HARI SREENIVASAN: Deep in Nevada’s Mojave Desert — 100 miles from the Las Vegas strip — the rocks provide glimpses into the lives of Native Americans who inhabited this area for thousands of years. Hundreds of their petroglyphs, or etchings, are carved on the rocks in this area, now known as Gold Butte.

Cancer mortality rates vary considerably within the growing Hispanic population in the United States, with significant differences among the major Hispanic ethnic groups. The study is published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Paulo S. Pinheiro, MD, PhD, an associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Community Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The women's prison population has tripled in the past two decades because of sentencing reforms and a criminal justice system that is biased against women, according to a criminal justice reform researcher.

New federal rules on enforcement of U.S. immigration laws issued Tuesday echoed across the Las Vegas Valley, with undocumented immigrants and their advocates expressing fears of widespread roundups and supporters of President Donald Trump’s applauding his get-tough policy.

Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip had one of their best years in recent memory in terms of writing off uncollectable gambling debts, according to 2016 figures.

Is Southern Nevada once again on the short end of the stick when it comes to state spending on capital projects? The answer depends on who you ask. More than 70 percent of Nevada's population lives in the south, and while Clark County generates about 80 percent of the state's revenue, it gets far less than that when the budget is sliced and diced.

The video game industry is picking up speed in Nevada, a new report from the Entertainment Software Association shows.

As Nevada lawmakers debate raising the state’s minimum wage, one question is continually dredged up: Does raising the wage through legislative action violate the state Constitution. It’s a question asked by the Nevada Restaurant Association, which raised similar complaints over the legality of raising the wage during the 2015 session and is now reviving those arguments as Democrats try to push for a raise in the wage floor.

El Nino-related weather has produced some warmer temperatures around the valley for this time of year, and this has caused plants to bloom a little earlier than normal.