Amid a time of financial uncertainty, with on-again, off-again tariffs and even fears of a recession, some locals tell me they're paying attention to the trends but it's not stopping them from making big purchases.

Five years ago, Covid-19 drastically changed lives all over the world. The pandemic also presented unique challenges for Las Vegas. We discuss how Nevadans continue to be impacted in a special collaboration with KNPR’s State of Nevada. We then meet Libby Hausrath, a UNLV professor and lead researcher on a Mars project. She explains what samples being collected now may tell us about the Red Planet.

Five years ago, Covid-19 drastically changed lives all over the world. The pandemic also presented unique challenges for Las Vegas. We discuss how Nevadans continue to be impacted in a special collaboration with KNPR’s State of Nevada. We then meet Libby Hausrath, a UNLV professor and lead researcher on a Mars project. She explains what samples being collected now may tell us about the Red Planet.

Five years ago, Covid-19 drastically changed lives all over the world. The pandemic also presented unique challenges for Las Vegas. We discuss how Nevadans continue to be impacted in a special collaboration with KNPR’s State of Nevada. We then meet Libby Hausrath, a UNLV professor and lead researcher on a Mars project. She explains what samples being collected now may tell us about the Red Planet.

Five years ago, Covid-19 drastically changed lives all over the world. The pandemic also presented unique challenges for Las Vegas. We discuss how Nevadans continue to be impacted in a special collaboration with KNPR’s State of Nevada. We then meet Libby Hausrath, a UNLV professor and lead researcher on a Mars project. She explains what samples being collected now may tell us about the Red Planet.

I’m gonna talk at you for a minute about the National Endowment for the Arts. An independent government agency, the NEA fulfills grants for arts and culture schools and organizations nationwide, which includes those in Southern Nevada. In the past five years, it’s granted funds to A Source of Joy Theatricals (for Broadway in the HOOD); to Nevada Ballet Theatre (for new works by Krista Baker and Trey McIntyre); to the Nevada School of the Arts (for a chamber music program); to the Discovery Children’s Museum and the Neon Museum (for artist residencies); to UNLV (for a summer writer’s residency) and many more.

The World Health Organization characterized Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Since then, scientists don’t fully understand why some people develop disabling chronic conditions after the initial viral infection, according to reporting from NBC News.

Today, almost two years later, McSwain has become the de facto leader of a counter-movement, even registering as a lobbyist in the 2025 Nevada legislative session. Retired from running a utility construction company that she and her husband, Ed, founded, she’s well aware of the valley’s population boom. And UNLV projects that Clark County will add 698,000 residents by 2040.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict, now in its third year, continues to be a focal point of attention for the people of Taiwan. This is because, at the time of the Russian invasion, many were concerned that the Taiwan Strait was another geopolitical hot spot where war might erupt.