Skip to main content
Nevada Public Radio
  • News 88.9 KNPR
  • Classical 89.7 kcnv
  • Magazine Desert Companion
  • About

    How to reach us

    1289 S. Torrey Pines Dr.
    Las Vegas, NV 89146

    Main Number:  1-702-258-9895
    Toll Free: 1-888-258-9895

    More contact info

     

     

      • Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Employment
      • FCC Applications
      • CPB Compliance
      • Our Policies
      • Listen on the Radio
      • Other Ways to Listen
      • Sign-up for NVPR News
      • FCC Public Inspection File
      • CPB Funding
      • History
    • News 88.9 KNPR
    • Classical 89.7 KCNV
    • Desert Companion
  • Programs
  • Events
  • Support
  • myPublicRadio
  • Donate Now

Main menu

Search

Listen

News 88.9 KNPR
Classical 89.7 KCNV
Podcasts view all

member station

Support

Subscribe to Historic Westside

Historic Westside

KNPR
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

African American Museum planned for Las Vegas’ Westside

Jun 27, 2022

Las Vegas’ Historic Westside community is paving the way for an African American Museum and Cultural Arts Center, as part of its road map to revitalization

KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Las Vegas' Westside Trains Residents For Esports, Tech Jobs

Jul 30, 2021

One of Las Vegas’ oldest neighborhoods is counting on technology to provide tomorrow’s employment opportunities.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Joe Neal: The Westside Slugger

Jan 16, 2019

Joe Neal was the first African American elected to Nevada’s Senate, a position he held for 32 years.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
Newscast headlines

New Developers Have Plans For Historic Moulin Rouge Site

May 30, 2018

A company that’s under contract to buy the property where Las Vegas’ first racially integrated casino once stood wants to build a Moulin Rouge revival on the site.

Tweet Share on Facebook Email
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Incoming Councilman Cedric Crear Focuses On Jobs

Apr 13, 2018

The City of Las Vegas held a special election March 27 to replace Ricki Barlow.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Las Vegas' Westside Began As Townsite On Other Side Of Tracks

Feb 16, 2018

The roots of the Las Vegas Westside — the historically black neighborhood near downtown — predate the city’s 1905 founding.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Moulin Rouge: Past, Present, Future

Aug 19, 2016

Sixty years after it closed, there are new offers to buy and restore the historic property. Is the timing finally right? 

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Vegas Roots Garden Launches A Farmers Market Food Truck

Jul 07, 2016

Six years ago, Roz Brooks started a garden.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Former Westside Guest House Lands on the National Registry of Historic Places

May 17, 2016

In the 1950’s and 60s, an African-American woman from Texas named Genevieve Harrison ran a little guest house on the Westside of Las Vegas.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

John Edmond: From Baccarat To Business

Feb 24, 2016

John Edmond was 21 years old when he first saw a game of baccarat. There was something about the high-class style, he said, that drew him in.

  • Listen Download
KNPR
KNPR's State of Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook Email

Green Light: Construction Begins On F-Street Tunnel

May 06, 2013
In 2008, the Nevada Department of Transportation and City of Las Vegas closed F Street at the I-15, blocking access to Symphony Park for residents of the Historic Westside. The neighborhood fought back against the closure, and the legislature passed a bill requiring the city to reopen the street.
  • Listen Download
  • home
  • How to reach us
  • About
  • Support
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • NVPR News
  • Instagram

© All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy

PRXNPRAPMBBC INN