RENO – The two major party candidates running in the 2nd Congressional District special election to replace Dean Heller stuck to their talking points in a tame hour-long debate here today.
But the verbal jousting in front of about 150 people at the California Building in Idlewild Park still managed to illustrate the contrasts between Republican Mark Amodei and Democrat Kate Marshall.

Three juveniles were arrested Sunday after allegedly breaking solar panels at Seeliger Elementary School.The mother of a 12-year-old brought her son to the Sheriff's Office to tell deputies he h...

Carson City firefighters put out a fire burning under and inside a mobile home this evening at the Seven Star Mobile Home Park on Koontz Lane.

The owner, Norman Leblanc, said he had been burning weeds outside his home earlier, and thought he had extinguished the fire, but evidently had not. The fire was able to get under the trailer and spread into the walls from there.

By Mike Wolterbeek
A new invasive species has been identified at Lake Tahoe, and it’s likely to be the most aggressive fish to ply the waters of the mile-high lake.
“In our work to remove warm-water fish from Lake Tahoe, we’ve discovered smallmouth bass, a much more ferocious predator than other species known to have invaded the lake,” Sudeep Chandra, limnologist at the University of Nevada, Reno said. The removal work is being coordinated by the California Department of Fish and Game as part of the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program and funded in part by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.