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UPDATE: The press conference is available by going here. *** Gov. Steve Sisolak on Tuesday ordered a sweeping shutdown of nonessential businesses, including casinos and retail stores, for 30 days, a move that would have been unthinkable weeks ago before the novel coronavirus wreaked its havoc around the world.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, at one point during Wednesday’s raucous presidential debate on the Las Vegas Strip, suggested her opponents take their sparring down to the MGM Grand for fight night. It was an apt comparison.

The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority has advised the company that leases the hangar where President Donald Trump had planned to hold a campaign rally on Saturday that the event is in violation of a state directive limiting gatherings to 50 people and that it cannot proceed.

For the past few years, Las Vegas elementary school teacher Kristan Nigro said she has dealt with extreme, and at times violent, student behavior. In one incident, a student acted out, trashed her classroom and hit a classmate in the face with a book. That same student later threw a pair of scissors at her and just missed her face.

Local writer/educator Erica Vital-Lazare and photojournalist Jeff Scheid are the artists behind the profiles and portraits.

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Former President Barack Obama said the way to protect democracy is to elect Democrats during his rally Nov. 1, 2022, at Cheyenne High School in Las Vegas.

The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River. Its the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the once-massive but shrinking reservoirs behind them.

John Schwarz witnessed the battles of World War II firsthand as a combat photographer. More than 75 years later, what he captured is on display at the American Legion Post in Terry.

The work of a former World War II photographer that changed the way photography was taken during war is on display.