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On any given day, the remote desert valleys of central Northern Nevada can feel like the most peaceful places on earth. Until the noise from the jets arrives.

David Goldwater, a partner at Inyo Fine Cannabis Dispensary in Las Vegas, said his company is “treading water” during the coronavirus business shutdown, staying afloat with …

Doctors in Las Vegas say they are “cautiously optimistic” about a treatment for COVID-19 patients that has already been used to remedy the sick for more than 100 years. 

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.

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 …