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With the authorization that allows federal funds to flow to the Tahoe Basin set to expire next year, Nevada’s congressional delegation and Tahoe stakeholders are hopeful they can pass a re-authorization this year.

The Nevada Independent reporters and multimedia journalists are pleased to share their favorite stories, videos and audio reporting from the past calendar year.

Dejalyne Davis, a citizen of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and a member of the Pyramid Lake High School girl’s basketball team, was one of roughly a dozen speakers in a packed Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday testifying in support of a bill aimed at ensuring Indigenous people who go missing are included in missing person databases.

Between a global pandemic, protests over racial injustice and a highly contentious presidential election, firearm sales in Nevada spiked in 2020, with the first 10 months of gun sales already 57 percent greater than all gun sales made in 2019.

In this week's Indy Education newsletter, a look at Nevada's only Space Force JROTC program at Durango High School in Las Vegas. Plus, Storey County schools superintendent announces retirement.

Vassiliadis described Aguero’s work with state government as similar to a “monopoly” — but “not because someone else can't do it, because someone else hasn’t.”

Key city officials have declined interviews with The Nevada Independent, and a records request regarding city emails resulted in pages of redactions. The Indy is exploring its legal options.

Tensions over Gilbert’s costly fees have underpinned a broader wave of turmoil on the school board. Prior to hiring Gilbert, the board pursued and tabled a policy that would have blocked transgender students from certain locker rooms, bathrooms and sports teams.

How should development be managed? What about housing affordability? And what will be done to improve roads, conserve water and reduce homelessness? These are some of the questions facing candidates for the Carson City Board of Supervisors, the governing body that oversees everything in the capital city from local ordinances to sign design.

Words: Liz Rountree The ‘Garda of the South’ delivered with a picture-perfect sea breeze for Saturday’s Combined Clubs Long Race, hosted by the Bellerive