From voting to car seat rule changes, new Nevada laws take effect Jan. 1
With the new year comes, yet again, another new set of laws on the books. More than 55 bills enacted by the Legislature in 2021 take...
He Tore Down Motels Where Poor Residents Lived During a Housing Crisis. City Leaders Did Nothing.
For most of his life, Ernest Block has managed to stay one step ahead of homelessness. When he was 9, his parents scrambled to find...
Advocates fear thousands are unaware of child tax credit eligibility
For Frankie Perez, an Air Force veteran and foster parent to five of his nieces and nephews, the recently expanded federal child tax credit allowed him to...
Local resources can help children who lost a parent due to COVID-19
A recent study published by the Pediatric Journal revealed that children are losing parents due to COVID-19 at an alarming rate. The journal discovered that...
Latino Nevadans keep Día de los Muertos celebrations alive in their communities
Flowers were blooming on a recent Saturday inside Winchester Dondero Cultural Center as sisters Ana Martinez and Joyce Mayorquin snipped and folded colorful pieces of...
Effort to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day advances in one rural county, stalls in another
For the first time, Mineral County today is celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a significant move for a county in rural Nevada, where Native communities still...
Want to go leaf peeping? Explore our favorite places near Reno and Tahoe
If you felt like summer passed you in a blur of smoke and haze, you didn’t imagine it —autumn is already well underway. Temperatures are falling at night...
Reno Latinos mourn, celebrate long-time Spanish-speaking radio DJ ‘El Compa Lalo’
On Valentine’s Day in 1997, Julie Kent Rios went on a first date with the man she would marry six months later. Their connection was...
The story behind the photo taken by the first Honduran to win a Pulitzer Prize
Marcio Sanchez never expected to wear an armored vest while covering a protest in the U.S. He always thought that kind of equipment was reserved...
Ideas to improve mental health in kids
Throughout the past year, the coronavirus has changed and disrupted the daily lives of children. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the rise of fire danger...