When it comes to COVID-19, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.

When it comes to COVID-19, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.

Tom Gordon of Carson City didn’t expect his backyard to become an excavation site when he starting planting trees this summer, but that’s what happened after he found what looked like an animal graveyard.

COVID-19 has impacted virtually every sector of the U.S. economy. Struggles in one sector caused ripple effects on others when stay-at-home orders halted or curtailed normal business operations. Unemployment has reached historic levels, and in April, consumer confidence dropped to its lowest point since 2014 and has yet to rebound to pre-COVID-19 levels. Hertz, Neiman Marcus and JCPenny are just some of the corporations that have already filed for bankruptcy.

IRS data on racial disparities in the laws it administers remains conspicuously absent, but the effort to change that is starting to gain traction.

Teachers won newfound respect at the start of the pandemic as parents learned just how difficult it was to teach their kids at home.

Tom Gordon of Carson City didn’t expect his backyard to become an excavation site when he starting planting trees this summer, but that’s what happened after he found what looked like an animal graveyard.

The UNLV fall semester starts on August 24th with freshmen moving into the dorms this Tuesday. While the majority of classes are online this semester, UNLV says students will have to adjust to some new norms for in-person instruction.

The stories often begin the same way: A family party, a holiday hangout or dinner at a friend’s house, the kind of once-innocuous gatherings no one would have batted an eye about attending six months ago.