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War destroys civilization; literature nourishes it. What to make of the literature of war, then — The Iliad, The Red Badge of Courage, The Things They Carried, Catch-22? It’s a tradition tasked with revealing the best of humanity at its very worst (and, also, the worst of humanity at its very worst) ...

Rick Lattin is a fifth-generation farmer whose family has been growing crops in the Lahontan Valley since 1909. But his particular operating model is simultaneously old-school and modern.

Joe McCarthy of the Comstock Residents Assocation is fighting a proposed mining operation in his Silver City neighborhood.

Lots of students work during high school. But what happens when they support an entire family? Some teens burn out — but many catch fire.

When I say “downtown resident,” who pops to mind? A bearded hipster, a fresh-faced Zapponista, a manic pixie dream barista? But maybe the iconic downtown denizen is a man huddled in a blanket in a dead storefront’s doorway. A homeless man ...

In a person’s darkest hour — when a loved one has died — the volunteers of the Trauma Intervention Program make sure the survivors don’t grieve alone.

Raising a transgender child in Las Vegas is filled with surprises, challenges and trials — but few resources and little help

Could a scrappy animal advocacy group’s contractual coup hasten a new era in animal control for Southern Nevada?

On the front lines with homeless advocate Merideth Spriggs. She's using new outreach technology, and dreams of a day where no lives on the streets of Las Vegas.

Urban gleaner Rhonda Killough harvests the valley’s free-falling bounty to feed hungry bodies and soulsBy the time Rhonda Killough, founder of Project AngelFaces, arrives at Danny and Kathy Blood’s home in the Whitney neighborhood, a couple ladders are already set up under the humongous fig tree in their backyard. It’s 9 a.