As states begin reopening after shutting down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, certain industries, such as hospitality, entertainment and travel, may not bounce immediately back until both guests and employees feel safe being close to one another again.

A significant change at the top of Nevada's employment department was announced Tuesday with the director stepping down.

UNLV will distribute $11.8 million in federal coronavirus relief money to students.

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As states begin reopening after shutting down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, certain industries, such as hospitality, entertainment and travel, may not bounce immediately back until both guests and employees feel safe being close to one another again.

UNLV's Lee Business School has announced the creation of the Lee School Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as the school looks to compel entrepreneurs to develop innovations to help address the problems facing the hospitality, entertainment or travel industries due to COVID-19.

In a post-COVID-19 world, people are going to be far more worried about keeping safe from viruses and other pathogens. That concern will probably hurt tourist destinations like Las Vegas, which is why UNLV's Lee Business School is offering a total of $1 million to entrepreneurs who can figure out how to ease those concerns.

Trustees Greg and Ernest Lee of the Ted and Doris Lee Family Foundation have revealed the creation of the Lee School Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a joint collaboration with the Lee Business School at UNLV.

About half of Southern Nevada’s public-sector union contracts are under negotiation or will expire at the end of June, giving labor groups an immediate opportunity to accept or fight concessions to help balance government budgets devastated by the COVID-19 crisis.

Gov. Steve Sisolak has praised Nevadans for adhering to COVID-19 shutdown directives, but if control measures are reduced too soon, the disease will likely spread beyond control, said Brian Labus, an epidemiology expert at the UNLV School of Public Health.

Gov. Steve Sisolak has praised Nevadans for adhering to COVID-19 shutdown directives, but if control measures are reduced too soon, the disease will likely spread beyond control, said Brian Labus, an epidemiology expert at the UNLV School of Public Health.

A few neon lights at the casinos are still flashing, “open 24 hours”, stands above a closed burger bar. A homeless person sets up in a restaurant entrance for the night. On a pedestrian bridge over the Strip, the legendary entertainment mile in Las Vegas, Cici Ballard - pink hair, tattooed forearms - stands with friends and points to the deserted sidewalks below them, the closed bars, the silhouettes of the hotel towers. "It's kind of scary," she says, pulling her cigarette deeply.