Older adults will receive health insurance and other benefits as the result of a $20 million federal grant to the State Health Division. The money will be distributed in $4 million annual increments for five years. About $3.3 million of the $4 million per year from the ...

A Chinese university said Tuesday it had started to build the world's largest quake simulator, a week after the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake in southwest China. It will be used to accurately test the designs of bridges, tunnels, subways, stadiums and skyscrapers, Shanghai's Tongji University said in an emailed statement. The four vibrating platforms, capable of ...

Nevada has long been more generous to its northern colleges than to those down south. The favoritism dates back decades. In May 1962, less than five years after UNLV opened on Maryland Parkway, the Las Vegas Review-Journal ran an ...