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Nevada lawmaker who survived massacre pushes ‘ghost gun’ ban

By KEN RITTER and SAM METZ - Associated Press

Warning issued not to drink Vegas-based ‘Real Water’ product

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris gives her order to Germaine Turnbow, while stopping for lunch at Tacotarian, Monday March 15, 2021, in Las Vegas. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses are opening an ambitious, cross-country tour to highlight the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan and its benefits. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris back on the road after opening weeks in Washington

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

3 indicted in Vegas in 2-state Thanksgiving shooting rampage

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo is the Swamp Cedar Natural Area, a tribal site known as the swamp cedars, considered sacred by a number of Shoshone tribes in Ely, northeast Nevada. Lawmakers are considering strengthening protections for trees that Native Americans in northeastern Nevada consider sacred. The Duckwater and Ely Shoshone tribes have used swamp cedars in Spring Valley to memorialize their ancestors lost in three 19th century massacres and have long joined others in efforts to block a proposed pipeline that would siphon groundwater from rural valleys to Las Vegas. (Benjamin Spillman/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

Scrapped Vegas pipeline plan looms amid swamp cedar debate

By SAM METZ - Associated Press

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden with their grandson Hunter Biden, walk on the South Lawn upon arrival at the White House in Washington from a weekend trip to Wilmington, Del., Sunday, March 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The road show begins: VP Harris, Jill Biden promote aid plan

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Nevada teacher-lawmaker takes to TikTok to reach students

By RICARDO TORRES-CORTEZ - Associated Press

An information slide is seen on the screen during an LVCVA meeting within the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, as Kate Wik, chief marketing officer for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, gives a marketing presentation. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Las Vegas turning to online influencers to entice travelers

By RICHARD N. VELOTTA - Associated Press

Late-winter storm brings rain to Vegas, flakes to foothills

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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo, people pray at a makeshift memorial for shooting victims in Las Vegas, on the anniversary of the mass shooting two years earlier. A panel planning a permanent memorial to the October 2017 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip made a nationwide call on Monday, March 1, 2021, for ideas about how best to remember the 58 people killed and thousands affected by the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Thousands of ideas offered for Vegas mass shooting memorial

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In this Feb. 10, 2021, file photo, people prepare doses of a COVID-19 vaccine at the Martin Luther King Senior Center, in North Las Vegas. Nevada's top coronavirus official didn't guarantee the state can meet President Joe Biden's goal of offering a vaccination to every adult who wants a shot by May 1, but said it gives everyone something to work toward. COVID-19 Task Force chief Caleb Cage said everything depends on vaccine allocations. Seventeen new COVID-19 deaths were reported statewide Friday, March 12, 2021, bringing the pandemic total in Nevada to almost 5,100.(AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Reno area confirms 1st case of variant that originated in UK

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak gets the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Trashelle Miro, Albertsons pharmacy manager, at an Albertsons supermarket pharmacy in Las Vegas Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Nevada governor gets COVID-19 vaccine beside grocery workers

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Vegas woman held on hit-run charge in tow truck driver death

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Nevada felon alleges corruption; granted change of venue

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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, people receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Las Vegas. Coronavirus management officials acknowledged Wednesday, March 10, 2021, that some vaccination appointment slots are going unused in Las Vegas, and that more doses are available than are being administered at the area's two largest mass vaccination sites. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Officials: Some vaccination slots going unused in Vegas area

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2012, file photo, UNLV's mascot &quot;Hey Reb!&quot; attends an NCAA college basketball game against San Diego State in Las Vegas. Nevada lawmakers are considering legislation that would require schools to get rid of racially discriminatory logos and mascots and require officials to push for the renaming of mountains, trails or any other geographic points with racially offensive names. The bill, which is scheduled to have its first hearing Tuesday, March 9, 2021, comes in the wake of a national reckoning over race that's led to school and professional sports teams dropping their mascots. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)

Nevada bill would bar offensive school mascots, place names

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SAM METZ - Associated Press

Ronald Pipkins, who was the first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in Nevada, walks his dog at Siegfried and Roy Park in Las Vegas, on Feb. 20, 2021. A year after he became &quot;Patient Zero&quot; in Nevada's COVID-19 outbreak, Ronald Pipkins is still battling the lingering effects of the coronavirus. He gets up to do something but forgets why. &quot;My body's not ready yet,&quot; the retired Marine told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. &quot;And that's kind of depressing because I'm a Marine.&quot; (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Before thousands died in Nevada, he was ‘Patient Zero’

By BRIANA ERICKSON - Associated Press

Kyle Larson celebrates after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Kyle Larson celebrates return with first win since suspension

By Jenna Fryer - Associated Press

Report: Cost to make Nevada schools average in US tops $800M

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Gonzaga coach Mark Few, left, hugs forward Corey Kispert after Kispert, a senior playing his last home game, left the court near the end of the second half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Loyola Marymount in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Gonzaga won 86-69. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)

No. 1 Gonzaga 2 wins away from joining rare NCAA company

By TIM BOOTH - Associated Press