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Robin looks at a sports film about a young girl from a Ugandan slum.

A look at the latest incarnation of "The Magnificent Seven".

After the death of your child, you must remain close with their spouse if you want access to your grandchildren. Here's some ways to cope.

Couples argue about whether what the other has done is "abuse". It really doesn't matter what you call it; the behavior is unacceptable.

Parents and teachers love behavior charts. Unfortunately, the research says they don't work. Here's why.

Everywhere you look kids are playing with phones-but is it wise or necessary?

Starting this weekend, some Washoe County voters will be heading to the polls to cast their ballots. Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray has the details. Luanne Cutler is with Washoe’s Registrar of Voters. She’s expecting most people to turn out during early voting. “The past few election cycles," Cutler explains, "we’ve had well more than half of the voters who show up, vote early.” Based on past elections, it gets even busier in the last few days of early voting, so Cutler has this advice: “If the

For the first time, there are two Millennials running for a seat on Sparks City Council. Our contributor Gabriella De Leon, with Noticiero Movil, reports on the race for Ward 1. Donald Abbot and Denise Lopez have a lot in common. They both want to pass Washoe County Question 1, an initiative to raise sales tax to help fund public schools. Both candidates want stricter jay walking laws and to continue the expansion of Sparks’ congested roads. Where the two diverge is their vision for city’s

Note: This story orginally aired on May 24, 2016. This November, Washoe County voters are being asked whether or not to approve a sales tax increase to pay for school capital improvements. School officials say the money will help alleviate overcrowded classrooms. For quite some time now, many area business leaders have been hammering the message that school overcrowding could hurt the region’s economic growth. About four hundred gathered this past spring to rally support for the measure. Reno

In tracing the City of Reno back to its beginnings, some, like local biographer Jack Harpster, would say it all began with an inn by the Truckee River and a bridge. In his newest book, The Genesis of Reno: The History of the Riverside Hotel and the Virginia Street Bridge, he dissects the influence the two landmarks have had on Reno throughout the past and present. “The fact that an inn is still in the same site a hundred sixty-eight years later and a bridge is on the same site a hundred sixty