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Miss Behave's wild variety show finds home, success in downtown Las Vegas bar

May 06, 2022

And now, for something completely different.

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Motorcyclist deaths increased 32% from 2020 to last year in Nevada

May 06, 2022

It’s been months since the state reported that in 2021, traffic deaths were the worst they’d been since 2006.

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Las Vegas music teacher awarded prestigious Milken Educator Award

May 05, 2022

A school assembly turned into the ultimate Teacher Appreciation Day for a teacher at Beverly Mathis Elementary School in Las Vegas on Tuesday. 

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New app designed to help homeless students now active in Nevada

May 05, 2022

Most people would be willing to help as long as they knew their help was actually making a difference.

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To refine water forecasts, Western cities map snow by plane

May 05, 2022

At a tiny airport surrounded by mountains, a three-person crew takes off for the inaugural flight above the headwaters of the Colorado River to measure the region’s snow by air.

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Millions celebrate Cinco de Mayo today, but don't confuse it with Mexican Independence Day

May 05, 2022

In bars, casinos and restaurants throughout Nevada, Cinco De Mayo will be celebrated with margaritas and mariachi hats.

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Clark County has until July 1 to figure out how to regulate short-term rentals

May 05, 2022

Whether you like it or not, short-term rentals are coming back to unincorporated Clark County.

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Federal government rolls out ‘extraordinary actions’ to prop up Lake Powell

May 04, 2022

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced two measures today to boost water levels in Lake Powell, keeping them high enough to continue generating hydropower at the Glen Canyon Dam. 

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Abortion rights activists hold rally in downtown Las Vegas

May 04, 2022

Abortion rights advocates held a rally outside of the Foley Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas.

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Councilwoman-state treasurer hopeful hurt in Las Vegas car crash

May 04, 2022

A Las Vegas City Council member who is running as a Republican for Nevada state treasurer was recovering Tuesday from face and head injuries after she was injured in a car crash.

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'May the Fourth be with you': Fans across Las Vegas celebrate Star Wars Day

May 04, 2022

It’s May the Fourth, a day when Star Wars fans proudly proclaim, “May the 4th be with you!”

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Las Vegas artist brings unique perspective to new podcast on city's past

May 04, 2022

Brent Holmes brings his unique perspective to the history of Las Vegas in a new podcast.

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Washoe County School District's new superintendent to start this summer

May 04, 2022

Washoe County School District will get a new superintendent over the summer

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Cops: Body in barrel in Lake Mead was man who had been shot

May 03, 2022

The body found inside a barrel on the newly exposed bottom of Lake Mead after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought is that of a man who was shot, police said Tuesday.

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John L. Smith on abortion and status of upcoming Nevada election

May 11, 2022

At least for now, it won’t affect Nevada, where it is the legal right of a woman to have an abortion.

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Palms reopens as first tribal owned, operated casino-hotel in Las Vegas

May 03, 2022

The Palms is back. Again.

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Here's what the SCOTUS draft opinion means for Nevada, where abortion is legal

May 10, 2022

People quickly gathered to protest a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

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Congress is on the clock as Mountain West states push for permanent daylight saving time

May 02, 2022

Some Mountain West states – like Colorado, Utah and Wyoming – have endorsed permanent daylight saving time. But there’s a catch. States generally say that Congress has to approve it first. And they require that a handful of other states in the Mountain time zone join them.

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Several groups march down Las Vegas Strip on Sunday for May Day

May 02, 2022

May 1 was May Day, also known as International Day of the Worker

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Flocks of sheep help reduce wildfire risks in Northern Nevada

May 02, 2022

With the bulk of wildfire season on the horizon, officials in the Mountain West region are working to minimize risks. And sometimes they’re getting help from four-legged friends.

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Barrel containing human remains discovered in Lake Mead

May 02, 2022

Authorities say a barrel carrying human remains has been discovered in Lake Mead.

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Big US energy transmission projects in West, including Nevada, inch closer to approval

May 02, 2022

The federal government has finished another environmental review of a proposed transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from rural New Mexico to big cities in the West and similar reviews are planned for two more projects that would span parts of Utah and Nevada, the U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday.

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Man sentenced for shooting Vegas officer amid 2020 protest

May 02, 2022

A 21-year-old man who shot and paralyzed a Las Vegas police officer during a racial justice protest on the Las Vegas Strip in June 2020 was sentenced Friday to 20 to 50 years in state prison.

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Las Vegas water intake now visible at drought-stricken Lake Mead

May 02, 2022

A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead where other states downstream don’t have access.

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‘March Madness’ atmosphere lifts Las Vegas economy from pandemic

May 02, 2022

Nevada casinos reported near-record March house winnings, while the airport in Las Vegas reported passenger traffic almost as heavy as pre-pandemic levels and tourism officials marked another big j

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