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No funding for marijuana education, but public health officials try anyway
After decades of battling secondhand tobacco smoke, the Washoe County Health District has a new public health challenge and no funds with which to...
Marijuana is legal in Nevada, but illegal market is still huge,...
Southern Nevada law enforcement announced in April that they’d made their largest indoor marijuana grow operation bust ever: 5,700 individual plants, weighing more than...
Academic slide hitting students of color hardest, new CCSD data shows
Students of color are seeing a disproportionately negative impact on their academic grades as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and school closures, according...
‘Food pod’ proposal may be derailed by LV City Council
The concept seemed tailor-made for the pandemic: give out-of-work caterers and cooks who lack the capital required for a brick and mortar eatery a...
Sheldon Adelson dies at 87
Sheldon Adelson, the resort industry tycoon and Republican Party megadonor, has died at 87 "from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma," according to...
‘Millions of birds will die’: Last-minute Trump rule aids industry
In July 2011, a pipeline owned by ExxonMobil burst near Laurel, Montana, dumping 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the nearby Yellowstone River.As federal...
Latino business owners hope for better results from new PPP round
Simon Lopez was attending networking events and bringing in new clients to his production company A&G Studio this time last year. Now, like countless...
Wear your seat belt
Nevada’s traffic safety laws are lagging behind the rest of the country, according to a new report from a national traffic safety advocacy group.It’s...
Councilwoman hopes to make pandemic ‘microschool’ program permanent
A public-private partnership launched to offer parents an alternative to Clark County School District’s virtual learning format may stick around even after the district...
Nevada’s House Democrats join calls for Trump to go
A rapidly rising number of federal lawmakers are calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office, either through a process outlined in...
Congratulations, Nevada GOP ‘leaders.’ It’s folks like you who built this.
Adam Laxalt and the Nevada Republican Party may have failed in their multiple scatter-brained evidence-free efforts to make Donald Trump the winner of the...
Shot in the arm? 1 in 4 COVID vaccines administered in...
Nevada is slightly lagging the U.S. in administering the COVID-19 vaccine, but not alone when it comes to economically ravaged states struggling to regain...