Virus Outbreak

While many parents were hoping for a full return to the classroom soon for the Clark County School District, CCSD's Board of Trustees on Thursday approved taking baby steps before allowing everyone to return.

The last day of operations at the drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Texas Station will be Friday.

A U.M.C. COVID-19 Vaccination Center will open its doors at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas on Monday.

The UNLV School of Public Health has been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the State of Nevada to continue its COVID-19 contract tracing efforts in partnership with the Southern Nevada Health District.

A new study found about one-third of Nevada residents currently are unlikely to get vaccinated for COVID-19 but their explanations of their reasoning suggests it’s possible to persuade many to change their minds, one of the lead researchers said.

Las Vegas, NV (KXNT) - The Clark County School District board of trustees meets Thursday night to discuss the beginnings of students returning to the classroom.

One Las Vegas hospital said Wednesday that it declared a capacity crisis over the weekend, citing a surge of COVID-19 patients that overfilled its intensive care unit.

Starting Wednesday, the drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Texas Station at Rancho and Lake Mead will operate three days a week, Wednesday through Friday, starting at 8 a.m.

More than 5,500 Southern Nevadans who are in arrears in their payments to Southwest Gas due to the loss of employment or other economic effects stemming from the pandemic have had their bills paid for by Clark County with the use of federal CARES Act funding.

The Walmart Super Center located near McCarran Airport is closed for what the company calls “routine COVID-19 sanitation cleaning.”