“We really are more than human. They’re on us; they’re in us; they’re everywhere.” My body, Brian Hedlund casually tells me, has 10 times more microbial cells than human, around 100 trillion. So much for hand sanitizer.

It’s not going to create a Higgs Boson particle, but Gov. Brian Sandoval’s twin desires to not raise taxes and diversify the economy might be colliding.

The economies in Metropolitan areas in the Mountain West region are recovering at a good pace but unemployment still remains high in Las Vegas and across the entire state of Nevada. That's according to a new report from Brookings Mountain West at UNLV. Is Nevada keeping up with the region? And what needs to be done to keep pace with our neighbors in places like Arizona, Colorado and Utah?