Megan Messerly

Over more than three decades of service in Congress, Reid earned a reputation for fighting relentlessly to protect his home state and everyday Americans. As Senate Democratic leader for a dozen years, he played an instrumental role in passing the Affordable Care Act and shepherding through Congress …

In this week’s edition, we take a look at the latest COVID-19 data in Nevada as the Omicron variant arrives in the state, public health officials continue to urge residents to get the vaccine and boosters and the state marks the one-year anniversary of its vaccination effort.

This week, we look at the latest COVID-19 data as the holiday season approaches and more cases of the Omicron variant continue to be identified across the U.S., though none have yet been identified in Nevada.

This week, states across the nation began announcing their first cases of the Omicron variant, the latest COVID-19 to be designated a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at the latest inflection point in the pandemic with case numbers appearing to level out in Clark County while starting to climb again in Washoe County.

Nevada’s rapidly diversifying electorate didn’t widen the Democratic margin of victory in the state’s presidential election between 2016 and 2020, suggesting newly activated voters of color may not be as reliably Democratic.

In this week’s edition, we look at the state’s improving COVID-19 metrics, though Washoe County started to see a plateau in its declining case numbers this week.

In Nevada, which ranks last in the nation for nursing home resident vaccination rates, 1 in 4 residents has yet to be fully vaccinated. There are few clear answers why — but an abundance of theories.

In this week’s “Coronavirus Contextualized,” we take a look at how Nevada is continuing to recover from its summer COVID-19 wave as the effort to administer booster shots to Nevada’s most at-risk individuals continues.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths as Nevada continues to recover from its summer Delta surge.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at this week’s slightly improved case numbers as Nevada hit the milestone of having 50 percent of its residents fully vaccinated this week.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at how hospitals in the northern and rural portions of the state continue to be hit hard by COVID-19 as medical staffing challenges facing the nation continue to challenge the state.

In the vaccination campaign, mandates may just be the final frontier. If scientists, public health officials, family doctors, and cash prizes can’t convince people, the thinking goes, maybe a mandate from their employer will.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at the current state of the pandemic as Nevada finds itself in a worse situation than it was in at the same point last year but not yet as bad as the one it saw during the fall and winter months.

If Illinois Rep. John Shimkus has his way, life — the human kind — will come to Yucca Mountain not as it did in the 1990s to construct an experimental facility but to turn the site into a long-term nuclear waste repository that will receive shipments of radioactive waste from 121 sites spanning 39 s…

In this week’s edition, we take a look at the fluctuating case numbers in recent days, as the situation continues to worsen in Washoe County and several other counties and remains uncertain in Clark County, where cases continue to stay high.

In this week’s edition, we take a look at how COVID-19 is hitting Nevada unevenly, with cases and hospitalizations starting to plateau in hard-hit Clark County while continuing to climb in Washoe County.

The mask mandate can’t replace the vaccination effort, public health experts say, but may help buy vaccinators time against the quickly spreading and highly transmissible Delta variant.

COVID-19 cases are now nearly as high as they were during last summer’s surge. As of Thursday, 1,007 new cases were reported on average each day over the previous seven days.

COVID-19 cases continued to climb this week to levels the state hasn’t seen since early February. As of Thursday, an average of 830 new COVID-19 cases in Nevada were reported each day over the last seven days.