Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are tied in Nevada in latest Emerson College polling.
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The former employee said she was pressured by a Control Board member to engage in discriminatory hiring practices.
The bill’s sponsors say it is a small step toward addressing public health implications associated with widespread sports betting legalization.
Rep. Steven Horsford has introduced his version of a no-tax-on-tips bill that includes getting rid of the federal tipped subminimum wage.
The Presumption for Radiation or Toxin Exposure Coverage for Troops Act would establish the presumption veterans were exposed to toxins at the Nevada Test and Training Range.
State official makes comparison as new coronavirus cases continue to soar in the county, which reported 2,366 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
Clark County on Wednesday reported 2,201 new coronavirus cases — the largest single-day increase in nearly a year.
Clark County on Thursday reported 1,107 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day increase in nearly five months, suggesting the omicron variant is rapidly spreading.
The new cases in Nevada bring the state total to five and come as omicron becomes the dominant coronavirus strain nationwide.
While some other counties in Nevada are making progress toward exiting the state’s face mask mandate, metrics for Clark County have been moving in the wrong direction.
The county’s test positivity rate continued to climb from Friday through Sunday and now stands at 7 percent. Other metrics were flat to lower.
CDC data showed that Clark County had a case rate of 139.54 per 100,000 people, a slight increase from a week earlier but still significantly short of the number needed to exit the mask mandate.
A Mineral County man first infected with the delta variant tests positive 22 days for a new substrain of the virus known as AY.26.
Gov. Steve Sisolak made the comment on Thursday at a news conference to praise FEMA “surge teams” for increasing the state’s COVID-19 vaccination rates as the mission draws to a close.
This “variant of interest” has a unique mutation that may make it resistant to the protection offered by vaccine and past infection.