Nevada’s senior U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto was one of only two Democrats voting with Republicans against a government shutdown Tuesday. Cortez Masto was also one of ten Senate Democrats who vote...

When I received an email earlier this summer from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) seeking volunteers for a pilot research project studying the effects of heat and wildfire smoke on Washoe County residents, I immediately emailed back. I wasn’t sure if I was someone DRI would want to study, but I was hopeful. Scientists Kristin VanderMolen and Yeongkwon Son are looking to learn how heat and smoke affect people’s health.

While the best-known rivalry in the valleys is that between Carson High School and Douglas High School (which we all know only has one true blue winner), there is one far, far older. Two communities have spent over a hundred years in a tense standoff over one question: who was here first? Now, a caveat: obviously, the entire region has been the home of the Washiw, the Northern Paiute and the Shoshone for over 10,000 years.