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A Las Vegas specialty court for minor Strip and tourism-area crimes, disbanded in 2024, may return as the resort industry pushes for it in Thursday’s special legislative session.
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Daily Rundown
- Nevada senators vote to end shutdown, Animal Foundation pop-up, and new LVMPD substation underway
- Power bills may soon look different as NV Energy pursues rate change
- Raiders fire special teams coordinator Tom McMahon after another costly loss
- Las Vegas pet shop bans, NV Energy investigation, and a downtown cocktail renaissance
- Las Vegas artist Brett Bolton makes music to see
- Harry Reid delays amid ATC safety concerns, Raiders safety returns, and stores aid holiday SNAP gaps
- Nevada ransomware attack started months before it was discovered, per report
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Mountain West News Bureau
A new national survey by the Urban Indian Health Institute is working to reveal how widespread traumatic brain injuries are among Indigenous survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
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Mountain West News Bureau
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Associated Press
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There’s no shortage of cool things to do at any time in Nevada.
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What's Happening in Las Vegas?
The Guide is a community-submitted cultural calendar which lists events of interest to the local Southern Nevada community. Here's the latest:
The Guide is a community-submitted cultural calendar which lists events of interest to the local Southern Nevada community. Here's the latest:
Nevada Public Radio Original Podcasts
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Scott Suchman
New Caribbean steakhouse Maroon will offer an important history lesson, a cultural experience, and food by an award-winning chef
UNLV Special Collections
The story of Nevada's Virginia and Truckee Railroad, built in 1869 to transport Comstock silver. Learn how financier William Sharon bluffed counties into funding "the crookedest railroad in the world," featuring 17 circles down the mountain.
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Nevada Public Radio
Why doesn’t Las Vegas have more Basque dining options?
Sink your teeth into our annual collection of dining — and drinking — stories, including a tally of Sin City's Tiki bars, why good bread is having a moment, and how one award-winning chef is serving up Caribbean history lessons through steak. Plus, discover how Las Vegas is a sports town, in more ways than one. Bon appétit!
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Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+. -
A new deal to end the government shutdown may briefly restore staff to U.S. Education Department offices that had been gutted by layoffs. -
The Transportation Secretary says air traffic controllers will be paid promptly as the government reopens. But after the last shutdown, in 2019, some controllers sued to get paid in full for overtime. -
In the 2015 attacks, 130 people were killed, including at the Bataclan concert hall. France is still wrestling with how to remember the deadliest attack on its soil in modern history and how to live with it. -
The Smithsonians, National Gallery of Art and other sites that receive federal funding are announcing their reopening plans now that the government shutdown is over. Past closures have been costly.
