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The silhouette of a power transmission line vanishing into a point in the distance during sunset.
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Mountain West News Bureau
The power grid across Western states is under growing strain. Now, a new report argues the region’s governments and utilities need to work together to keep the lights on and costs down.
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Alex Hager
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Mountain West News Bureau
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Mountain West News Bureau
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Cole Weber
There’s no shortage of what to see, hear, and do at any time in Nevada. Here are some highlighted cultural events for the week starting February 11.
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Vitor Munhoz
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Sammy Davis Jr. singing onstage at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, most likely in the 1960s.
UNLV Special Collections
Sammy Davis Jr. headlined the Las Vegas Strip but faced segregation, mob threats, and violence offstage. Part 1 of his Las Vegas story.
With smoke billowing from a wildfire on Mt. Charleston above the Spring Mountains, a wild burro pauses as it walks through Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, near Las Vegas. More than 270 additional firefighters arrived Tuesday to help battle the fire sparked by lightning July 1, bringing to 1,077 the number of people fighting the blaze about 25 miles northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Overall containment dropped from 15 percent to 10 percent as erratic gusts of wind pushed flames up canyons, down the mountain and across state Route 157. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Julie Jacobson
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AP
An already vulnerable Nevada will be uniquely hurt by President Trump’s federal land protection rollbacks
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.