American democracy, always perhaps less sturdy than we imagined, has shown itself of late to be alarmingly fragile. Its survival depends on a number of elements currently in short supply: elected officials who abide not just by the law but by long-observed Constitutional principles and norms of behavior; a body politic animated more by the better angels of our nature than by our baser instincts or a cynical grasping after power; and, finally, on some minimum number of agreed-upon facts, and a shared sense of reality, among the citizenry.

UNLV has announced details of its virtual commencement ceremonies scheduled for next week, which will include some Spring 2020 students as well as its Winter 2020 class.

An Australia-based buyer has bought the land where the Las Vegas' first racially integrated hotel-casino used to sit.

After an unprecedented, pandemic-caused shutdown during the spring of 2020, Las Vegas continues its slow recovery. Sin City aims to manage the coronavirus pandemic until vaccines begin arriving for the most vulnerable people, hopefully before New Year’s.

The United States could be just hours away from the first COVID-19 vaccine being approved with Nevada anticipating its arrival later this month.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will make recommendations at a hearing on Thursday regarding the approval of one of the two leading vaccines for COVID-19, but in addition to the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness concerns, experts in Nevada are faced with determining how they will get approved doses to the people who need them.

Most of us have always respected doctors, but now many people are seeing doctors as heroes and more are trying to be them.

As the United Kingdom officially begins its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, we are inching closer to the same here in the United States. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new data, giving more insight into how effective the COVID-19 vaccine really is.

The highly anticipated rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine poses ethical considerations: When will trial volunteers who got a placebo be vaccinated? And how will this affect the data in those trials?