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Weeks after a deadly virus reordered daily life in America, shuttering most businesses and forcing most people indoors, three states on Friday took tentative steps toward something resembling normalcy. But across Georgia, Alaska and Oklahoma, it was a…

The shift comes in conjunction with what the White House sees as encouraging signs across the country, with the pace of new infections stabilizing and deaths declining.

Seth Markman was just as nervous as NFL coaches and general managers about the unknown factors involved with a virtual draft.

Here is what Las Vegas absolutely does not need: Mayor Carolyn Goodman uttering one more word about what she thinks is good for the people of this city …

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a fiscal crisis for local governments across the country, including Las Vegas, Clark County, Henderson and North Las Vegas. With casinos and most businesses closed, visitation has stopped, significantly reducing tax r…

Glenndon Bundy adjusted his cowboy hat and leaned against a wooden post near the shoulder of Highway 93. A dry wind blew past; not much happening. A manager at the Sunset View Inn waved him over. “People are …

More than a month ago, the neon blinked off, the slot machines stopped chirping and hundreds of thousands of tourists vanished amid the coronavirus pandemic.
When they will return and what they will find when the do are the kinds of questions Las Vega…

Gov. Steve Sisolak has praised Nevadans for adhering to COVID-19 shutdown directives, but if control measures are reduced too soon, the disease will likely spread beyond control …

On the front lines of the global coronavirus pandemic, our unrelenting health care workers continue to battle COVID-19. But meanwhile, unsung heroes are feverishly working to reinvigorate imaginations and continuing to train our next global leaders: A…

The virus had claimed 206 lives in Nevada as of Saturday, at least 174 of them in Clark County. Out of 1,066 who …