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Jacqueline Cruz-Towns, the mother of Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns, died Monday due to complications from COVID-19 after more than a month of fighting the virus. She was 59.

Americans are beginning to see the first economic impact payments hit their bank accounts.

An inmate booked at the Clark County Detention Center since November has tested positive for the coronavirus. Three other inmates from the same unit were isolated in …

Las Vegas police said Monday that amid more than 100 layoffs, the department’s eight-horse equestrian unit is being disbanded as a cost-cutting measure.

An isolation and quarantine facility designed to serve the Las Vegas Valley’s sick and symptomatic homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic will open this evening. Called the Isolation and Quarantine (ISO-Q) Complex, the tented facility can support up to…

A fourth worker has tested positive for the coronavirus at the Resorts World Las Vegas construction site on the Strip. The latest case was confirmed Saturday, according to …

As small businesses are hit with the brunt of the shutdowns brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, one industry also has been frozen out of economic aid from the federal government: gaming.

There’s more to the Stage Door than its claim as a legendary resort-corridor watering hole. It also contains a grocery store—and that secret gem has remained open during the COVID-19 shutdown.

When grocery stores started running out of eggs, some savvy shoppers knew where to look — their local farm stand.

Out of work in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, some people are not only worrying about how to protect their health but how to pay their next bills. The virus, which has infected more than 2,400 people and led to at least 80 deaths in Nevada, ha…