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A century ago, miners in Tonopah risked their lives to pull a fortune of silver and gold from the nearby mountains. Though the mines went quiet years ago, the town of a little more than 2,000 people is betting that another boom is on the horizon.

En este episodio de Al Aire con KUNR, la reportera Maria Palma informa acerca de las noticias de la semana.

This month’s episode of Purple Politics Nevada features Democrats Zach Conine and Nicole Cannizzaro running for attorney general during the June Primary.

Executive Pastry Chef, Sarah Craichy from The Edgewood in Lake Tahoe, prepares to compete in The Ultimate Baking Championship on the Food Network and HBO.

The second annual Truckee Literary Crawl, featuring over sixty authors, takes place on April 10 and 11 at several Truckee venues.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.

Oscar Martinez is a graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno. A born and raised New Yorker, his transition from the Big Apple to the Biggest Little City has been quite the culture shock.

James Perez is a journalism student at the University of Nevada, Reno, with an emphasis in news, broadcast, documentary, and sports media.

Ammad Omar oversees coverage of the western United States for NPR and serves as the editorial lead at NPR West in Culver City, California.

As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.