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A shrewlike creature in Madagascar that can hibernate for at least nine months of the year without waking may help reveal how mammals survived the cataclysm that ended the age of dinosaurs, researchers suggest.


Women often come to Harriet Barlow with a question: “Can we have it all?” Her answer is always yes, but she advises them to have defined “all” as something they want, not what others may have told them to want.


Diversity leadership talks focused on women


The little girl squirmed in her mother’s arms inside a lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, her American flag-themed dress contrasting with the hammers, rulers and other engineering equipment that surrounded her.


A Las Vegas business owner faces a legal fight over a word most of us use every day.


Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas say nearly one-third of the state's kindergarteners are overweight or obese.


Nearly a third of Nevada children are considered obese by the time they enter kindergarten, according to a recent 51ԹϺ report.

Can Reno hotels hold onto last year’s gains in room rates? In 2013, the average daily room rate rose 9.6 percent to $83.66, the largest jump since 2007, according to the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority. Occupancy jumped, too, from 63.7 percent in 2012 to 66.6 percent last year.
