The coronavirus pandemic has been a financial nightmare for many in the Las Vegas valley including hair salon owner Lisa Ortiz.

If you’ve headed to a store recently, you may have noticed signs requesting exact change. Some stores are claiming there’s a coin shortage because U.S. Mint closures have affected the coin supply right now and they don’t have enough change on hand for customers.

As economists around the world try to make sense of the coronavirus pandemic's growth-destroying capacity, a team at Bankrate.com has devised a simple measure of 'economic hardship' to measure how much the outbreak in the US has harmed each state. BR's index comprises measures of unemployment and mortgage delinquencies (two critical signs of personal financial peril) to judge how the people of every state have fared since the outbreak began.

Las Vegas’ unemployment rate dipped last month as locals went back to work following the pandemic-sparked shutdowns.

For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.

The two-month casino shutdown in Nevada seems to have an end in sight.

Nevada’s April unemployment rate was the highest in state history and the worst of any state in the country, data released Friday show.

Restaurants inside casinos are now allowed to reopen. But that doesn’t mean they will.