Regina Garcia Cano, Author at Valley News

In this Dec. 18, 2018 photo, a "Now Open" sign is displayed at the Pearl River Resort in Philadelphia, Miss. The sports book owned by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the first to open on tribal lands outside of Nevada following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, a no-brainer business decision given the sports fans among its gambling clientele. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Tribes Not Betting on Sports

by Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressDecember 26, 2018

Las Vegas — Two dozen large-screen TVs showing football and other sports line the walls. There’s beer on tap, bar-top seating and leather chairs. Chicken wings are on the menu. And at this American Indian casino in the heart of college-football mad…

In this May 7, 2018, photo, UNLV associate professor Sheila Bock speaks the with the Associated Press at her office in Las Vegas. Bock has been researching how and why students decorate their caps and says the themes over the years have become increasingly political. From “Game of Loans, interest is coming” to “Si Se Puede, Here To Stay,” graduating college students are choosing to decorate their graduation caps, pushing against the formality of ceremonies and taking a stand on an issue before the thousands watching them cross the stage. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Decorated Graduation Caps Reflect Students’ Joy, Angst

by Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressMay 12, 2018

A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump Calls Vegas Shooting ‘Act of Pure Evil’

by Sally Ho Associated Press, and Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressOctober 2, 2017

In this June 28, 2017 photo, a worker puts a bar code sticker on a jar of marijuana at the Desert Grown Farms cultivation facility in Las Vegas. Frenzied activity at these facilities have been focused on one goal: Getting ready for the start of recreational marijuana sales Saturday in Nevada. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nevada Readies for Recreational Pot

by Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressJuly 1, 2017

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., during a press conference where he announced he will vote no on the proposed GOP healthcare bill at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building on Friday, June 23, 2017 in Las Vegas. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

5 GOP Senators Oppose Health Bill — Enough to Sink it

by Alan Fram Associated Press, and Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressJune 24, 2017

Burned out trucks blocks a causeway on Highway 1806, seen from the police side of a barricade of a protest camp in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Demonstrators have been camping for months in an effort to block the nearly 1,200-mile, four-state pipeline. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)

Protesters Split Over Tactics

by Regina Garcia Cano Associated Press, and James MacPherson Associated PressNovember 1, 2016

An unidentified Dakota Access Pipeline protester is arrested inside the Front Line Camp as law enforcement surround the camp to remove the protesters from the property and relocated to the overflow camp a few miles south of Highway 1806 in Morton County, N.D., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Donations to Anti-Pipeline Group Jump

by Regina Garcia Cano Associated PressOctober 30, 2016