The Clark County School District does not plan to make public the numbers of students and employees required to quarantine due to being a close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 out of privacy concerns, Superintendent Jesus Jara said Thursday.

Around 3% of Americans are now eligible for a third dose of Pfizer and Modernas COVID-19 vaccines — and some have already gotten their shot.

After a two-week delay because of COVID-19-related hospital capacity issues, a UNLV law professor underwent cancer surgery Wednesday.

Bay Staters will soon be able to play poker in-state again, when MGM Springfield opens its doors to poker players by the end of the year.

Africa’s youth population continues to grow rapidly: In fact, the World Bank predicts that people under the age of 25 are set to comprise 50 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa by 2050.

Students attending a university, community college, or state college in Nevada will need to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 by November 1 to enroll for classes in the spring 2022 semester, under an emergency regulation approved by the Nevada Board of Health in a unanimous vote Friday.

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $915,120 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, to support the post-pandemic revitalization of Nevada's travel and tourism sectors.

Approval of aducanumab will herald a new era in Alzheimer’s disease care and research.

Self-reported cases in the hundreds underscore the need for face masks, officials say.