COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
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Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bipartisan bill to repeal COVID-era health regulations.
Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
Already at pandemic lows, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations dipped this week.
Given that the population of Nevada is relatively young, the state “should have done better,” said one health expert.
Fremont Street Experience’s website is no longer selling wristbands that grant access to the six-block downtown entertainment district on New Year’s Eve.
Las Vegas may have lowest number of tourists since before The Mirage opened its doors in 1989.
Nine months after the pandemic’s start, McCarran International Airport’s passenger traffic has started to inch higher but remains a fraction of what it was in prior years.
Despite recommendations from officials not to travel over the holidays, Americans have been setting pandemic passenger highs at airports across the nation.
One Las Vegas family’s plan for tropical getaway to Hawaii turned into a quarantine disaster after issues with an at-home COVID-19 testing service.
The next hurdle in containing COVID-19’s spread will be convincing a large swath of the U.S. population to get vaccinated.
Dozens of conventions and business gatherings in Las Vegas have new dates in late 2021 or 2022.
The consensus of business leaders on Gov. Steve Sisolak’s decision to extend the statewide pause to Jan. 15 in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus is that it could have been worse.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said the situation for jobless Nevadans is dire as the state’s rainy day fund is wiped clean and federal aid expires in weeks.
As of Wednesday the TSA reported 101 confirmed cases of coronavirus among TSA employees at McCarran since the pandemic began, marking a 55 percent increase since Nov. 19, when 65 cases were noted by TSA data.
The California-based Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights wants an assurance that casino companies would reject COVID-19 relief unless they have no-smoking policies in place.
Starbucks is offering first responders and health care workers free coffee through Dec. 31.
The lack of convention sand trade shows and fewer flights are the biggest reasons Strip properties are having greater financial angst than their locals counterparts.
Tourism has fueled the economy for decades. The pandemic has painfully exposed its dangers.
When people have money to burn, Las Vegas heats up. But as seen twice now in the past decade or so, when the national economy gets hit hard, Southern Nevada ends up on life support.