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Zinke chartered oil exec’s plane for Las Vegas-Montana flight

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.

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Residents coached on preparing for Nevada-style natural disasters

Texas residents knew for days that Hurricane Harvey was coming. But for Nevadans, who call the third-most seismically active state in the country home, a mobile-phone warning would come just minutes before a major earthquake.

 
Lake Mead skirts shortage for another year

According to projections released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the reservoir east of Las Vegas will have enough water in it on Jan. 1 to stave off a first-ever federal shortage declaration.

Cortez Masto talks health care at UMC in Las Vegas

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto spoke at a news conference Friday at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas to highlight a new report by the Nevada Institute for Children’s Research & Policy.

DREAMer from valley will deliver Democrats’ Spanish-language response to Trump’s address to Congress

Calling hometown DREAMer Astrid Silva someone who “embodies the exact principles on which our country was founded,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that Silva would deliver the Democrats’ Spanish-language response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress next week.