Nevada recorded 1,004 new cases of COVID-19 — the second biggest daily increase announced by the public health officials — and eight additional deaths, new state data show.
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The Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation hosted its weekly media briefing Friday to update Nevadans about unemployment insurance.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is ordering restaurants to work at half of their capacity, but he has declined to shut them down entirely as authorities seek to control a strong coronavirus outbreak that has doubled the daily case count in two weeks.
President Trump will take baby steps back out onto the road Friday after a multiweek hiatus caused by a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases and after his planned comeback in Oklahoma turned into a debacle.
The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
Gov. Steve Sisolak says that bars in certain counties in Nevada will return to Phase One (in which bars that didn’t serve food were closed) starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday. A list of counties affected will be released Friday.
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that 92 inmates had tested positive, an increase of 25 since June 22.
Lawmakers spent the second day of a special session Thursday continuing their review of proposed spending cuts needed to fill a projected $1.2 billion hole in the state budget.
Fifty out of 56 businesses passed a second check this week after receiving warnings for not complying with COVID-19 safety requirements, state officials said Thursday.
The Nevada congressional delegation is fighting an amendment brought by a Utah congressman that would allow the Air Force to access the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
The Nevada Policy Research Institute has filed a lawsuit contending that nine state lawmakers — including the Democratic leaders of both houses — are ineligible to serve under the state Constitution.
New cases were well below the daily average of nearly 614 over the preceding week, while deaths were well above the daily average of nearly five over the period.
The Supreme Court on Thursday kept a hold on President Donald Trump’s financial records that Congress has been seeking for more than a year.
The Pentagon’s top leaders are going before Congress on Thursday for the first time in months to face a long list of controversies, including their differences with President Donald Trump over the handling of protests near the White House last month during unrest triggered by the killing of George Floyd in police hands.
Gov. Steve Sisolak says he gets daily briefings about how the state is working to fix delays in the state’s unemployment system, which was overwhelmed by a huge number of claims.