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Windsor Park construction stalls, Colorado River inflow drops, Nevada tuition increases, auto insurance rates climb, and CCSD considers semester exams for middle schoolers.
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Author and BMI Shearing Fellow Isle McElroy talks gender norms, life in Las Vegas, and protagonists who are just the right amount of complicated
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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:
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Sample the Nevada-centric food trend of Basque cuisine in these Las Vegas cheesecakes
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Rossi Ralenkotter spent 45 years at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, creating the studies that shaped tourism strategy and helping land the city's biggest events.
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Native Bound Unbound
Excavating the truth of Indigenous slavery in the Western Hemisphere
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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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Writer Jason Zengerle says Carlson had the foresight to see Trump's potential in 2015. Now he's someone the president "definitely listens to." Zengerle's new book is Hated by All the Right People. -
Researchers discovered a feedback loop between nerve cells, the immune system and the heart. They think it shows promise as a target for future therapies. -
Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd spoke with Sarah Zhang, a reporter for The Atlantic, about how people are searching the web and using the app Telegram to buy next-generation GLP-3 drugs not yet approved by U.S. regulators.
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The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela. -
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