Carson Now News

Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 3:01am

An evacuation order was lifted at 10 p.m. Saturday for home owners near Geiger Grade (Nevada State Route 341) in Storey County after a wildfire burned more than 500 acres, according to Mark Stru...

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 7:26pm

A tribute to Rosemary Clooney and an ice cream social with live music will kick off a month-jazz extravaganza for the 8th annual Jazz! Carson City Music Festival.

Linda Merrell will perform a jazz tribute to Rosemary Clooney on Sunday, July 31, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. at Sierra Place Senior Living, 1111 W. College Parkway in Carson City.

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 6:06pm

Carson City needs to bring back the race track, plain and simple. Since it has been torn down, the land has been nothing but be a haven for crime activity, sounds like a great trade-off to me. I think it was absurd for the race track to be taken in the first place. Saturday night racing became a summer tradition in Carson City.

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 4:49pm

A fire burning near the border of Storey and Washoe counties in the Geiger Grade area has swelled to more than 500 acres, according to the latest report from Sierra Front Interagency Dispatch Center.
The Bain Street Fire is burning on Nevada Division of Forestry land and has not, at the time, burned any structures, the agency says.

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 2:26pm

A 60-year-old California woman was killed in a crosswalk in the Stateline, Lake Tahoe casino district early Saturday morning, and a 36-year-old man faces felony DUI and possible vehicular manslaughter charges, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports.

Joan Marie Hamrick of Valley Springs, Calif., died from injuries after being hit on Highway 50 in the casino district by a truck at 1:17 a.m. that was driven by David Ray Stephenson, 36, of Discovery Bay, Calif., said Trooper Daniel Lopez. Hamrick was airlifted from Kahle Park to Renown Regional Medical Center where she died Saturday.

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 3:01am

Director of Administration Jeff Mohlenkamp ordered state agencies this week to draw down all the federal funds they are entitled to in case the battle over the debt ceiling isn't resolved by Tuesda...

Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 3:00am

Firefighters work in the rain to extinguish a fire near Territory Road in Storey County on Friday evening. As of 8:15 p.m. the fires in the county had mostly been put out, according to Storey Co...

Friday, July 29, 2011 - 8:44pm

Saliman Road remains closed at Robinson Street due to construction of a water transmission line. Detours are marked. The road is expected to remained closed until August 21.

One lane will be closed in each direction on the Carson City Freeway between the US 50 and Fairview Drive interchanges due to maintenance.

Work will continue on a NDOT project to mill and overlay a section of US 395 from the junction with US 50 (Spooner) in Carson City to south of Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. There will be nightly lane closures occurring from 8:00 p.m. through 6:00 a.m.

Friday, July 29, 2011 - 5:15pm

CARSON CITY – Nevada state Democrats today called on Republican presidential candidates to disclose the names of their campaigns’ major fundraisers – known as bundlers – in the name of transparency.
President Barack Obama on July 15 released his list of major fundraisers, which he also did in 2008. The disclosure is not required by the Federal Elections Commission.

Friday, July 29, 2011 - 4:36pm

Carson City Sheriff deputies arrested Terry David Vickers, 45, Thursday evening after a woman reported that he had beat and strangled her into unconsciousness, and assaulted her with a screwdriver.

According to the arrest report, the victim told deputies that Vickers began the assault Wednesday night when he slapped her at a restaurant on North Carson Street. She said after leaving the restaurant she made contact with some friends and left with them, not returning to the motel room she shared with Vickers until Thursday morning.