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Like many communities in the American Southwest, Las Vegas is facing a prolonged drought that is forcing policy leaders ...
06/06/2026

Like many communities in the American Southwest, Las Vegas is facing a prolonged drought that is forcing policy leaders to make tough decisions about how best to mitigate the declining water supply.

In 2021, state lawmakers passed a measure that ostensibly banned all irrigation of so-called “non-functional turf.” The law officially goes into effect next January, but the Southern Nevada Water Authority has already begun working to replace that grass with more drought-tolerant landscaping, mostly through rebates for customers who choose to re-landscape.

A lawsuit is now challenging the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s grass removal program in federal court. The suit claims that the program's enforcement is overzealous and is potentially causing environmental harm.

✍️ Paul Boger | Nevada Public Radio
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The nearly 400,000 food insecure people living in Southern Nevada are getting a lifeline this week — as they have every ...
06/05/2026

The nearly 400,000 food insecure people living in Southern Nevada are getting a lifeline this week — as they have every spring for 19 years — from those who love to eat out. Three Square Food Bank, Nevada's largest hunger-relief operation, is holding its annual Restaurant Week, June 1-12.

The valley-wide dining event recruits more than 300 eateries to craft and promote special prix fixe menus. When diners select these exclusive three-course meals, up to $6 from each meal goes to Three Square, which turns that money into supplies for food banks. Restaurant Week does so well — more than 10 million donated meals have sprung from previous events — that restaurants often extend the availability of the prix fixe menus by a week or two.

Meeting the needs of food insecure people has grown more important in the wake of cost-of-living increases — especially in the grocery store — and the reduction of federal funds for the poor. The Trump administration also instituted work requirements for adults receiving SNAP benefits.

Three Square has felt the impact of those economic and policy developments. "We've seen more people who need food assistance," said Beth Martino, president and CEO of Three Square. "There's been a threat of fear through the community that we serve that the [federal] programs are now difficult to access, that the requirements are confusing, that there are maybe potential penalties or things that they might need to be fearful of, for applying for those programs. So all that has led to more people coming out to the food pantries and programs that we work with, which means we need more food on our shelves to meet that need."

✍️ Mike Prevatt | Nevada Public Radio
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A suspect in a Nevada cold murder case is finally in custody. The Washoe County Sheriff’s office said June 3 that a susp...
06/05/2026

A suspect in a Nevada cold murder case is finally in custody. The Washoe County Sheriff’s office said June 3 that a suspect had been detained and is facing charges in a prominent Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives case.

For more than four years, local and federal agencies have worked to resolve the case of Anna Marie Scott, a mother and enrolled member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe. That appears to have happened with this week’s arrest of a suspect.

Scott’s body was discovered along Interstate 580, between Carson City and Reno, in February of 2022. Since then, her loved ones have felt the impact of her death.

“No court proceeding, arrest or conviction can erase the pain, sorrow, and profound emptiness left by Anna’s loss," Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said at a press conference. "Nothing can restore the years her loved ones spent grieving, nor fill the void created by her absence."

The sheriff said Delshay Astor, an enrolled member of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, had been indicted on federal charges in relation to the Scott case.

✍️ Jimmy Romo | Nevada Public Radio
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New data shows heat-related deaths were down last year. But some populations remain at high risk, especially ahead of wh...
06/05/2026

New data shows heat-related deaths were down last year. But some populations remain at high risk, especially ahead of what could be a hot, dry summer.

Last year, heat was a contributing factor in 1,837 deaths across the country, according to provisional federal data. But those numbers are down from roughly 2,400 deaths in each of the prior two years. Rob Bhatt, an insurance expert with the financial group, Lending Tree, analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

People older than 85, and Indigenous people have the highest heat-related death rates.

“If you are in one of these groups that has higher rates of death from heat exposure, then it's even more important to take even mild symptoms seriously and treat them before they turn into something more serious,” Bhatt said.

This also means that with the anticipation of hotter heat waves, municipalities need to institute more safety measures.

“So, this is something that we need, resources like cooling centers and other facilities to give people some relief when these heat waves break out,” said Bhatt.

Southwest communities are also trying to push beyond simply opening cooling centers. This spring, officials from Arizona and Nevada, states with the highest number of heat-related deaths in the country, participated in a Heat Summit to discuss ways their communities can improve heat response efforts. Heat is not officially recognized as a disaster and therefore communities cannot receive disaster relief funds for heat mitigation efforts.

✍️ Yvette Fernandez | Mountain West News Bureau
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There’s no shortage of what to see, hear, and do at any time in Nevada — especially in our libraries! Here are some high...
06/04/2026

There’s no shortage of what to see, hear, and do at any time in Nevada — especially in our libraries! Here are some highlighted cultural events for the week starting June 3, located in Las Vegas Clark County Library District branches.

😂 Be Proud & Laugh Out Loud at Windmill Library - Celebrate Pride Month with a night of laughter. Join co-headliners Steven Roberts and Jozalyn Sharp, along with some friends, for this hilarious night of stand-up comedy. This show contains mature content. Parental guidance is advised. Free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served any may be limited.

🎵 Pride NOW! at West Charleston Library - celebrates Pride Month with this flashback to the old compilation CDs from the 1990s and early 2000's. This show is designed to be a tribute to all types of Pride icons and artists, done with a personal flair. Presented by Vegas City Opera, Pride NOW! will feature a variety of musical styles from all-time favorite gay artists and allies.

