Preston Keres
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Potash and phosphate are now on the 2025 critical minerals list.
Ryan Vellinga
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Nevada Public Radio
Rachel Cohen
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KUNC
Mountain West News Bureau
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- Film tax credit clears early hurdle in special session, Clark County kicks off toy drive, and Pulp!
- Nevada Supreme Court sends 'fake electors' case back to Clark County
- Nevada lawmakers consider reviving court that barred offenders from the Las Vegas Strip
- Nevada Legislature special session begins, Colorado River deadline missed, and prediction markets blocked
- See Hear Do: November 12-18
- Nov. 12: Groundwater conservation, elder suicide rates and a favorite NPR personality
- Can a Nevada water rights buy-back program keep its groundwater from drying up?
Steve Vigil
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The Nature Conservancy
Mountain West News Bureau
Data analyzed by the advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters shows that prescribed fires and other hazardous fuel reduction efforts have fallen by nearly 40% across the West this year.
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Jordan Uplinger
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Wyoming Public Radio
Mountain West News Bureau
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The newsy jokester opines on Vegas drivers, the press, and finding the funny in troubled times.
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Evan Agostini
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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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Scott Suchman
New Caribbean steakhouse Maroon will offer an important history lesson, a cultural experience, and food by an award-winning chef
Josh Hawkins
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UNLV
Selma Bartlett made her mark on southern Nevada. When she died recently just before her 98th birthday, she was remembered for doing a lot to build Henderson and Nevada State University.
UNLV Special Collections
Harvey Georges
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AP
Rick Sealock
When the going gets tough, the tough find respite in the familiar (but still write to their senators!)
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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Missouri was the second Republican-led state to redraw its congressional map.
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Disability activist and author Alice Wong died Friday at age 51 in California. -
Thirty-five years after the Grammys revoked Milli Vanilli's best new artist award, former member Fab Morvan has been nominated in a surprising twist. -
Mostly they're charmed. Some witches we talked to couldn't wait for the new Wicked release. But some worry that the films have helped move the secret, spiritual art of witchcraft into the mainstream. -
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
