Doctors in Las Vegas say they are “cautiously optimistic” about a treatment for COVID-19 patients that has already been used to remedy the sick for more than 100 years.

The updates have become as commonplace as checking the weather app on your phone each morning.

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.

An excessive heat warning has been issued for Las Vegas, with the valley forecast to hit triple-digit temperatures Wednesday for the first time ever in April.

As temperatures begin to rise in Las Vegas, many are wondering how extreme, summer heat will affect the spread of COVID-19, so 8 News Now spoke with local experts Friday.

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 new report raises an interesting question: could the consumer electronics show have played a role in spreading the coronavirus?

As doctors in Las Vegas and around the world try to grapple the unknowns of the novel coronavirus, one area many are looking at is in our blood and what the antibodies we produce in our immune system can tell us about the way the virus is spreading.