Following months of chaotic legal wrangling, Nevada's window to get approval for its first execution in more than 15 years will close this weekend as the state's "surreptitiously obtained" supply of a crucial lethal injection drug nears its shelf life.

A week before Christmas, I got the dreaded call from my physician: "Your COVID-19 test came back positive." It was my second time with the disease, so I thought I knew what came next. The physician recited the standard protocol for isolation. I asked if there were any medications I could take to help my sore throat, chills, and nasal congestion. Suddenly, the physician veered off script.

A week before Christmas, I got the dreaded call from my physician: "Your COVID-19 test came back positive." It was my second time with the disease, so I thought I knew what came next. The physician recited the standard protocol for isolation. I asked if there were any medications I could take to help my sore throat, chills, and nasal congestion. Suddenly, the physician veered off script.

Over the past year, 1.6 million Nevadans — or about half of the state’s population — have been inoculated against COVID-19 in a roller-coaster rollout of the vaccine.

In the past year, 1.6 million Nevadans (or about half the state's population) have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in a rollercoaster-like vaccine rollout.

The 5,000 state employees and 1,400 university employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 could have to pay an additional $55 a month in their insurance plans as well as an additional $175 for unvaccinated dependents over the age of 18 to help recoup testing and hospitalization costs.

Metro Police have no plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for existing officers, despite FDA approval of the Pfizer shot and the deaths of four officers from the coronavirus.

Nevada, like much of the nation, has been facing a summer surge of the pandemic. But is there light at the end of the tunnel?