Two candidates with ties to Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that has advocated for book bans and against policies that accommodate LGBTQ+ students, won their races on the Clark County School Board.

UNR and Truckee Meadows Community College are launching programs this fall that aim to increase turnout and make it easier for college students to vote.

For months, the university has worked to erase any traces of physical damage left behind in the aftermath of the Dec. 6 shooting.

The plan collapsed after a souring relationship between UNLV and the Nevada Health and Bioscience Corporation. Two years ago, the groups celebrated the construction of a medical school building.

The Engelstad Foundation will no longer provide financial support to UNLV, blaming a “poor and unacceptable” relationship with the university’s leadership.

An attempt to make it easier for students to apply for federal financial aid to attend college has led to a series of issues that has delayed Nevada colleges’ ability to get that assistance out to students.

In interviews with The Nevada Independent this week, top athletic administrators said budgeting four years in advance is something of an inexact science.

In interviews with The Nevada Independent, a mix of institutional leaders and budget gurus cast doubt on whether the worst projections would come to pass, especially as post-COVID enrollments have started to rebound. 

For nearly a week, the Board of Regents governing the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) has been thrust into national culture wars after one regent’s remarks about transgender athletes drew national media attention and spurred calls this week for his resignation. 

Kihuen’s hiring raised eyebrows across the state’s higher education system, with at least one state legislator saying she was uncomfortable with Kihuen’s hiring in a job that would bring him to Carson City.

The move would mark a return to the governmental sphere after Kihuen exited Congress in the wake of a congressional ethics probe into sexual misconduct allegations in 2018.

It marks the second such request in as many years, after regents declared a critical shortage of UPD officer and dispatch positions in late 2022. 

Schools on the outside looking in have struggled to kickstart average-to-moribund programs, as even stalwart programs have struggled to keep pace with the transfer portal. In this new world — where will Nevada’s programs fall?

At an all-hands employee meeting last week, UNLV President Keith Whitfield struck a balance — at once acknowledging the scope and scale of the tragedy, but also saying plainly that the university would need to “remain focused on our core operations.” 

Jason Geddes, one of the longest-serving recent members of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents and a one-time state assemblyman, died late Tuesday, sources close to Geddes’ family confirmed Wednesday. 

Despite there not being a guarantee, students and staff can take the first step, some need to get past a mistrust of law enforcement because of bad experiences in their home countries.

Nearly two weeks after a shooting at UNLV's campus left three dead and one wounded, few questions about what comes next have firm answers. 

Patricia Navarro Velez, Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang and Naoko Takemaru were part of the 38 percent of UNLV faculty that are Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander. 

Students and faculty interviewed by The Nevada Independent on Thursday said that the shooting was an all-too-familiar tragedy, but one that stirred their pride in a rapid and expansive community response. 

Three victims died in the Wednesday shooting. Citing law enforcement sources, The Associated Press reported that the suspect, who died in an exchange with police, was 67-year-old Anthony Polito.