Naoka Foreman

“There's certainly no shortage of issues that come across your desk as county commissioner,” Miller said in an interview with The Nevada Independent on Tuesday. “I enjoyed it … But I’ll step aside to let somebody else take on what really turns out to be more than a full-time job.”

Nurses and hospital staff organized the ceremony inside the hospital’s Healing Garden that featured holiday-themed decorations, cheerful music and flameless candles. Families gathered to place memorial ornaments with the names of their beloved children and the death year or current year on tall Christmas trees in the garden. Some ornaments were dated back to 1964 and 1973.

El personal del hospital organizó la ceremonia, que contó con decoraciones decembrinas, música alegre y velas sin llama. Las familias colocaron adornos en árboles de Navidad con los nombres de sus amados hijos y el año de su muerte. Algunos adornos datan de 1964 y 1973.

“They used to say that they were going to open the street back up,” Ernesten Cooks said in an interview with Vegas PBS and The Nevada Independent. “We'd always say, ‘Well how can you open the street with all these old buildings?’ But I've lived long enough to see that they did open it.”

King’s legacy became entrenched in the Las Vegas area during the ’80s through youth events and parades, followed by passage of long-fought legislation.

As families and children contend with the effects of the housing crisis, a new report shows youth success is strained and worsening in several critical areas.

Advocates for the sex industry want law enforcement to turn the other way at “consensual sex work,” calling for its decriminalization.

This is the second installment of an initiative launched last fall in partnership with Vegas PBS.

Nevada gained more than 400,000 Black residents during the Great Migration, many flocking to jobs at the Basic Magnesium Plant built in 1941.

A current employee at Vegas PBS has filed a discrimination complaint against the station, saying she’s risking her job because she wants to bring attention to “a culture of retaliation and racism.” Vegas PBS Director of Marketing Terry Chi in September filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Nevada Equal […]