As temperatures across the valley begin to rise and the summer season inches closer, preparing for the heat in the desert is important.

With the COVID-19 pandemic now more or less under control, Nevada’s gambling and casino industry will return to normalcy.

Nevada’s state of emergency, which gave officials beefed-up powers to address the COVID-19 pandemic at gaming properties and elsewhere, is coming to an end. It will officially stop on May 20 after 26 months.

Governor Steve Sisolak on Friday announced his intention to end Nevada’s State of Emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic on May 20, a move ending a measure lasting 26 months to respond to the global spread of the virus.

Reinfections account for about 9 percent of new COVID-19 cases reported in Nevada, according to state data, a growing number blamed in part on easily transmissible variants.

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV commemorated its partnership with Optum Care by renaming its graduate medical education (GME) classroom space The Optum GME Classroom.

The author John Steinbeck once smartly penned, “A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ.” It is a clever phrase and it is spot on. In fact, science backs it up.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than half of new coronavirus infections in the United States are from the super-contagious BA.2 subvariant. Do you mean that the restrictions and isolations are back? Adriana Arévalo explains to us.