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Plus: What to see, hear, and do in Nevada through the next week.
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- Why are higher education costs in Nevada rising?
- FBI bio lab probe, CCSD priorities, and the Sundance Film Festival finds a new home
- Gone are the days of the $1 buffet in Las Vegas as $175 buffets offer luxury dining
- Eviction aid expands, Las Vegas tourism drops and park signage dispute grows in Death Valley
- Vegas City Opera puts a different spin on 'Romeo & Juliet'
- Vegas Loop permit, infant formula recall and Lombardo's statement on the Minnesota protest
- Death Valley landmark Scotty’s Castle is reopening for limited tours after years of flood repairs
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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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Pat McCarran was Nevada's first native-born U.S. Senator and its most powerful 20th-century politician. Learn how he rose from underdog to Nevada Senator.
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Thirty years ago, a bulldozer stunt put the rural Nevada county at the center of a national movement — one that still reverberates
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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Hundreds of dogs competed for the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this week. Penny the Doberman pinscher was named best in show.
