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The Las Vegas City Council Wednesday unanimously approved emergency policies to help struggling small businesses during the COVID-19 shutdown …

The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation has announced the opening today of a new unemployment insurance call center. The center will be open from …

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman again implored the governor to allow businesses to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying today the shutdown is “killing” the economy. Goodman, who earlier compared the virus to the common flu, also questioned whe…

Millions of South Koreans wore masks and disposable gloves as they voted in parliamentary elections Wednesday, the highest turnout in nearly three decades despite the coronavirus.

Stocks swung back down Wednesday after more signs piled up of the economic damage being caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people

Nations around the world reacted with alarm Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the World Health Organization.

The Tour de France has new dates, and it will be followed by cycling’s two other major races.

Weeks of quarantine with kids have a way of burning through a movie collection.

The major banks in the U.S. are anticipating a flood of loan defaults as households and business customers take a big financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic.