Bobby Baker was once a "mixer of politics and personal business." Here’s Senator Richard Bryan with Nevada Yesterdays.

Last time we talked about UNLV turning sixty and several campus institutions turning fifty. There’s another fiftieth anniversary this year: Great Basin College, based in Elko.

UNLV is having a celebration.

You’ve heard it said before that Las Vegas is kind of a crossroads of the universe. Somehow, everything connects with the city never sleeps. Glen Campbell brings that to mind.

From his debut at the Flamingo to his Labor Day telethons, Jerry Lewis went hand in hand with Las Vegas. Here’s Senator Richard Bryan with Nevada Yesterdays.

An army air field in Nevada was fully opened for business when World War II came along. Here’s Senator Richard Bryan with Nevada Yesterdays.

When you take Interstate 15 between Las Vegas and southern California, you’re following a route that has been incredibly important to our history.

You may have seen the film about Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple who ended up suing for the right to marry. In 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, the U.S.

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s marriage to Priscilla Beaulieu. And it happened in Las Vegas.

We recently talked about the centennial of John Kennedy’s birth and his importance to Nevada.