Why planting more trees may not be the ‘silver bullet’ to combat extreme heat in Las Vegas. Read more from The Nevada ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee says selling off public lands will solve the West’s housing crisis. Past sales show otherwise. Read more ...

Global temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases. The ten ...

Truckers fear job loss over new English rules; Nevada groups’ language classes could help. Read more from The Nevada ...

Trump admin freezes after-school, English learner grants; $56M for Nevada on hold. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear. Read more from The ...

Nevada forestry division recovers millions in out-of-state firefighting costs. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

Vegas landed on Trump’s ‘sanctuary’ list. A day later, sheriff signed agreement with ICE. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

Bills with budget implications are tagged with a dreaded fiscal note and get referred to their own version of death row in the Senate Finance or Assembly Ways and Means committees. ... most will ...

In politics today, outrage has become our most devalued social currency. Like a nation printing money without restraint, our political system has made so many withdrawals from the bank of moral ...

Such an inhumane obsession over the raw number of arrests — rather than a calculated push to deport “the worst of the worst” — is the sort of directive one would expect from Joseph Stalin’s NKVD ...