U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Thursday that misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic poses an “imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health.”

Sometime next month, for the first time, the federal government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead.

At more than 420 parts per million (ppm) in May, scientists measured the highest levels of carbon in the atmosphere since they started taking direct measurements 63 years ago at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory.

With the number of COVID-19 cases rising, the Southern Nevada Health District is recommending vaccinated and unvaccinated people wear masks in crowded indoor spaces, including casinos and grocery stores.

The Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine now comes with a warning on its label about an increased risk of nerve damage known as Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).

When about 13 million adults have received this vaccine, and we're just beginning to hear about this new potential side effect, it begs the question: Should you be worried?

Hundreds of thousands of Nevada families with children under the age of 18 started receiving their first payments of the expanded federal child tax credit this week.

Nevada is one of the nation's worst hotspots for COVID-19, with a high infection rate and low vaccination rate. That led to the governor requesting help from the Biden Administration's 'COVID surge response team,' a new program announced July 1.

Nevada added more than 15,000 jobs over the past month as it kept climbing back from the economic ruin of the coronavirus outbreak, state officials reported Thursday.