Seven jails are now fully in compliance with a law that requires the facilities create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Politics and Government
Workers in Nevada will see a bump in the state’s minimum wage this summer.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, set sentencing for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
Hospitalizations are rising at the same time large numbers of health care workers are getting ill and missing work, the Nevada Hospital Association said Wednesday.
Key COVID-19 metrics for Nevada are expected to rise over the holiday season, but it remains unclear how the omicron variant could alter the “impact and magnitude” of the surge.
The 796 new coronavirus cases added in updated data from the Southern Nevada Health District was the most since the district reported 824 new cases on Sept. 11.
Clark County on Tuesday reported 528 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths during the previous day as all four of its major COVID-19 metrics increased.
The bill allows Nevada students to take up to three mental health days a year and adds mental health resources to the back of all student ID cards statewide.
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.
Clark County on Thursday reported 581 new coronavirus cases and five deaths over the preceding day, but statewide reporting and other metrics were not available.
Clark County on Wednesday added 359 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths as the test positivity rate jumped for a second straight day.
Deaths remained flat while the county’s test positivity rate for new coronavirus infections dropped by 0.1 percentage points to 6.0 percent.
Clark County on Wednesday saw most of its major COVID-19 metrics continue to fall as it reported just 333 new coronavirus cases and 11 deaths recorded during the previous day.