Welborn said her work experience has shown how issues, such as children’s behavioral and mental health issues and housing stability, the minimum wage, or providing meals for kids, are interconnected with early childhood and juvenile justice.

Jodi Hocking, founder of the nonprofit inmate advocacy group Return Strong, helped present a bill that would create an Office of the Ombudsman — impartial and independent of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) — that would manage grievances filed by prisoners that adversely affect the health, safety, welfare and rights of those in custody. The office would be under the administration of the attorney general. 

“I've been on calls where a father cut his daughter's head off, and I still went back to work half an hour later,” said retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Capt. Harry Fagel during a panel discussion at the Mob Museum last Thursday night. He said police officers' ability to trust can become completely eroded.

Nevada lawmakers authorized medical marijuana dispensaries in 2013 through a deal that also put strict limitations on home growing, which patients such as Jordon Herring say contributes to a legal cannabis framework with major shortcomings, including high prices, contaminated products and a lack of medicinal resources.

Miranda, a mother of four, cares for her two younger children while building a party decoration business — a goal that's a work in progress thanks to a series of Spanish-language entrepreneurial classes.

The high-tech farm is expected to yield as much produce as is typical for 3.5 acres of land, or eight tons of produce per harvest, with the first harvest expected this month.

The bleachers were packed at an indoor soccer arena in Sparks last month where the Sierra Regional Roller Derby (SRRD) team hosted their first home bout since 2019 against the Faultline Derby Devilz.

Chaplain Clementina Chery said her son Louis D. Brown was driven everywhere he needed to go because of violence in their neighborhood. The first day he walked alone, he was shot and killed. 

Experts say expanding the number of medical residency training programs in rural areas is key to filling gaps in care because many doctors ... settle within 100 miles of where they train.

After finding scratches that resemble a swastika on her son’s back, a local mother and advocates are calling on the community to come forward with any information related to the incident.

Ice Age Fossils State Park in North Las Vegas is nearly complete, and the finish line is closer than ever thanks to a $3.5 million donation to the state from the Leona and Harry Helmsley Charitable Trust. 

If SB368 passes, homeowners could soon petition a judge to remove historic racist housing covenants from their housing documents that made it forbidden for people who are not white to live in certain communities or buy homes.

If passed, AB398, sponsored by the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, would allocate $22 million to Clark County on June 1 and then would repeat the next fiscal year. Clark County estimates 15 percent of the 50,000 households facing eviction this year would qualify for the programs.

Nevada was allocated $571 million in federal pandemic aid for child care purposes, but experts are unclear exactly how the money helped families and are calling for an audit of the Department of Health and Human Services.

During a closing address for a conference celebrating the life and work of Basque-Nevadan author Robert Laxalt, his grandson Gabriel Urza brought out a leather satchel containing notes from his grandfather’s reporting for National Geographic as well as an early manuscript of his book The Governor’s Mansion.

Advocates are concerned that the impending loss of some rental assistance programs will contribute to an eviction crisis, as rising rents outpace the growth of wages in the state, and because the state has tens of thousands fewer affordable housing units than it needs.

The explosion sent a shock wave through southern Nevada and left behind an atom-age mystery: What happened to the life-like mannequins used in the test?

Turner and Sanders said there are three parts to African American genealogy — history in Africa before enslavement, history in America following enslavement and DNA testing. A similar three-way approach can provide insight for groups such as some Afro-Latinos who were taken to the Caribbean from Africa during the slave trade.

“There’s just no comparing the scale of SNAP to the charitable food sector,” said Andrew Cheyne, who works at a nonprofit focused on reducing childhood hunger. “It’s simply not possible to make up that difference.”

With 2022’s underwhelming red wave in the rearview mirror, leaders at Americano, a new Spanish-language conservative news and commentary platform, are hoping to reach centrist or nonpartisan Latino voters.