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With cases of coronavirus surging and the death toll rising, lawmakers are pleading with cooped-up Californians not to let a beautiful, sunny weekend tempt them into ignoring social distancing designed to slow the spread of the infections.

Republicans who have spent the past decade howling about the danger of ballooning deficits embraced the mammoth coronavirus rescue package approved by Congress this week, shrugging off past concerns about the nation’s spending in the face of a public …

They toil on the fringes, without any job security or set hours or decent wages. And the coronavirus has made their already difficult lives harder, and more hazardous.

Oprah Winfrey says she’s playing it safe when it comes to the rapidly spreading coronavirus.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus while disturbing new outbreaks appeared in the United States, deaths surged in Italy and Spain and the world warily trudged through th…

Five liquor stores are among more than a dozen unincorporated Clark County businesses that have had their business licenses pulled for remaining open during a state-ordered shutdown.

Tropicana Las Vegas will have a new owner. Penn National Gaming on Friday announced an agreement to sell the Las Vegas property’s real estate assets — including land and buildings — to Gaming & Leisure Properties in return for $337.5 million in “rent …

A Las Vegas man is accused of threatening to buy a gun, travel to Washington D.C., and kill Democratic Rep. Dina Titus …

Las Vegas resort companies are donating personal protective equipment to hospitals and law enforcement agencies …

A corrections officer who traveled to an area heavily impacted by the coronavirus is the first Metro Police employee to test positive for the virus, officials said today. When he got …