Dr. Ivan Goldsmith’s medical license was made inactive after the Nevada medical board found he accessed medical records of the Oct. 1 shooter without treating him as a patient.
Arthur Kane
Former Investigations Editor
Questions are being raised about civil liberties under strict coronavirus shutdowns. Enforcement has led to violence, arrests and fines in some states.
Business leaders say the governor needs to be more transparent about plans to reopen the Nevada economy. Sisolak issued a directive late Wednesday extending the stay-at-home order.
Colorado is allowing some businesses to open this week in some areas of the state despite high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Utah is expected to move its alert level Friday.
About half of Southern Nevada’s public employee union contracts are set to expire in June, just as the financial damage from coronavirus closures will be made more clear.
Las Vegas drive-up clinics expect more coronavirus tests this week, and there is hope a new rapid-result test will boost availability.
A Las Vegas congregation is asking Nevadans for submissions to a Book of Life for the regent after his death Friday.
Federal agents looked into the owner and other properties as part of a 2019 investigation, months before the downtown building was the site of a deadly fire.
Nevada officials have stated they need more COVID-19 test kits. Four times they have asked federal officials for help only to be told there is a “indefinite backlog.”
The FDA allowed Nevada to become one of three states that are allowed to develop and evaluate tests for infection by the new coronavirus.
Nevada has one of the lowest ratios of doctors and nurses for our population. Patients suffering coronavirus symptoms will have fewer places to turn to for care.
Las Vegas patients are encountering multiple errors with drive-up COVID-19 tests. One woman had to return a second time after the test was administered improperly.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled autopsies are public in response to an RJ lawsuit. Clark County spent more than $80,000 in taxpayer money fighting to keep autopsies secret.
The former Henderson constable wanted to keep his police powers despite pleading to a gross misdemeanor charge, but the state police board revoked his certification.
The Nevada Board of Dental Examiners provided two top staffers it terminated with months of separation pay and health insurance benefits.