US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is urging air travellers to dress better and be more civil - and it's touching a nerve at a time when many Americans consider air travel more frustrating than ever.

Around Thanksgiving, many family cooks are thinking about turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce — or perhaps, for our devoted NPR fans, the late Susan Stamberg’s famous cranberry relish. But not everyone.

More than 60 people have died on Las Vegas valley roads while in or crossing streets, leading road safety advocates to once again sound the alarm.

Officers across the Las Vegas valley handed out the kind of holiday “stuffing” no driver wants. Police used a giant turkey mascot to enforce crosswalk laws. The operation took place near 4622 West Desert Inn Road, just east of Decatur Boulevard outside James Cashman Middle School. Officers from CCSD Police, LVMPD Traffic, North Las Vegas Police, Henderson Police, and UNLV Police took part in the effort. In just a few hours, officers conducted 145 traffic stops and issued 109 citations to drivers who failed to yield to the oversized turkey in the crosswalk. One vehicle was also towed.

Apparently nostalgic for the Champagne, pillbox hats and soft-lit glamour that characterized the skies in the 1950s and ’60s, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy urged airline passengers to dress nicely and mind their manners ahead of the year’s busiest travel week.

The defense attorney for the teenager accused of causing a 12-car crash that killed two people, including his pregnant girlfriend, argues his client suffered a seizure before the wreck.

A new report from economists at UNLV released at its annual conference suggests while no recession is expected in the near term, the economic climate in Southern Nevada shows signs of trouble but has the ability to stabilize in the coming months.

The Clark County School District is actively addressing the shortage of special education teachers, which began the school year with 163 vacancies. The district is partnering with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to develop a program that will place educators in special education classrooms starting next fall.

According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in August 2025, the national unemployment rate for the United States was 4.3%. While 22,000 new jobs were added in August, led by job gains in the healthcare industry, this did little to offset those who lost work in career fields related to oil, gas, and mining, as well as the mass layoff of federal employees.