Yvette Fernandez
Regional Reporter, Mountain West News BureauYvette Fernandez is the regional reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau. She joined Nevada Public Radio in September 2021.
Before joining, she worked as a reporter in Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Phoenix in both radio and television. She has won awards including a regional Emmy for spot news coverage, a national award for investigative reporting from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and several others.
Yvette has also been a consulting professor with C.A. Specialized Training Institute, teaching first responders and public information officers how to conduct various types of interviews and prepare for news conferences in emergencies
Yvette is bilingual in English and Spanish and jokes she learned French in Mexico, having attended a trilingual school there. She earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism at Arizona State University. Yvette enjoys spending time outdoors with her dog, Maya.
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Text messages that appear to be official messages are actually a scam, say officials -
“Come back to work.” That’s the message from the U.S. Forest Service’s new chief, Tom Schultz, to recently-retired workers. -
When the Weather Service issues a Heat Alert, local municipalities activate cooling centers. Activists say the response needs to be updated with longer and hotter extreme heat events. -
Climate change is driving more dangerous summer heat across the U.S. Las Vegas, which reached 120 degrees last summer, is planting thousands of trees to help cool its hottest neighborhoods. -
Southern Nevada is combating heat by planting more trees. -
The American Lung Association’s annual air quality report shows that some of the most polluted air is in the areas around Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, and Salt Lake City, but some of the cleanest is in the mountain areas in Wyoming, Colorado, St. George, Utah, and Prescott Valley, Ariz. -
A new study from Climate Central shows that Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah have had more than 20 extra high heat-risk days on average, and pregnant mothers without access to cooling could be more at risk. -
Four Mountain West states join preliminary injunction to stop Trump’s proposed election rule changesNevada Attorney General Aaron Ford cited “the rule of law” in a recent speech talking about how several states have taken legal action against changes they say would put unfair burdens on voters to prove citizenship or on how states count votes. -
Bird flu is spreading to dairy farms in the Mountain West, but it isn't a concern for the public yetBird flu is spreading to dairy farms in our region, according to federal officials tracking the virus. It has been found on poultry farms and its spread to cattle is a new concern, but experts say the outbreaks are not currently a concern for the general public. -
Over 300,000 visas were issued last year to foreign farmworkers – a fraction of what the agriculture industry needs for its labor force. That guest worker program is getting new scrutiny from labor and industry critics who have long wanted to overhaul it.
