The search for a new Desert Research Institute president is nearing its end, as two finalists were named Saturday. The candidates — Kristen Averyt, associate director for Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Philip Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute — will visit the DRI campuses in Las Vegas and Reno from Thursday to Jan. 24.
Zion National Park’s Scenic Drive is closed until further notice after sliding rock and debris blocked the road Friday night.
SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket for the first time since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago.
Southern Nevada taxicab companies had a rough 2016 marked by plummeting revenue and ridership, according to year-end figures released Friday.
