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KUNR Today: Cortez Masto leads Laxalt in Nevada Independent poll but Biden’s approval rating ominous

Lucia Starbuck

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

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Local Stories

KUNR Today: Under DNC plan, Nevada may get better spot on 2024 presidential nominating calendar

Lucia Starbuck

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Monday, April 25, 2022.

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KUNR Today: Some Western states take up abortion bills, Tahoe granted $1 million to expand access

Kaleb Roedel

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Friday, March 18, 2022.

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KUNR Today: Cortez Masto calls out gas companies, Nevada using $500 million on affordable housing

Kaleb Roedel

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Friday, March 11, 2022.

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KUNR Today: RSIC opens drive-thru dispensary, Nev. joins effort to lower prescription drug costs

Kaleb Roedel

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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KUNR Today: Nevada orders 500,000 at-home COVID-19 tests, Omicron surge strains ambulance services

Michelle Billman

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.

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KUNR Today: Reno holding public forum on Neon Line District, Man charged for 2020 Dayton Fire

Noah Glick

Read or listen to the morning news headlines for Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021.

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Business and Economy

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on how federal infrastructure law could impact Nevada

Kaleb Roedel

President Joe Biden recently signed a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill into law. KUNR’s Kaleb Roedel spoke with US Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez…

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Politics and Policy

Sen. Cortez Masto reflects on Jan. 6, how the government has handled the pandemic and climate change

Noah Glick

Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto has been serving Nevada in the U.S. Senate since 2017, filling the seat left by the now-retired Harry Reid. She has worked…

A bill introduced by Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto would allow Clark County to develop 30,633 acres of public lands in the Hidden Valley south of Las Vegas for affordable housing.

Housing

Where can Las Vegas build affordable housing? A Nevada senator eyes public lands.

Nate Hegyi

The idea of selling public lands is sacrilegious in much of the West. In Southern Nevada, the affordable housing crisis may be an extenuating circumstance.