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The Dayton area will see 45 new single-family homes that will be developed north of the Smith's store off Retail Road, at the corner of Kate Peak Road near Kramer Way, according to Nevada Rural Housing Authority.

While immigration has become a controversial topic in national politics, two organizations have been working together for the last decade to help Latinos in the local community with immigration issues and other challenges.

The Consulate of Mexico in Las Vegas offers mobile consular services through United Latino Community, a Carson City area nonprofit formerly known as Nevada Hispanic Services.

We just completed National Pollinator Week, a designation that recognizes all that pollinators do for our food supply, environment and economy. Last year the Obama administration released a “National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators” led by U.S. Department of Agriculture.

It’s hard not to be impressed by the winning records of the Carson Futbol Club. But if you talk to the coaches themselves, they’ll tell you the club means so much more than trophies, though trophies are always nice.

“It works pretty much like a family,” said Frank Martinez, coach of the boys CFC team Pumas Elite. “The main thing is to guide these boys to be better people and better men.”

With summer here and more people heading outdoors to enjoy the season, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest would like to remind visitors and residents in communities adjacent to the Forest to be extra cautious while engaging in activities that could start a wildfire.

Rimfire is a bit unusual as 19th Century Nevada towns go.

Although there's a saloon, a bank, a hotel, a cantina and a jail, Rimfire is the only town in the Silver State that can pack up and leave with its residents.

The USNS Carson City, the US Navy’s newest Expeditionary Fast Transport Vehicle christened in January, completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico this week. The Carson City will be formally turned over the US Navy on June 24, 2016.

MOBILE, Ala. — Future USNS Carson City (EPF 7), the U.S. Navy’s next expeditionary fast transport ship, has successfully completed acceptance trials during an underway period in the Gulf of Mexico in late May.

Tourism brings millions of dollars to American Indian tribes each year. Sustaining growth and promoting cultural heritage help build successful Nevada tribal communities. Coming to Carson City this Wednesday and Thursday, the 8th Annual Nevada Tribal Tourism Conference is an opportunity for tribal leadership, artists, grant writers, vendors and museum curators to hear from presenters who can help them build local tourism and economies.

Recently, my friend Bob in Gardnerville asked me to recommend a native groundcover that was more insect-friendly than vinca, otherwise known as periwinkle. I asked him a few questions about the site. It faces southwest, has poor soil and is irrigated.

Carson City’s most impassioned TEDx enthusiasts will come together on Friday for a day of information, inspiration, networking and dialogue around the theme Creating the community you want to live in.

The event will take place at Brewery Arts Center’s Black Box Theater and will feature an incredible line-up of speakers on topics ranging from innovations and ideas to health to technology and the arts. Attendees will also have an opportunity to network at an on-site lunch event.

Pursuing an education in nursing has taken Diana Meza Cabrera on a lengthy road of challenges, experiences and rewards.

Since graduating from high school in 2006, Meza Cabrera consistently found ways to help others. As an outreach educator for the Live Violence Free program in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., she has assisted domestic violence, child abuse and sexual abuse victims. She also been a student assistant at the Humboldt State University Health Center, and has participated in blood and toothbrush drives while attending WNC.

The Capital City Arts Initiative announces its exhibition, Great Basin Native Artists, with art works by seven Native American artists at the Carson City Community Center's Sierra Room that is running now through July 6, 2016. The Community Center is located at 851 E. William Street, Carson City.

Everyone is on a metaphorical road to another destination every single moment of every single day from sunup to sunup again, and what is done along the way leaves a lasting imprint on both the doer and the receiver.

Like Karsen Law, an unexpected winner in the SkillsUSA photo competition, the students of Carson High School are continuously coming up with the unexpected and creating memorable opportunities for not only students to participate but the Carson City community as well.

Labor workers converged outside the Tesla Gigafactory work site early Monday morning. Many of the workers walked out of the Gigafactory to protest, saying Nevada tax breaks are being spent to hire New Mexico workers.

Joe Freeland, a fire and aviation advisor for the Bureau of Land Management, has been named State Forester Fire Warden, the director of Nevada's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced Friday.

UPDATE 3:51PM: Five were arrested early Tuesday in connection with a drug trafficking operation at a Woodside Drive apartment in east Carson City. The men were booked into Carson City jail on multiple felony charges. According to Carson City Jail booking, the following were arrested:

Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a 3-part series on upcoming TEDx Carson City speakers.
Organizers for TEDx Carson City say they have a lineup of speakers and artists who share strong passions, clear vision and strong held desires to make things happen for a greater good.

Peppermill Resort Spa Casino hosts a crafted five-course dinner expertly paired with Patrón Barrel Select Añejo Tequila made specially for the Peppermill. Exclusive cocktails are paired with every course. The dinner was inspired by the Peppermill’s Food and Beverage Director Daniel Duran’s trip to Guadalajara, Mexico. Duran has ensured the local’s warmth and culture is infused in every dish and drink. Make reservations by calling 775.689.7160.

TravelNevada has hired Yennifer Reyes Callen as its international sales and public relations specialist, handling several of the state’s key international outreach programs.

More than 17,500 earthquakes were recorded in 2015 by the University of Nevada, Reno’s Nevada Seismological Laboratory. That includes the 231 recent quakes in south Reno and the magnitude 4.8 in Caliente that shook Las Vegas in January 2015.

Caroline Gabica slid activated hand warmers into her boots, picked up a bag of footballs and followed the coach out onto the field during the playoff game between Carson and Reed high schools in November. Soon Gabica, manager for the Carson High School Senators football team, was back on the sidelines, taping up the injured fingers of a player who got tangled up with another player’s face mask.

Long time community events coordinator Fred Nietz, whose company Arlington Group Events started the very first Silver and Snowflakes Tree Lighting for Carson City Mainstreet, now in its 25th year, passed away Tuesday at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center. He was 71.

Gil Tapia embodies today’s CNC, or computer numerical control, machine shops: Neat and well groomed, smart and ambitious. From his neatly tucked in CGI polo shirt to his perfectly trimmed hair, he represents the precision and quality his employer is known for.

Professor Karl Karlstrom has spent a lifetime studying rocks, including the 225-mile long natural wonder of the world, the Grand Canyon. He will give a lecture at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Discover Science Lecture Series at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19.

You can’t think about Halloween without thinking about bats. Those creepy, blood-sucking rats with wings give us the heebie-jeebies and we don’t care who knows it. Well don’t let Jennifer Newmark, Wildlife Diversity Division chief for the Nevada Department of Wildlife hear you say that.

New Millennium Building Solutions is expanding its Northern Nevada operations in Fallon, the Northern Nevada Development Authority announced Thursday. New Millennium recently began a two phase expansion at its current facility and will hire up to 17 additional employees over the next six months.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Alexander Morfin, 26, of Modesto who is considered armed and dangerous. Morfin may be in Nevada, California or Mexico, according to the FBI. He is wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2008 murder of Victor Gaona, 37, of Modesto, Calif.

Morfin is a Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes. He stands 5 feet, ten inches tall and weighs approximately 175 pounds.

A strong El Niño is predicted to help ease drought conditions in some, but not all of California. The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center released their latest seasonal weather assessment on Thursday, and the news isn't very good for the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the man found dead Sept. 23 at Baily fishing pond in south Carson City near the fairgrounds and Fuji Park as Carl Braziel, 46, of New Mexico.

The family of the deceased man was notified by the coroner. The cause of death has not been determined and is pending until the report from the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office is completed, said Carson City Sheriff's Detective Steve Olson.