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New route between Minden and Carson City, simplified fares greet BlueGo bus riders
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 8:11am

A simplified fare structure will greet BlueGo passengers this weekend and a new route between Minden and Carson City begins Monday, the Tahoe Transportation District announced today.

The new fare and route structure allows BlueGo to hold the line on bus fares without major price increases on its main routes and enables the transportation system to operate in a positive and sustainable manner.

Carrigan found guilty of child neglect
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 3:01am

A Carson City jury on Thursday found Justin Carrigan guilty of failing to get help for his 3-year-old stepdaughter, who was unconscious and not breathing inside his home last year. They found hi...

Economist voices cautious optimism for recovery
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 3:01am

Two of the financial minds of City National Bank expressed cautious optimism for a slow-and-steady economy at a luncheon with the bank's current and prospective clients Thursday.Perry Wong, senior ...

Conte won't fight extradition to Ark.
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 3:01am

A former Carson City emergency room doctor and convicted kidnapper waived extradition Wednesday and will be returned to Arkansas to face murder charges in a 2002 double killing there. Richard Conte...

Winging it this weekend in Carson City
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 1:39pm

Calling all wing lovers, the Great International Chicken Wing Society presents Carson City’s first Wing-Off at Carson Station Casino, Friday through Sunday. Check out the latest Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau blog for details and go here for a list of happenings through the month of October.

IHOP shooting victim tells her story
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 10:18am

It has been three weeks since an gunman openend fire inside of the Carson City IHOP restaurant. Now, one of the National Guard members who was shot while having breakfast with friends talks about how she is recovering from the incident. Cait Kelley, 25, started Sept. 6 like any other day - that is until she got work and found out there would be a meeting at IHOP.

Carson City man arrested for allegedly choking wife, DUI
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 9:42am

Michael Mathew Cearley, 51, was arrested Tuesday evening near the intersection of F Street and Winnie Lane following a report that he choked his spouse.

South Lake Tahoe soldier dies in Afghanistan
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 8:38am

U.S. Army Spc. Garrett Fant, 21, a 2008 graduate of South Tahoe High School, died on Sept. 26 in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Army has not sent an official notice of his death but it has been confirmed through the news organization KSAL out of Kansas. Fant's mother is Julia Towle Farell of South Lake Tahoe.

New member of governor's cabinet drew two state paychecks
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 7:32am

The newly appointed director of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation held down two state jobs last fiscal year, earning almost as much as the governor.

Frank Woodbeck, who will join Gov. Brian Sandoval’s cabinet Monday, was, from July 2010 to March, both the full-time Southern Nevada director of the state’s Commission on Economic Development and a paid contract consultant to the state on “green jobs” training, according to records obtained by the Las Vegas Sun.

Taxable sales up, but not in Carson City
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 3:01am

Taxable sales for July were up in all but three Nevada counties, and Carson City was one of the three that didn't see a gain.The reason: a nearly 18 percent drop in automotive sales, the capital's ...

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