In the desert, water is more valuable than gold. Drought has been gripping Nevada and the region for years.

U.S. military intervention is the most visible and dramatic manifestation of American foreign policy.

Any emergency room doctor will tell you that a patient who presents with multiple injuries requires multiple interventions to save his life.

Nevada must reject any offer Congress makes to open Yucca Mountain in exchange for enhanced federal funding. The reason is simple: Any deal is not worth the risk.

About 100 miles east of Los Angeles, Palm Springs, with its cloudless skies, bright sunshine and warm temperatures, was the desert playground of golden-era Hollywood.

In the last bits of 2014, Albuquerque's economy rebounded. Sort of.

The new Brookings Mountain Monitor report said that Albuquerque's rate of job growth accelerated throughout the last quarter of 2014. The increase was the city's fastest quarterly job growth since before the recession, the report said. The report measures major cities in the Rocky Mountain region, as well as Las Vegas and Arizona cities.

Phoenix, Tucson and eight other metro areas in the Rocky Mountain region ended 2014 with solid if not robust economic gains, according to a new study.

Nevadans will vote on the legalization of marijuana in 2016. This is a historic public policy decision that several states have already faced, and one that Silver State voters will carefully consider.

One answer to the West's drought problems is building a pipeline to divert excess Mississippi River floodwater out to the West. It's been proposed, but it's also never been built. Cost is one objection.

The needs of southern Nevada’s medical sector are robust by just about every indicator out there: physicians per capita and resident vacancies, to name a few.

There's been a lot of hubbub about the effort tech whiz Tony Hsieh and his crack team of acolytes have put into revitalizing downtown Las Vegas. In case you missed it, Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, in January 2012 announced that he was putting $350 million into the Downtown Project, which would fund new businesses in an economically depressed part of the city seven miles north of the Las Vegas Strip. He also wanted to create a tech hub in a city better known for gambling and tourism, which some journalists dubbed the newest "techtopia."

The top brass of UNLV and the Nevada System of Higher Education lobbied lawmakers today for $27 million in upfront funding for a medical school in Las Vegas, instead of the $8.3 million proposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval.