Monica Cortez, an assistant superintendent, said she’s confident classes will be back in session on Wednesday. She called the five-day pause “an adjustment to our calendar.”
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Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara is a member of Chiefs for Change, which developed the tool to help school districts respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Emma Burkey, who suffered a devastating COVID-19 vaccine side effect, is undergoing nearly 30 hours of physical therapy each week as she fights to regain her ability to walk.
The offering is made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Community Eligibility Provision, which serves schools and school districts with a high poverty rate.
The president of the Clark County Medical Society, who also is an OB-GYN, is urging all pregnant people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
St. Rose hospitals are the first in Southern Nevada to announce such a requirement.
During a Clark County School Board meeting Thursday, some audience members were yelling and more than 10 were asked to leave or escorted out of the room by police.
Immunize Nevada and Jardi Jardín Premium Cannabis Dispensary are partnering to launch “Jabs For Joints,” a one day pop-up vaccination site at the dispensary’s storefront on Friday.
Positivity rate also jumps sharply to 9.5 as deaths remain above two-week moving average.
Forced to take most of its programming online by the pandemic, Blindconnect found innovative ways to remotely offer Braille and cooking classes.
The UMC Advanced Center for Health will offer vaccinations by appointment on weekdays.
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.
Health officials have confirmed the first northern Nevada case of a COVID-19 variant that originated in the United Kingdom, and they are trying to determine if the infection linked to a large gathering in Washoe County may have spread to others.
Student emergency funds existed before the pandemic, but Las Vegas-area colleges and universities are seeing a greater demand from students seeking help paying their bills.
More than 5,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Nevada. The victims came from all walks of life. They were doctors, nurses, educators. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters. Our neighbors.
Many seniors, including nearly 15,000 in Nevada, are rejecting getting a COVID-19 vaccination because of their perception of the cost.
The Green family’s plight illustrates in wrenching detail the blunt-force impact the pandemic has had on the struggle for many to maintain a roof over their heads.
A Clark County School District educator’s GoFundMe campaign helped a once-homeless family get back on its feet.
As adults wrangle with pandemic fatigue, their kids — and their teachers — are doing the same as they navigate the ins and outs of distance learning.
UNLV researchers found 28 percent of valley seniors are food insecure before the pandemic. Now, they’re nervous that a study conducted last year may show the problem is now worse.
Since the pandemic, the number of Southern Nevadans who can’t afford enough food for themselves or their children surged.