Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Politics and Government
Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
Henderson and North Las Vegas filed a petition in March challenging a policy change that affected nonvoting school board members’ power during meetings.
Environmentalists have filed an application with the federal government to list the Amargosa toad, found only in the Oasis Valley northwest of Las Vegas, as an endangered species.
Cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and statewide plateau this week after increasing the prior week for the first time in three months.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said Thursday the state had ordered more than a half million at-home COVID-19 tests.
An increasing number of sick employees and an continuing rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations have extended a staffing crisis in Southern Nevada hospitals for a second week.
Initially plagued by scarce supply and high demand, the state and local public health drive morphed into a well-oiled machine — but one with abundant doses and too few takers.
New cases and test positivity rate register double-digit percentage gains while 100 more COVID-19 patients are in county hospital beds compared to two weeks ago.
New cases and hospitalizations extend recent declines as positivity rate remains unchanged at 7.0 percent.
Nevada on Thursday reported 1,221 new coronavirus cases and 24 deaths over the preceding day.
Positivity rate also jumps sharply to 9.5 as deaths remain above two-week moving average.
Vaccine will be available at pharmacies, mass inoculation sites and some doctor’s offices following final review of new federal guidelines on the Pfizer shots.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 464 new coronavirus cases and six additional deaths over the preceding day, but hospitalizations were lowest in more than a month.