There were 27 new deaths reported on Tuesday, along with 1,697 additional cases, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website.
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The Nevada Republican Party held a news conference Tuesday to announce another lawsuit centered around the GOP’s continued election fraud allegations.
Brought by the families of six students in special education, the lawsuit filed on Aug. 21 claims the district has denied students with disabilities a free and appropriate education during distance learning.
The Clark County School District will remain in distance learning through the remainder of the semester, according to a message from Superintendent Jesus Jara.
The number of election discrepancies surpassed the razor-thin margin of victory in contest between Ross Miller and Stavros Anthony.
Issues with the Southern Nevada Health District’s website prevented registrations and access on the portal to test results.
It is too soon for Gov. Steve Sisolak’s plea to residents to stay home as much as possible for two weeks to be reflected in the data, state officials said.
Las Vegas police union officials suggested that the Metropolitan Police Department has been overeager in asking employees to stay home. The sheriff refuted.
The tragedy on Nov. 21, 1980, killed 87 and injured hundreds more. It also ushered in fire safety reforms and greatly expanded the Las Vegas legal community.
“We are back where we were and we do not have control over COVID,” state biostatistician Kyra Morgan said Thursday at the weekly meeting of the state’s COVID mitigation task force.
A day after Gov. Steve Sisolak implored Nevadans to stay home for two weeks to contain the recent coronavirus spike, the state again reported more than 1,000 new cases.
Republicans have alleged widespread voter fraud because of Nevada’s mail-in ballots. A review of facts found few irregularities that could have swayed the results.
The nation’s first female-majority legislature will be adding women to its ranks, if preliminary results from the 2020 election hold when ballots are finally certified.
The school district released a transition plan Monday that calls for students to attend in-person classes two days a week.
The Clark County School Board will consider Thursday night whether to reopen school campuses under a hybrid model — a change that would take effect in January.