding suburbs.

The ASU Police Departmenta s first K-9 unit was sworn into duty Tuesday and has been unleashed on the ASU campus and community.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 9:19 a.m. LAS VEGAS - UNLV is dismissing head football coach Mike Sanford after five losing seasons, a combined 15-43 record, and no bowl appearances.

Until this summer, Loc Tran, 59, was a technician at Nortel, a global communications company that has facilities at Research Triangle Park here.

In Las Vegas, house prices have dropped 55 percent since peaking in August, 2006, and the foreclosure rate is seven times the national average.

Action News would like to thank all of our veterans and their families for their service.

David Wong came to Las Vegas to try to save it from alien invasion. The native of China has been a researcher at the School of Community Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, since July 2008 for one reason - to wage war against quagga mussels.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas says it is developing a safety training program for construction workers with a $287,000 grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Florence McClure, nicknamed a oeHurricane Floa by the politicians she hounded and the journalists who covered her, died Thursday at age 88.

The interdenominational Christian university founded by charismatic televangelist Pat Robertson has found its next president following a six-month national search that began with Robertson's announced intention to retire.

REVIEW What: "Pink Champagne" When: 8 p.m. today; 2 p.m. Sunday Where: Black Box Theatre, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Tickets: $15 Grade: B- If you have time to see only the first act of Nevada Conservatory Theatre's "Pink Champagne," you should appreciate your good fortune.

H1N1 Flu Virus NEVADA EMPLOYERS REQUESTING DOSES Reports that some major companies in New York have received allocations of swine flu vaccine to administer to at least some of their workers have prompted charges that the vaccine, still in short supply and not yet available to most Americans, is going to a favored few.