When 6-year-old Olamide Ajayi heard that his former home-school teacher Miss Lisa Bernauer was sick with cancer and struggling to pay her medical bills, he wasted no time springing into action. He prepared a money jar with her picture on it. He cut a video and put up a GoFundMe page. He even hit up a flight attendant for a donation.

On Friday, January 17, U.S. Representative Steven Horsford invited stakeholders to discuss three major Nevada environmental issues with pending federal legislation: Yucca Mountain, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, and the Clark County Lands Bill.With him was Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona, who chairs the Natural Resources Committee.

A Nevada group wants a special commission – not state lawmakers -- to redraw statewide voting maps. To do that would take two consecutive votes by state residents. Fair Maps Nevada is trying to get 100,000 signatures by mid-June to get it on the ballot this fall. Fair Maps Nevada is supported by the League of Women Voters of Nevada, which is pushing to prevent gerrymandering nationwide. Sondra Cosgrove is the president of the League of Women Voters of Nevada.

Hours after the smoke cleared from the December 21 Alpine Motel Apartments fire, investigators said the culprit appeared to be a stove. For many tenants of the housing complex, that appliance was their sole source of heat. They had complained about their broken heaters to the property owner, but to no avail. And not only did the heaters remain broken, so were the fire alarms.

A man who quickly became one of the most beloved sports figures in Las Vegas, Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant, is gone.Gallant coached the Vegas Golden Knights from their inception three years ago, taking them to the Stanley Cup finals that first year.But Gallant was fired by management Wednesday after the Knights lost a fourth game in a row.Management said he was fired because they had a “feel” it was the right time.

For two years, environmentalists, hunters, jeepers, tribal leaders and other Nevadans who love recreating in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge have been waiting to see what lay in store for it.

Genting Group, who owns and operates casinos worldwide, will spend $4.3 billion on Resorts World Las Vegas, a mega-resort rising from the ashes from the Great Recession and set to open in the summer of 2021.Resorts World Las Vegas is being built on the former Stardust site that Boyd Gaming had hoped to build the Echelon resort before the recession halted those plans.

Michael Schaus likes EVs almost as much as he dislikes big government.The communications director for the libertarian-leaning Nevada Policy Research Institute and self-described car guy says the market, not government, should decide the adoption of electric vehicles.“I’m actually kind of excited about what’s going on with electric vehicles,” he told State of Nevada. “From an ecological standpoint, it makes a lot of sense in some circumstances.

In Nevada’s effort to become more electric-vehicle friendly, Kristina Swallow works where the rubber meets the road.She’s director of the Nevada Department of Transportation, the billion-dollar agency in charge of state highway projects, which includes efforts such as installing the Electric Highway network of EV charging stations around the state.Swallow told State of Nevada that a challenge of increasing EV ownership is the funding gap caused by fewer people paying their road taxes when they fill up their cars.

Nevada has one of the nation’s fastest adoption rates for electric vehicles in the country, but still, fewer than 2 percent of motorists drive EVs.Who are these people?Some, like Stan Hanel, have been electric car buffs for years.Hanel, a lifelong tinkerer, got interested in EVs when he worked in Silicon Valley. It’s an affection he brought to Las Vegas when he retired.