The first hospital is scheduled to break ground on March 2 with the rest being finished by the end of 2017.

Whether inveterate party loyalists or curious first-timers, the one certainty about the caucuses is that people either love them or hate them.

On February 1, more than 4,000 students were set to receive funds that would have gone to the public education system, but that they could instead apply to private school, online school or home schooling. But it looks like kids and parents will have to put those plans on hold.

Look, I love the RTC. To my mind, it’s the most transparent of Nevada’s state-funded agencies: We can account for every nickel it gets by simply by looking around. ...All that being said, these past three years have been, um, challenging for me.

There were quite a few changes at UNLV in 2015: a new president, a medical school, plans for a major land purchase. But one development that’s been put on hold is a partnership between UNLV and Nevada Public Radio to run the college’s KUNV radio station.

While Christmas songs are encouraging us to feel goodwill toward each other, there is something we can do that is far more tangible to help thousands of kids this holiday season, and beyond.

At ground level, it’s fallen largely to the shop owners themselves to combat wrongheaded notions of Downtown shopping. But they’re doing it.

Life under the Fremont Street Experience canopy could be a lot different when new rules are scheduled to be enforced on Nov. 16.

In a town full of fake castles, pretend skylines and mock pyramids, sometimes we don’t notice the real masterpieces right in front of us. Such is the work of architect Hugh E. Taylor.

Our biggest piece of cinematic PR since 2009 has been The Hangover series.The three movies may have given Las Vegas millions in free advertising, but what message were they sending?

With each debate the city is sure to garner positive national media attention as a place to do serious business and a venue for civil discourse.

A black man in a bejeweled white jumpsuit stands on the pedestrian bridge linking the Tropicana to MGM Grand. Although Las Vegas is no stranger to Elvis impersonators, this one is not the average street performer who hit the block after purchasing a bottle of hair gel. This one is O.J. Simpson.

Black Rock City, the ad hoc metropolis created annually for the sole purpose of hosting the Burning Man festival, has its own volunteer post office. You can actually send letters there. What’s more interesting, however, is that mail can actually come out of this strange, alkali-dusted parallel universe.

These days, burnout is an accepted outcome of being a teacher. The spark that motivates us to go into that classroom every day starts to fizzle, ground down by a host of pressures. There’s the ever-increasing amount of rigid rules and regulations.

Among a certain set of travel writers, the notion that Las Vegas is a kind of “Disneyland for adults” has, through repeated mention, become a received wisdom. Just Google “Vegas” and “Disneyland for adults,” and observe 10-plus years of editorial groupthink, from TripAdvisor to Yahoo.