KNPR's State of Nevada
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KNPR's State of Nevada is the essential public affairs broadcast to understand what's happening here. Newsmakers and experts give context to local issues; interviews explore the unique character — and characters — of our region. KNPR's State of Nevada is a daily conversation about this place we call home.
Latest Episodes
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Today, maybe more than any time in recent memory, the arts are taking center stage because of potential cuts to funding throughout the country, including Nevada. -
Great Basin National Park, Lake Mead and Red Rock Canyon are all overseen by the National Park Service. -
Last week, Nevada lawmakers got their first look at a bill meant to draw film production studios to Las Vegas. -
Congestion on the Las Vegas Strip grows more intense as more and more people visit Las Vegas — almost 42 million last year. -
Arts and entertainment generates more than $15 billion in annual spending in Nevada. But during the pandemic and other downturns, that industry — both on and off the Strip — gets hit as hard. -
The Clark County School Board has whittled down candidates for superintendent of the country’s fifth-largest school district to three people. -
Mars has fascinated humanity since Galileo Galilei accurately observed it more than 400 years ago. Now we’re getting to the point of trying to land spaceships on the planet. -
The taxes we all pay for entertainment, gas, cars, property and so much more are starting to make people think, and not just because we have two months to file tax returns. -
Twenty-five years ago, Clark County had a population of 1.4 million but no medical school. The lone medical school was in Washoe County, which had four times fewer people. But today, four schools in Southern Nevada offer medical doctorates. -
Nevada’s four national monuments cover 1.5 million acres. They are Tule Springs Fossil Beds, Avi Kwa Ame, Gold Butte and Basin and Range.
