The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Thursday that convention attendance fell 54.8 percent to 249,800. March normally is one of the city’s strongest months for conventions and trade shows.
On Thursday, the Las Vegas-based casino operator reported revenue plummeted 29 percent compared to the year prior, bringing in $2.3 billion between January and March.
You had questions, and we’ve got the answers! Renee Summerour sits down with Dr. Brian Labus, epidemiologist with the UNLV School of Public Health and member of the governor’s medical advisory team, and RJ health reporter Mary Hynes to answer viewer questions regarding the coronavirus spread in Nevada. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
THIS WEEK WE COVERED A LOT OF TOPICS:
1. POSTPONED MEDICAL/DENTAL PROCEDURES
2. GOV. SISOLASK ANNOUNCES TO EXTEND
STAY-AT-HOME ORDER
3. THIS THE STAY AT HOME ORDER PART OF
THE “ROAD TO RECOVERY PLAN”?
4. WILL THERE BE A MASK REQUIREMENT STATEWIDE?
5. DOES WEATHER PLAN A ROLE IN THE SPREAD OF COVID-19?
6. WHERE IS NEVADA THIS WEEK ON ANTIBODY TESTING?
7. MYTH: AIR CONDITIONER CAN CAUSE CORONAVIRUS
8. IS IT SAFE TO GO BACK OUTSIDE? BEACHES? HIKING? ETC?
When casino properties reopen in Nevada following the state-ordered shutdown, safety will be the main focus for gaming operators. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
When casino properties reopen in Nevada following the state-ordered shutdown, safety will be the main focus for gaming operators.
RJ investigations reporter Arthur Kane and Renee Summerour discuss the uncertainty of union contracts expiring in June, and how the extent of the financial damage from the crisis will make it difficult for unions and governments to negotiate collective bargaining agreements, possibly sending many to arbitration. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between three of the four candidates running for Department 2 in Clark County District Court. The candidates are Carli Lynn Kierny, Dustin R. Marcello, Richard Frank Scott.
The iconic Raiders emblem gets installed on the team’s headquarters and practice facility in Henderson on April 22, 2020. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
You had questions, and we’ve got the answers! Renee Summerour sits down with Dr. Brian Labus, epidemiologist with the UNLV School of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, and RJ health reporter, Mary Hynes, to answer viewer questions regarding the coronavirus spread in Nevada. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between three of the five candidates running for Department 24 in Clark County District Court. The candidates are Michael F. Bohn, Daniel Robert Gilliam, Joseph Vadala.
Renee Summerour and the Rj’s Steve Sebelius discuss Governor Steve Sisolak’s “Reopening Plan’, and if it will be enough.
The Culinary Union and SEIU are calling for local ad federal entities to help protect frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
With demand for crude oil continuing to dip due to the stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, the price of gasoline at the retail level has fallen along with it. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
New numbers by the Southern Nevada Health District show COVID-19 disproportionately killing Black and Asian Clark County residents compared to their White and Hispanic counterparts.RJ investigations reporter Michael Scott Davidson and Renee Summerour discuss why that is, other factors revealed in these numbers including gender and age.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between the four candidates running for Department Z in Clark County Family Court. The candidates are Randall Gene Forman, Michele Lynn Mercer, Romeo Ruiz Perez, and Kevin Charles Speed.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between the two of the three candidates running for Department Y in Clark County Family Court. The candidates are Stephanie Anne Charter and Karianne Molnar.
RJ business reporter Bailey Schulz talk about The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation took additional steps adding a new phone line with about 100 workers and reiterating a new online filing system.
Renee Summerour sits down with Dr. Brian Labus, Epidemiologist with the UNLV School of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, and Rj Health reporter Mary Hynes to answer viewer questions regarding the Coronavirus spread in Nevada.
HAS NEVADA PEAKED IN COVID-19 CASES?
HAS GOV. SISOLAK’S SOCIAL DISTANCING ORDERS HELPED?
WILL GOV. SISOLAK REOPEN THE ECONOMY SOON?
WHAT DOES COVID-19 ZIP CODE MAP SAY ABOUT THE SPREAD?
ANTIBODY TESTING? BENEFITS? CONCERNS?
A local Las Vegas chef goes over how to prevent cross-contamination and what the proper steps are when handling food.
The RJ’s Subrina Hudson talks about when Nevadans will receive their unemployment checks, if they will receive back pay and who qualifies for the aid. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Staff members at Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center cheered Wednesday when a patient who’d been critically ill with COVID-19 was discharged from the Las Vegas hospital.
Staff members at Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center cheered Wednesday when a patient who’d been critically ill with COVID-19 was discharged from the Las Vegas hospital. (Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center)
Edward Turken moved to Sun City Summerlin from California with his late wife, Eva, in 1997. Turken was well known in the veteran community in the Las Vegas Valley. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
You have questions and we have the answers! The RJ’s Renee Summerour sits down with Epidemiologist and member of the faculty of UNLV’sSchool of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, Dr. Brian Labus and RJ Health Reporter Mary Hynes for a round-table discussion about questions people have surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between the four candidates running for Department 21 in Clark County District Court. the candidates are Caesar Vicente Almase, Tara Dee Clark Newberry, Bruce L. Gale, and Jacob Alvin Reynolds.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between two of the three candidates running for Department T in Clark County Family Court. The candidates are Nadin J. Cutter and Jason Patrick Stoffel.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between the three candidates running for Department S in Clark County Family Court. The candidates are Regina Michelle McConell, Vincent Ochoa, and Lisa Marie Szyc.
Laughlin couple Debbie Holmgren and Todd Henke were some of the first to use the bus service’s $2 round trip to the Walmart across the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Arizona. The local bus service is offering the route three times per day to ensure locals have access to groceries after the only grocery store in Laughlin closed when coronavirus interrupted their ability to put food on the shelves.
Rj Business reporters Bailey Schulz, Subrina Hudson and Eli Segall talk about the top trending stories at the Review-Journal
The Las Vegas Review-Journal studio hosts a debate between the four of the candidates running for Department M in Clark County Family Court. The candidates are Lynn Neville Hughes, Robert Otto Kurth, Jr., Amy Meredith Mastin, Mandy Jill McKellar.