Pfizer Inc. and German firm BioNTech SE today announced their mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, against SARS-CoV-2 has demonstrated evidence of efficacy against COVID-19 in participants without prior evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on the first interim efficacy analysis conducted on Nov. 8 by an external, independent data monitoring committee from the Phase 3 clinical study.
The Bureau of Land Management Mount Lewis Field Office will begin a wild horse gather on or about Nov. 16 on the Fish Creek Herd Management Area near Eureka. Gather operations will be conducted using the helicopter-assisted method.
Marcel and Patricia Chappuis, the married owners of the Nye County boarding school for at-risk youth, each face 45 counts of child abuse or neglect.
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation announced that for the week ending Oct. 31, initial claims for unemployment insurance totaled 8,158, down 878 claims or 9.7%, compared to last week’s total of 9,036 claims.
A mural project in Pahrump’s Petrack Park was among the grant recipients as the Nevada Commission on Tourism on Wednesday, Nov. 4 approved $1.65 million in COVID-19 Rural Recovery Grants to Nevada tourism agencies and $44,921 in grant funding for a separate program, the Volunteer Impact Program.
Veterans, Gold Star families and fifth-grade students can visit Death Valley National Park and many other federal lands for free, under a new Department of the Interior policy, and everyone is welcome to visit the park for free Nov. 11 in honor of Veterans Day.
Kinross Round Mountain has confirmed an employee fatality after a Nov. 8 incident, and an investigation is underway.
Multiple news agencies have called the 2020 presidential race for Joe Biden to become the 46th president of the United States.
The Nevada attorney general’s office on Friday filed a response to a motion for preliminary injunction in a new lawsuit regarding Nevada’s election.
A single-day high for the number of new COVID-19 cases was reported for Nye County.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Wednesday, Nov. 4 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $24 million.
For abused and neglected children who have been removed from their homes and had their entire lives turned upside down, the world can seem a frightening, unstable place without someone at their side, dedicated to representing what is best for them. That is why Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs, are such a crucial part of the foster care system.
Though it was more than a 2,700 mile journey, New Hampshire resident Betty Ebert and her husband arrived in Pahrump just in time for Election Day 2020.
Voting in the 2020 general election came to an official close on Tuesday, Nov. 3 but ballots are still in the process of being counted and the outcomes for several races were still considered too close to call as of the morning of Thursday, Nov. 5.
