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New comments from Senator Dean Heller seem to imply the U.S. Supreme Court could have a vacancy as soon as this summer. In a Q and A with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society in Las Vegas last week, Heller made a number of bold claims. Among them, a prediction that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire by early summer. "That being the case, the Republicans are going to have an opportunity to put another supreme court justice in place, which I'm hoping will get our base motivated because

Teenagers hoping to clinch the title of state champion for the Poetry Out Loud program gathered last weekend at a competition in Reno. Our reporter Holly Hutchings was there and has the story. Nine high school students take turns standing on stage at the KNPB studios in near darkness, illuminated only by a few lights aimed in their direction. They take their mark, facing rows of family members, strangers, and two tables of judges. Then, they deliver their words, some written hundreds of years

Children need focused, connected time with parents and caregivers.

It's best to leave sensitive topics for when you both are sober.

Sales tax revenues in Nevada are up, partly thanks to recreational pot. We sat down with Bill Anderson, executive director of the Nevada Department of Taxation, to break it all down. So, the latest revenue numbers are in, and December marked the 90th straight month the state has seen growth in sales tax revenues. What does that mean, both for the state and for its general fund? Well, it's certainly good news. In fact, we can go back about a quarter of a century and we have yet to find a similar

Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles is working to ease the process of changing gender markers on driver's licenses.

This flu season has been one of the most severe in recent years. In the last two weeks, though, the flu epidemic has eased nationally. Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray checks in with a Washoe County epidemiologist to see how the region is faring. Kerry Chalkley is an epidemiologist with the Washoe County Health District . She’s been tracking the flu epidemic in the region throughout this season. Chalkley explains that Washoe County had nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of the flu so far this season. That

What can you do to prepare your children to live in a dangerous world?

Communications research has a few tricks for the best way to negotiate with your partner.

We close out Black History Month with the story of one of the first Black student organizations at the University of Nevada, Reno. Historian Alicia Barber takes us back to 1971, when a group of students took a stand by sitting down, in this week’s segment of Time & Place . Only 33 Black students attended the University of Nevada, Reno prior to 1960. That number more than doubled in the sixties thanks to new federal support for minority and out-of-state students, and increased recruitment of