A fatal fire in downtown Las Vegas and the global pandemic dominated the news and the Review-Journal’s investigative efforts in 2020.
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Nevada is entering 2021 with a 10.1 percent unemployment rate as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take its economic toll.
Clark County released hundreds of autopsies to the Review-Journal on Thursday as part of an investigation into the county’s child protection division.
State Sen. Pat Spearman, one of Nevada’s most respected and well-known lawmakers, has been hospitalized due to COVID-19, she confirmed to the Review-Journal on Thursday.
The fatalities from the disease and new cases of COVID-19 reported by the state over the preceding day were well above the 14-day rolling averages.
The county has reached a milestone in the effort to identify the spread of infection in the region as statewide cases and hospitalizations rise and the vaccine rolls out.
Earlier this month, Washoe County Judge Barry Breslow found the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation in contempt of a July 22 court order.
The head of the state laboratory says the more contagious strain of the new coronavirus is likely already here.
Clark County asked the state high court to reconsider its Tuesday ruling, which ordered the records released, but the court refused to grant any delay.
Nevada signed a $28.4 million contract to hire hundreds of workers in June, paid with federal CARES Act relief funds.