Across the nation, the number of workers classified as independent contractors or freelancers has been increasing since the 1990s, according to analysis from the Brookings Institution. In areas like transportation and hotels, that growth has been recently intensified by “gig economy” companies such as Uber, Lyft and Airbnb.

Trump’s ventures have long fueled business, controversy in Nevada

Voters frustrated with the choices for president in the Nov. 8 election have a unique option in Nevada to register their displeasure with politicians.

The hundreds of Hillary Clinton supporters from the Bay Area streaming Saturday into the Biggest Little City in the World got some simple advice about knocking on doors in this important swing state: Ask for people by their first names, don’t get in anybody’s face, and — most importantly — avoid talking about the, uh, October surprise.

It’s been 30 years since Marc Reisner’s landmark history of Western water, Cadillac Desert, was first published. The book’s dire tone set the pattern for much subsequent water writing. Longtime Albuquerque Journal reporter John Fleck calls it the “narrative of crisis” — an apocalyptic storyline about the West perpetually teetering on the brink of running dry.

A Mob Museum town hall discussion on Question 1, the ballot initiative proposing to expand firearm background checks to private-party sales and transfers, brought passionate arguments on the issue to voters Thursday night.

The eyes of the nation and of the world will turn to Las Vegas and the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this evening for the final presidential debate of the 2016 election.

Roger Edwards was having a tough time selling his Republican Senate candidate last week. Ever since Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV), a wiry, 54-year-old Army brigadier general, disavowed Donald Trump at a Las Vegas rally earlier this month, the phones at the Washoe County Republican headquarters in Reno have been ringing off the hook. Trump voters – including Edwards, the chairman of the local GOP there–are irate.