💃 Svetlana Tulasi Dance Co. Presents Kathak Bollywood Dance at Sahara West Library - Rooted in an Indian classical dance style called Kathak, which means storytelling. The performance will showcase a lecture-demonstration by the dancers first performing traditional Jaipur Gharana, or School, of Kathak, followed by a Kathak Fusion/Classical Bollywood dance performance.

✍️ Mike Prevatt
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The Vegas Strong Fund has raised $27 million for the Forever One Memorial. This announcement comes just a couple of days...
06/04/2026

The Vegas Strong Fund has raised $27 million for the Forever One Memorial. This announcement comes just a couple of days after Tennille Pereira was named the new executive director of the organization.

The memorial will honor the lives impacted by the Route 91 Harvest Festival tragedy on Oct. 1, 2017. It will be located on the festival's former grounds, spanning 2 acres of the Las Vegas Strip.

The nonprofit Vegas Strong Fund, created to provide relief and support, has played a critical role in fundraising for the monument.

They have raised nearly 80% of the project’s $34 million budget. Clark County, Live Nation Entertainment, MGM Resorts International and others have contributed donations so far.

“It is a very, very exciting milestone for us to reach. It's basically telling the impacted community that we're going to do what we promise to do, and we have the money to do so,” the organization's new executive, Tennille Pereira, said. She emphasizes a key goal of the fund is to open the memorial by the tragedy's 10th remembrance in 2027.

Pereira previously directed the Resiliency & Justice Center and chaired the One October Memorial Committee. Now, she’s responsible for all aspects of the memorial from fundraising and construction to community outreach.

Seven million dollars is still needed to fund the Forever One Memorial, which is on track to break ground this fall.

✍️ Rafaela Gandolfo
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We keep replaying the performances from the cast of Opera Las Vegas’ Pagliacci in our heads, and now you can experience ...
06/04/2026

We keep replaying the performances from the cast of Opera Las Vegas’ Pagliacci in our heads, and now you can experience them anytime on our YouTube channel!

🔗 Watch: https://tinyurl.com/y5u6tp97

You can see Opera Las Vegas’ full production of Pagliacci on June 5 and June 7 at UNLV’s Judy Bayley Theatre. Tickets are available at operalasvegas.com

Nevada’s Democratic U.S. senators, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, are calling on the Trump administration to wi...
06/03/2026

Nevada’s Democratic U.S. senators, Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, are calling on the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed rule on international travel. The rule would require visitors to disclose up to five years of social media history before coming to the U.S.

In a letter on June 2 to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Rosen, Cortez Masto, and a handful of other Senate Democrats said the policies are already leading to declining tourism rates. That comes at a time when the country should be working to attract more guests ahead of international events. The U.S. will host the World Cup later this year, and Los Angeles will host the Olympics in 2028.

The letter also asks the departments to explain what social media factors are being considered when determining a traveler’s admissibility. The Department of Homeland Security proposed the rule change late last year, but it’s unclear when the administration plans to implement it fully.

The latest numbers from the Clark County Department of Aviation show international travel is down. In 2025, more than 1.2 million international passengers passed through Harry Reid International Airport. That’s down nearly 15% through, to a little more than 1 million as of April of this year.

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Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state's biggest c...
06/03/2026

Even as California is offering to take less water from the drought-shrunken Colorado River, one of the state's biggest cities that's long been the most dependent on it curiously now has excess water to sell.

In a good year, San Diego gets barely 8 inches of rain. And not too long ago, the picturesque coastal city was staring down major water supply shortages. It's notoriously at the end of the line of the Colorado River "straw," a good three-hour drive from the shrinking river itself. But today, thanks in part to aggressive water recycling and urban and agricultural conservation programs and a big bet made on salt water, San Diego has a surplus and other thirsty nearby cities and states are eager to tap it.

"I don't think we can save the Colorado River, but what we're looking to do is show that there is an opportunity to manage the system in a new way," says Meena Westford, director of imported water at the San Diego County Water Authority.

No one is talking about building a pipeline from here to Arizona or trucking the extra desalinated water to Las Vegas. Westford says to think of it more like a transfer on paper. If approved by the Department of the Interior, the authority would exchange its existing Colorado River supplies stored in Lake Mead for desalinated water.

✍️ Kirk Siegler | NPR
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Tomas Hertl joined the Vegas Golden Knights in a trade in March 2024 when they were defending champions, fortifying a gr...
06/03/2026

Tomas Hertl joined the Vegas Golden Knights in a trade in March 2024 when they were defending champions, fortifying a group that had just won the Stanley Cup and expected to contend perennially with an elite forward in his prime.

He had just one point in the playoffs that spring, a first-round exit, then just five last year in a second-round loss. It was “here we go again” when Hertl languished in the final 20 games of the regular season without a goal, a stretch that reached 29 before he ended it against Anaheim on May 10.

That two-month drought now feels like ancient history, especially after Hertl was the hero in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday night, scoring the go-ahead goal with under four minutes left to beat Carolina and take the lead in the series. It's his second winning goal in three games, and the scoring touch is back at just the right time for the Golden Knights.

“I haven’t coached him for long, and a lot of those games weren’t that good,” coach John Tortorella said. “I think he’s grown. He never stopped working. I thought there were some major struggles in his game, but he never stopped working at his game. It’s just great timing, just to try to balance our lineup. He has given us some very important minutes.”

Hertl will be counted on for more of those big minutes in Game 2 at the Hurricanes on Thursday night and beyond in the final. As one of the Vegas players who has not hoisted the Cup, he was certainly feeling the pressure when the puck wasn't going in the net earlier this postseason and his ice time got reduced as a result.

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