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Southwest Airlines will add a second daily non-stop flight to Denver beginning Feb. 13, Reno-Tahoe International Airport officials announced today.

We've now confirmed through multiple sources inside and out that the Nevada Appeal will once again publish on Tuesdays starting Sept. 28.

Our sources say this is related to the elections, which makes a lot of sense. It would be quite a hardship to not have a paper on Election Day, which in years past has be chock full of political ads.

In a new twist on the sign spinner marketing technique, Barry Jones was zooming up and down the sidewalk on Stewart Street promoting his Little Caesar's Pizza franchise in the Carson Mall.

Have you seen any other unique business marketing tips? Share them with us.

Jonathan discusses the best ways to start selling products or services online. What are the choices for people who are just starting to think about the possibility of selling on the internet?

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The city's new Business Resource and Innovation Center is now open for business.

Located across Proctor Street from City Hall, the center brings together the building, planning, business license and business development departments under one roof for the first time. The center also makes resources from the Carson City Library available for those who need to do research for starting or expanding their businesses.

The Carson Valley region, which includes Carson City, and the Stateline casino corridor at South Shore Lake Tahoe were the only two regions in Nevada that saw an increase rather than a decrease in gaming revenue for the month of June, the state's gaming control board reported today.
The casinos in the Carson City and Carson Valley area climbed by 5.1 percent over the fiscal year for June, followed by the Tahoe casinos, which jumped to 13.5 percent.

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A job fair to fill 130 positions at the Carson City Kohl's store continues through Thursday at the Carson City Plaza Hotel Conference Room.

Applicants can go to the job fair today, which runs through 7 tonight, or can apply online at www.kohlscareers.com, or call (877) 639-5645. The store will be at the former Mervyn’s building on South Carson Street between Koontz and Eagle Station lanes, and is set to open in September.

Greater Nevada Mortgage Services received the highest award ever presented to a lender, the “Most Valuable Partner”, by the Nevada Rural Housing Authority at their recent board meeting.

Bloomberg Businessweek has a story out naming Nevada as number 5 of the top 10 housing markets stages for a strong rebound by 2014.

Carson City was named the as the market within Nevada to have the largest projected increase in home prices.

The Reno-Gazette Journal reports tonight that after 27 years Carson RV has shut its doors.

A job fair to hire 130 positions at the new south Carson City Kohl's store will be held Aug. 8-12, company officials said today.
The job fair will be at the Carson City Plaza Hotel Conference Center, 801 South Carson Street, Carson City.

A massive traffic spike forced Carson Now offline at about 8:45 this morning. The site is back online now (or else you wouldn't be reading this) on a new server with more resources, but we are still dealing with a few issues.

We had heard rumors of recent activity at the never-opened Sportsman's Warehouse store in the Southgate Center on South Carson Street.

And now, it looks like there will be a new Big Lots store moving in this fall.

While a discount closeout store isn't exactly the kind of high-end (or medium-end) store residents might have been hoping for, it's better than an empty storefront.

Have you been thinking of finally taking a great vacation in 2011? Join the Carson City Chamber of Commerce at Red's Old 395 Grill beginning at 5:30 today for a discussion on the 2011 Collette Vacations Chamber Trips.

For a preview of the intineries to be presented click on the links below.

RSVP so the Chamber can reserve a spot exclusively for you.

For those of you who have been here before, you will notice that the top of the page has changed.

We wanted to update the design a little bit, and make it easier to see the different menu items. We will be making a few more small changes in the coming days.

If you spot any problems with how the site looks on our computer, please contact us. Thanks.

For those Google News fans out there, you can now find Carson Now stories on the popular news aggregation site.

You can find our stories here.

Jonathan Denwood discusses Seth Godin's book Purple Cow, about how businesses find success by being remarkable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ8RbDog1uA

Move Saves Atlantis Approximately $6K/Month

CARSON CITY, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Until recently, Reno’s Atlantis Casino Resort Spa leased secure warehouse space for storing administrative documents and gaming receipts. When it came time to destroy outdated documents, they hired a shredding service to come in about once a month to perform secure document destruction. In an ongoing effort to save costs and increase efficiency, the casino looked at other options and services.

Google has chosen the Nevada Commission on Tourism's online winter ski commercial as a successful case study after it attracted 8 million viewers in seven targeted markets, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki announced today.

Casino game winnings in Carson City and Carson Valley dropped by 1.1 percent in May, while statewide gaming revenues declined by 4.7 percent, according to figures released today by gaming regulators.