CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation will host information booths to gather public feedback on initial concepts for future traffic improvements to U.S. 50 at Lake Tahoe’s East Shore.

The first week of spring 2022 will usher in above seasonal temperatures around Carson City, western Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin, according to the National Weather Service.

The Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team may continue burning piles this week around the Lake Tahoe Basin, conditions and weather permitting. These prescribed fire operations are expected to continue as conditions allow to help land managers reduce hazardous fuels that can feed unwanted wildfires. Smoke will be present.

This year, Lyon County will have a full slate of candidates for local offices. The County Commission has two seats open in the 2022 General Election.

CARSON CITY — The Office of the Labor Commissioner reminds Nevada employers that the minimum wage will increase effective July 1, 2022. Assembly Bill 456, passed by the 2019 Nevada Legislature, increases the minimum wage in increments of 75 cents annually through 2024.

Carson High School Career and Technical Education HOSA-Future Health Professionals had two state champions at the State Leadership Conference last week at the Nugget Resort in Sparks, Nev., March 13-16. McKenna Budd took state for Clinical Nursing and Alicia Cortes Solis for Cultural Diversities & Disparities in Healthcare.

This Saturday March 26 @ 3PM, Wylder Resort Hope Valley continues its history series with a Chautauqua style presentation, “Those that Survived.”

CARSON CITY — To commemorate Saturday's National Quilting Day, The Carson Valley Quilt Guild worked together to create a handmade quilt, special for the first baby born that day at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center.

The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Carson Ranger District urges visitors to be aware of their surroundings, stay out of closed campgrounds and follow warning signs when recreating in the area burned by the 2021 Tamarack Fire near Markleeville in Alpine County, Calif.

Lyon County Sheriff's Office detectives and other law enforcement agencies continue to investigate the March 12 disappearance of 18-year-old Naomi Irion in Fernley.

As every teacher knows, education is a calling, first, and a career, second. At the high school level, imagine having to interact with 150 to 175 students or more every other day. Well, for the regular classroom teacher this can be challenging, but in the first couple weeks of school a relationship develops, and the names of students are solidified.

On Saturday, April 30, 2022 celebrate Carson Animal Services Initiative (CASI) for its 10 years of helping pets in need with a dinner, silent auction, raffle and much more at Casino Fandango.

The event takes place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and includes dinner, wine and music; silent and live auctions; and blackjack tables for raffle drawings.

On Saturday morning, dozens of community members braved the clouds and rain to come together in a grass-roots effort to clear the Saliman walking path of torn landscaping cloth and debris.

The Brewery Arts Center will host another Musicale at The Maizie event on March 26, 2022 at 7pm.

A 25-year-old Carson City woman was arrested around 8 p.m. on Thursday after her 5-year-old son was found walking to his father's house after running away from home.

The State Engineer will hold a public workshop to provide information on Smith and Mason Valleys groundwater rights and current groundwater conditions and will address concerns over drought. The public workshops will be held:

Community partners will plant pinwheels in the legislative lawn Friday, April 1, 2022 to symbolize every child’s right to a safe, healthy, and happy life, and to impress upon the community that child abuse and neglect are serious problems. COVID-19 has increased stress in families across Nevada, and families need the state now more than ever to put them first.

The next meeting of the Carson Valley Art Association is Saturday, March 26, 2022 and will be held at the Minden branch of the Douglas County Library at 1 p.m. Meet artist Louise Noel, silk artist. She will be sharing her knowledge about silk printing and her art. All local practicing and student artists are invited to attend the meetings.

A 51-year-old Carson City man was arrested for felony battery with substantial damage after he broke the ankle of another man during a fight at a N. Carson St. casino.

Just after 8 p.m., deputies were dispatched to a casino in the 500 block of N. Carson St. in reference to two men fighting.

A Missouri man was arrested by Nevada State Police highway troopers in Fernley after allegedly carjacking a vehicle with the victim still inside.

In a phone call, Trooper Charles Caster clarified that the kidnapping victim was not missing Fernley woman Naomi Irion, who has yet to be found.

All congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses across the world are being encouraged to begin holding in-person meetings during the week of April 1.
Narek Ter-Akopyan of Henderson, Nevada, has been attending meetings for more than 20 years and is excited to return to the in-person format he’s come to love. “With the virtual platform, we were seeing things in 2D. When we go back, I’m going to be able to see the friends in 3D and recall what a hug [from them] feels like.”

The Carson City Sheriff's Office is investigating a gasoline theft Thursday where the suspects, who were in two vehicles, drilled a hole in the gas tank of the victim's van as she was inside the vehicle.

As part of the ongoing Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series, a new exhibition, Mojave by Jeff Fulmer, opens at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery on March 31, 2022, and will be on display as a virtual exhibition indefinitely at nevadahumanities.org.

Two were arrested Wednesday for suspicion of felony child abuse neglect/endangerment, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report.