Across the country, the need for a COVID-19 vaccine is growing. We’re getting closer to doses being cleared for distribution, but they won’t be available for everyone right away. The CDC’s team of advisers voted Tuesday on recommendations for who should get the COVID vaccine first. The emergency meeting comes as states prepare to receive COVID-19 vaccines as early as mid-December if one is authorized. And the decision came down to a 13 to one vote.

Across the country, the need for a COVID-19 vaccine is growing.

A coronavirus vaccine could be available as early as next month, as pharmaceutical companies continue making massive progress.

Gov. Steve Sisolak joins the thousands of Nevadans to test positive for COVID-19.

Four months ahead of schedule, work began Thursday morning on a sprawling medical facility that, by 2022, will house UNLV’s burgeoning medical school. But that work comes in the absence of $25 million in state-appropriated money that was pulled this summer amid faltering state revenues and a $1.2 billion budget shortfall triggered by coronavirus lockdowns.

Development on the new UNLV Medical School building officially began this morning, months ahead of schedule and still without originally earmarked monies from the state pulled due to budget cuts driven by the coronavirus pandemic.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday for a future medical education building.

UNLV School of Medicine is holding a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for its medical education building — its first permanent facility.