Tribal leaders moved into the 2020 general election campaign season with the same goal held by other organizers — to achieve high voter turnout and elevate the voices and concerns of their fellow community members.

While campaign season during a presidential election year is typically loud and full of energy in urban areas of the state — voter registration drives and events, local candidate forums, national candidate rallies, canvassing and phone banking — eligible Native voters living on reservations in rural Nevada hear crickets.

Historically the nation's largest racial minority group of eligible voters, Black voters are expected to make up the third largest share of the electorate after being surpassed by Hispanic voters. They have had the second highest rates of voter turnout among all racial and ethnic groups and have been a strong and consistent voting bloc for the Democratic Party.

Rossy Mueller Rosales, a longtime Reno resident originally from Nicaragua, said she fondly remembers the last time she saw her older brother — the smell of carne asada and the sound of music filled her Reno backyard as they barbecued and he played the guitar on a warm and sunny May day in 2019.

Latino voters have become increasingly sought after by campaigns vying to capture a community that represents almost 20 percent of Nevada’s eligible voting population. Latino voters were instrumental in helping catapult Sen. Bernie Sanders to victory in the Silver State’s Democratic caucuses earlier this year and propelling a blue wave in the state’s 2018 elections.

Nevada had the fifth highest growth rate of women-owned businesses in the country in 2019. Nationally, the same year, 50 percent of female-owned businesses were owned by women of color. But with COVID-19 causing widespread shutdowns and a subsequent economic downturn, those women of color have been hit hardest, with much higher rates of joblessness than the national average. It’s prompted both public entities and private companies to take a hard look at how they can help female business owners and their employees overcome the barriers posed by the pandemic.

Trump's COVID diagnosis — which garnered mixed reactions from death wishes to "get well soon" sentiments on social media — did not affect many attendees' opinion of him. It even elevated the president in the eyes of some supporters, who praised him for working throughout the illness and argued that the experience will improve his ability to help Americans during the pandemic.

Clark County and the United Way of Southern Nevada (UWSN) are offering tuition assistance of up to $100 a week for families who have experienced financial hardship during the pandemic and need child care while the school district is in full-time distance learning.

Churches that hold 2,500 people or less are allowed to convene 250 people or 50 percent of their capacity, whichever is less — a setup that means many churches are still well under the attendance levels they normally have.

A bill signed into law this week allows the state to extend — for as long as a year at a time — waivers that make it easier for Nevadans to access additional food benefits.

The two largest school districts in Nevada are providing free meals to all children as of Tuesday, regardless of enrollment or eligibility for the free and reduced price meals program, and parents who have already paid will be getting that money back.

Eduardo Moreno and his partner are also among the mixed immigration status families who have been excluded from federal and state aid packages meant to lessen the economic blow caused by COVID-19. Moreno is undocumented and his partner and their children are American citizens.

A new report released Wednesday by Make the Road Nevada, an immigrant advocacy group, and The Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive organization, highlights challenges faced by communities of color, particularly the estimated 7 percent of Nevadans who are undocumented and have been excluded from federal and state relief efforts during the pandemic.

More than half of the state’s counties have not hit response rates from 2010 with just over a week remaining to complete those counts. Local leaders across the state have been implementing programs that help them engage in the community in order to encourage participation in the census and educate residents about what the purpose of the census is.

In recent weeks, health officials throughout the state and country have posited that bar reopenings might increase the number of coronavirus cases, but bar owners remain optimistic about the public’s ability to follow guidelines and argue that allowing restaurants and casinos to remain open while singling out bars for closure is inconsistent and hypocritical.

Cars and trucks plastered with Make America Great Again stickers and proudly flying American flags filled dirt lots in both Northern and Southern Nevada, overflowing into surrounding neighborhoods and even parking along highways and streets. From the parking lots, the campaign shuttled rally-goers to the venues where they heard from leaders of the Nevada Republican Party and, eventually, the president himself.

The region’s primary food bank cut the ribbon Thursday on a new east campus site located in North Las Vegas. In addition to housing the organization’s call center and government affairs department, the site’s 14,000 square foot warehouse will allow the organization to expand programs that are facing growing demand, including senior hunger programs that will now have the capacity to serve up to 20,000 older adults in Southern Nevada.

Personal care aides for older Nevadans and people with disabilities are in higher demand because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new report warns of a possible “care gap” if wages below the cost of living and limited benefits prevent the workforce from expanding to meet the need.

The library director's proposed diversity statement launched the library into a controversy highlighting the tension that exists when a library's role as an inclusive marketplace of ideas clashes with members of the community that funds it.