The year 2020 has been among the most challenging years this generation of Americans has ever faced. From political divisiveness and civil strife to the COVID-19 pandemic that continues throughout our great state and nation. But amid the difficulty, there are encouraging signs.

Every minute, another Nevadan is diagnosed with COVID-19. Every two hours, an infected resident dies.

Recipe debates tend to get people heated fast. Things get particularly fiery around the holidays, when people share their tips and preferences online. Arguments about the best Thanksgiving dish rage on: People seem to feel strongly about things like jellied cranberry sauce, for example, which is popular in America around Thanksgiving but grosses out a lot of people with its sweet flavor and odd texture.

Recipe debates tend to get people heated fast. Things get particularly fiery around the holidays, when people share their tips and preferences online. Arguments about the best Thanksgiving dish rage on: People seem to feel strongly about things like jellied cranberry sauce, for example, which is popular in America around Thanksgiving but grosses out a lot of people with its sweet flavor and odd texture.

In the wake of COVID closures and plummeting casino revenue, Las Vegas hotel room rates have plunged to all-time lows.

Philadelphia. Las Vegas. Cleveland.

Southern Nevada residents are facing delays in getting an appointment for COVID-19 testing as demand increases amid a surge in coronavirus cases.

On Tuesday, Nevada casinos cut already-reduced capacity limits in half to comply with Gov. Steve Sisolak’s ordered three-week statewide “pause.” But indoor malls and retail stores are allowed to keep operating with the previous 50 percent capacity limit.