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- Heat summit planning, Alzheimer’s trials growth and rising airfare costs
- Dolly Parton cancels Las Vegas residency due to health issues: 'Everything I have is treatable'
- Gas price updates, Dolly Parton cancels Vegas residency and Knights win Game 1
- Barbashev scores late on disputed goal as the Golden Knights beat the Ducks 3-1 in Game 1
- Spirit Airlines folds, opioid settlement funds and marijuana rescheduling
- Golden Knights build on late-season success under coach John Tortorella in playoffs
- Spirit Airlines built a model the industry copied. Then it collapsed
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KUNC
Mountain West News Bureau
A new analysis of public federal workforce data shows about 5,800 fewer workers at public lands agencies in 2025 compared to the year before.
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AP
Mountain West News Bureau
Illustration: Nevada Public Radio
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Photos: Unsplash, Courtesy Keith Thompson
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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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From UNLV's first library in 1957 to co-founding Joyce and Martin Advertising, Marydean Martin shaped southern Nevada for decades. Remembering a librarian, philanthropist, and community builder.
Photo courtesy of the Clark County School District
In her first year, CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert says, community needs, data, and a changing world drive her decisions
Blaze new and old trails alike with Desert Companion's outdoor and recreation issue! Tag alongside five writers as they wax poetic about their favorite nature walks, meet the man better known as Cactus Joe, and catch up with Nevada politico Jon Ralston ahead of the release of his biography on the late Sen. Harry Reid. Plus, discover how one year of Trump has already changed Nevada.
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We pay tribute to the moms, the mamas and the mommies. It's our Mother's Day show! Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station. -
The U.S. says it intercepted Iranian attacks yesterday targeting three Navy ships. And, what to know about the hantavirus outbreak that started on a cruise ship. -
The U.S. military said its forces had fired upon and disabled two more Iranian tankers that were trying to breach an American blockade of Iran's ports, in the latest blows to a shaky ceasefire.
