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Jeff Williams, mayor of a tiny town south of Las Vegas, battles economic and medical struggles with the same upbeat vigor.

After a life in Nevada politics, former GOP kingmaker Marilyn Gubler now runs a desert ranch, where there’s no question who sits in the big saddle.

Wisecracking philanthropist Bob Ellis and wife Sandy open their hearts for Nevada’s underserved kids and schools.

The reaping isn’t so grim at Bryan and Dusty Schoening’s Coffinwood, where the custom coffins, hearses, and other deathly touches are really about being more alive.

Nashville transplant Megan Rüger finds Las Vegas the ideal place the chase her rock ’n’ roll fantasy.

Departing director Jaina Moan saw Friends of Gold Butte through its best times — and its worst.

Danny Tarkanian keeps running — even though he keeps losing. Why? On the occasion of his fifth time on the ballot, notes on a perennial candidate saddled with a dynasty to live up to.

Cabbie Andrew Gnatovich became well-known for his tweets about life on the Vegas streets, but October 1 pushed him to his character limit.

Death Valley park officials consider wild burros a scourge. To activists like Diana Chontos, the misunderstood creatures embody the soul of the West.

There’s more to a marathon than running — Porta-Potties, for instance. That’s where race organizer Joyce Forier comes in.