Election day is Nov. 8 and people have been voting using early and mail-in methods for weeks. As the hours are counted down until votes are tallied and Nevadans start to receive a picture of the results, Dr. Rebecca Gill from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas weighs in on what to expect.

A lot of attention is on the state of Nevada as multiple House and Senate seats remain in play with control of Congress on the line.

Many races in Nevada’s 2022 election could go “red” or blue” due to the razor-slim margins for polls, according to a UNLV professor.

Vegas restaurant icon Lotus of Siam put Thai food in our city on the national map — one food critic called it the “bestThai food in North America,” and chef Saipin Chutima has won a James Beard award (which is basically the Grammys of food).

Sure, we tell folks that we’re “from Las Vegas” when we’re traveling… but how many of us are actually from the city itself? The majority of the Valley lives in either one of the adjacent municipalities (like Henderson and North Las Vegas), or in unincorporated Clark County.

Every year, the Mental Health Institute releases a report on the state of mental health in America. One of the measures looks at the incidence of youth mental illness compared to the availability of quality mental healthcare.

One fine spring afternoon this year, as I was out running errands in the small Norwegian town where I live, a loud beep startled me into awareness. What had just been on my mind? After a moment’s pause, I realized something strange. I’d been thinking two things at the same time—rehearsing the combination of a new bike lock and contemplating whether I should wear the clunky white beeper that had just sounded into a bank.

In 2020 Lynn Manning John, a member of the Duck Valley Shoshone Paiute Tribe, in Owyhee, collected around five ballots from residents in the reservation and drove about 90 miles both ways to Elko to put them in an official drop box.

On a chilly morning in an east Las Vegas strip mall, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto made a pitch she’s made dozens, if not hundreds, of times in the past few months:

Nevada gaming companies have pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into political campaigns for the upcoming election, mainly favoring Democrats, according to financial disclosures.

The GOP stands a good chance of winning the elections for governor in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. A victory in Oregon would be the party's first since the 1980s.

The issue tends to benefit Democrats, even in states like Arizona, which has undergone a major demographic shift with the arrival of more families from progressive states like California.