“This crime certainly doesn’t have a zip code,” said Bryan Wachter, senior vice president of Retail Association of Nevada, at Rep. Susie Lee’s press conference on Friday where they discusses organized retail crime.
Politics and Government
Until recently, Las Vegas mayoral candidate Irina Hansen had never aspired to run for office.
President Joe Biden has a new plan to secure the border. His track record is not good.
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at an outdoor rally Sunday at Sunset Park. The rally is being held two days before Nevada’s June 11 primary.
The unemployment rate edged up to a still-low 4%, from 3.9%, ending a 27-month streak of unemployment below 4%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot Janssen vaccine will be offered as well as the Pfizer vaccine.
Vaccination events at the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign and at a strip club signal a new phase of the inoculation campaign in Southern Nevada.
More than a million first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Clark County, the Southern Nevada Health District announced in a press release Tuesday.
There’s a silver lining in the dominance of troubling variants when disease numbers are declining, according to Nevada’s state lab director.
The state’s test positivity rate, meanwhile, remains unchanged at 4.8 percent, according to state data posted Thursday.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 348 new coronavirus cases and five additional deaths over the preceding day, as the state positivity rate dipped again to 4.8 percent.
Nevada on Friday reported 389 new coronavirus cases and seven additional deaths, ending another week of improvement in the key metrics for the disease.
New federal guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most indoor and outdoor settings is now effective in Nevada. Yet businesses in the state may still require masks for customers and employees, if they so choose.
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.
The health district’s chief health officer says about 50 percent of eligible Clark County residents 16 and older has received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Clark County has set a threshold of 60 percent before fully reopening.