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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 4:00am

Buoyed by double-digit performances in its three largest sales tax categories, Carson City's June taxable sales finished the fiscal year 8.3 percent ahead of fiscal 2010.June numbers alone were up ...

Monday, August 29, 2011 - 9:36pm

RENO- Aces are one win away from punching their first ticket ever into the Pacific Coast League Playoffs. The Fresno Grizzlies come into town for a four game series. With Reno having a seven game lead over second place Tacoma and only eight games left to play, the Aces have all but wrapped up their spot in the playoffs. All it would take is an Aces win or a Tacoma loss.

Well, it happened, the Aces beat the Grizzles 5-2 on Monday night for their first ever playoff berth.

Monday, August 29, 2011 - 5:29pm

A Carson City man was arrested early Saturday morning after he allegedly had a juvenile female in his vehicle hide 22 grams of methamphetamine in her bra.

According to the arrest report, deputies were in the Carson River Road area checking out a report of a possible homicide. A woman reported that she and her friend were hitchhiking, and ended up at an abandoned house in the area with two male subjects. The woman said she ran away after hearing a gunshot, fearing that her friend had been killed.

Monday, August 29, 2011 - 2:36pm

William Kelly Jones, 54, was arrested Friday evening after employees at Western Nevada College reported that they saw the suspect viewing what looked like child pornography on one of the library's public access computers, Carson City authorities report.

Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 4:01am

Long before he was a decorated fighter pilot, a five-term member of Congress or a governor of Nevada, Jim Gibbons worked in the early 1970s as an exploration geologist.And like many young geologist...

Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 4:01am

In the wake of complaints about Carson City's tourism bureau by some hotel and motel operators, others have come to the agency's defense, saying it is not only responsive but on the right track in ...

Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 4:01am

With the line of voters stretched down the hall and out into the lobby for more than two hours Saturday morning, Carson City Clerk-Recorder Alan Glover said he was pleasantly surprised by the tu...

Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 4:01am

The Board of Supervisors will consider spending $12,000 from the Redevelopment Agency to support the Ghost Walk this year.On June 6, the Redevelopment Authority Citizens Committee recommended fundi...

Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 4:01am

Felony charges were filed Friday against former Carson City emergency room physician Richard Conte in connection with the 2002 slayings of Carter Elliott, 48, and Timothy Robertson, 25, of Conwa...

Friday, August 26, 2011 - 11:13pm

A boil-water order was lifted for Indian Hills residents on Friday night after a second test came back clean, the Record-Courier reports. Go here for the story and here for the official statement from Indian Hills GID.