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This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) participated in Transportation Day at the Nevada Legislature this week and addressed the State Senate and Assembly Growth and Infrastructure Committees in ...

Meowtel analyzed data from Shelter Animals Count's intake database to see how the share of cat surrenders changed in each ...

The state has used just over half of its $2.7 billion of pandemic-era federal stimulus funds. Democratic lawmakers said the remaining money’s future is “clear as mud.” ...

The governor’s staff said multiple amendments cut out such duplicate funding, explored funding reversions and made other ...

The Nevada Department of Education (NDE) said the latest results from Nevada students in a nationwide assessment report card ...

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

The Great Salt Lake appears to have been a big draw last year, too. Antelope Island — always a crowd-pleaser — leaped past ...

That was its fastest rate of population growth since July 2019 (1.7%), just before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to census data. However, it was still below the population boom Nevada saw from ...

While the virus hasn’t made a sustained leap into humans, vaccines and treatments are being developed ahead of an outbreak.

Funds distributed to school districts were intended to spur academic recovery, teacher effectiveness and classroom supports schools needed after closures and long-term operational changes.