About 200 people gathered Wednesday at Chuck Minker Sports Complex to mark International Overdose Awareness Day and to remember those who lost their lives due to overdose.
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The City Council is scheduled Wednesday to consider talks for a possible mixed-use medical campus at the 50-acre property.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2 was spotted in Southern Nevada.
For the first time in over a month, Clark County on Wednesday reported fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus cases over the preceding day.
Southern Nevada and other areas of the state labeled at “high” risk of COVID-19 transmission will remain under a state mask mandate into early 2022, a state official says.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot, a major expansion of the nation’s vaccination campaign.
A day after the county dipped into the “substantial” risk category under the CDC’s classification system, its rate of new cases per 100,000 rebounded into “high” risk territory.
“She tried so hard to have that baby, and she never even knew it was born. Never got to hold her,” Vena Foster said about her sister, Kimmie Pavone, who was 35.
Spencer Haywood played 12 seasons in the NBA and in four All-Star games. He won an Olympic gold medal and an NBA title. But none of that particularly impressed his daughter, Shaakira, a New York City psychologist.
The virus, which is transmitted by the insects, can, in some cases, cause serious illness and even death.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto met with first responders and mental health professionals at Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
The Washoe County Health District said it received about 3,600 doses in its first shipment of the newly approved drug.
Grocery store workers are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination at the University Medical Center’s Encore location.
In another small milestone in the battle against COVID-19, members of the public on Tuesday began receiving vaccine shots at a Las Vegas Convention Center clinic dedicated to “second dosers.”
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