Nevada spent months in court arguing that a prediction market app was really just illegal sports betting wearing a different name. A federal appeals court agreed — but the ruling that could send this fight to the Supreme Court doesn’t end it in Nevada yet. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor… Continue reading A Federal Appeals Court Just Sided With Nevada Over Kalshi. The Fight Isn’t Over.

A record share of Nevada kindergartners started school this year without at least one required vaccine. Two local researchers say the reason has less to do with what parents believe and more to do with where they’re getting their information. Nevada recorded the fifth-highest kindergarten vaccine exemption rate in the country during the 2025-26 school… Continue reading Nevada Now Has the Fifth-Highest Kindergarten Vaccine Exemption Rate in the Country

Henderson officials seized 21 Sphynx cats from a local breeder this month after finding illnesses and physical deformities tied to how the animals were bred. One buyer says she watched her kitten collapse in front of her before officials ever got involved. A Henderson court awarded the City of Henderson custody of 21 Sphynx cats… Continue reading A Henderson Court Took 21 Cats From a Breeder. A Buyer Says Hers Almost Died First.

Henderson’s mayoral race isn’t settled. Michelle Romero led the June primary but fell just short of the majority needed to win outright under Nevada election law, and she now faces fired Police Chief Hollie Chadwick in a Nov. 3 runoff. Here’s what the record actually shows about the sitting mayor and the developer money funding… Continue reading Henderson Didn’t Decide Its Mayor in June. Here’s What’s on the Ballot in November.

Helen J. Stewart, the rancher whose water rights anchored downtown Las Vegas, deeded 10 acres of her property to the federal government on Dec. 30, 1911, to be held in trust for the Southern Paiute people who lived alongside her ranch — the only land base the tribe held for the next seven decades. That… Continue reading Helen Stewart Deeded 10 Acres to the Paiute in 1911. Their Colony Now Hosts the World’s Largest Cannabis Dispensary.

Howard Hughes spent less than two years buying five Las Vegas Strip properties with cash, prompting Nevada to rewrite its licensing rules to accommodate a buyer who wanted nothing to do with the state’s old system of hidden ownership. Six decades later, the buildings under several of the Strip’s most recognizable casinos don’t belong to… Continue reading Howard Hughes Bought Five Las Vegas Casinos in Two Years. Their Buildings Are Now Owned by a Public REIT.

The desert springs that gave Las Vegas its water supply for six decades ran dry by 1962, drained by the same groundwater pumping that was already sinking the valley floor. On Aug. 21, 2026, federal regulators finalized new operating rules that cut into Nevada’s Colorado River supply for years to come — and the same… Continue reading Las Vegas’s Springs Went Dry by 1962. The City Now Banks Colorado River Water in the Same Ground.

On Sept. 21, 1991, 550 hospitality workers walked off the job at the Frontier Hotel and Casino, starting a strike that ran six years, four months and 10 days before it ended — the longest in U.S. history by that measure. The union that outlasted that fight, Culinary Workers Union Local 226, now represents 60,000… Continue reading The Frontier Strike Lasted 6 Years. The Union That Outlasted It Now Writes AI Protections Into Its Contracts.

Congress protected 83,000 acres around Red Rock Canyon as a National Conservation Area in 1990, and expanded it three separate times since to its current 198,000 acres. The gypsum mine on Blue Diamond Hill next door was never part of that boundary — private land that predates the conservation area by decades and has outlasted… Continue reading Red Rock Canyon Got Federal Protection in 1990. The Private Hill Next Door Just Drew a Federal Hydropower Filing.