Gabe Stern

  • Nikki HaleyPolitics

    Nikki Haley loses resoundingly to ‘none of these candidates’ in Nevada primary

    By Michelle L. Price, Jonathan J. Cooper, and others
  • Muddy desert plain seen on September 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada&#8217;s Black Rock desert into a mud pit. Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded September 3, in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death.<br /> Video footage showed costume-wearing &#8220;burners&#8221; struggling across the wet gray-brown site, some using trash bags as makeshift boots, while many vehicles were stuck in the sludge. (Photo by Julie JAMMOT / AFP) (Photo by JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Burning Man organizers have 3 weeks to tidy up an apocalyptic expanse of abandoned cars, furniture, and trash after the festival turned into a mud bog

    By Ed Komenda, Gabe Stern, and others
  • A record heat wave has boiled the U.S. southwest this year, exposing workers to health risks.Health

    Record high temperatures shine spotlight on the rising risk of death and injury for workers toiling in extreme heat

    By Gabe Stern and The Associated Press
  • A maintenance worker pushes a refuse cart in the sun, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, in Las Vegas. A historic heat wave that began blasting the Southwest and other parts of the country this summer is shining a spotlight on one of the harshest, yet least-addressed, effects of climate change in the U.S.: the rising deaths and injuries of people who work in extreme heat, whether inside hot warehouses and kitchens or outside under the blazing sun. Many of them are migrants in low-wage jobs. (AP Photo/Ty O&#8217;Neil)Environment

    ‘Chief heat officer’: Extreme heat is forcing authorities to consider new worker protections amid rising deaths and injuries

    By Gabe Stern and The Associated Press
  • FILE &#8211; This rendering provided by the Oakland Athletics on May 26, 2023, shows a view of their proposed new ballpark at the Tropicana site in Las Vegas. The Oakland Athletics cleared a major hurdle for their planned relocation to Las Vegas after the Nevada Legislature gave final approval on Wednesday, June 14, to public funding for a portion of the proposed $1.5 billion stadium with a retractable roof. (Courtesy of Oakland Athletics via AP, File)Finance

    Nevada lawmakers approve $380m in public funding for stadium to bring Oakland Athletics MLB team to Las Vegas

    By Scott Sonner, Gabe Stern, and others
  • FILE &#8211; A Sony logo is seen at the headquarters of Sony Corp. on May 10, 2022, in Tokyo. A bipartisan group of Nevada lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday, May 11, 2023, that would give record tax credits to expand film production in southern Nevada, including a Sony expansion in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)Finance

    Nevada lawmakers want to offer $190m in annual tax credits for 20 years to bring film productions to the state

    By Gabe Stern and The Associated Press
  • South Carolina House lawmakers celebrate the passage of a bill establishing criminal penalties for trafficking in fentanyl on Feb. 1, 2023 in Columbia, S.C. State lawmakers across the nation are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl. (AP Photo/James Pollard)Politics

    Fentanyl overdoses are connected to 70,000 deaths a year and the crisis is pushing states to implement harsher drug laws

    By Gabe Stern, James Pollard, and others