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The - editorial staff recently won six awards in the Suburban Newspapers of America 2010 editorial contest.Reporters Sandi Hoover and Brian Duggan won first place in the best continuing coverage ca...

A man and his 8-year-old daughter were killed after a Friday afternoon three-vehicle accident on Highway 50 East at Kit Kat Drive in Mound House. According to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan L...

The Carson City Planning Commission will consider this week a special use permit request from the Carson City School District and Carson City Parks and Recreation Department to allow the constructi...

A light sprinkle throughout the morning didn't dampen the spirits of Earth Day enthusiasts who cheerfully cleaned up three areas of Carson City Saturday.The event is sponsored annually by the Ca...

The deadline that will define the remaining non-budgetary issues for lawmakers to deal with this session hits Tuesday.By the close of business Tuesday, all bills without an exemption must clear ...

RENO - Matt Gardner is enjoying a season that pitchers normally can only dream about."So far so good," smiled the Nevada Wolf Pack relief pitcher after Saturday's 8-3 victory over the New Mexico St...

A 12-year-old girl has died, bringing to two people the number killed in a Friday afternoon three-vehicle accident on Highway 50 East at Kit Kat Drive in Mound House. According to Nevada Highway...

An 8-year-old girl died overnight after an accident on Highway 50 east of Carson City in Mound House on Friday afternoon, which also claimed the life of her father, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports today.

The girl's identity has not been released. Her father, David James Melendrez, 30, of Carson City died at the scene of the accident. The condition of a young boy, 3, also inside the car with his sister, and his father Melendrez, is not known at this time, said Trooper Dan Lopez.

It's difficult to discern if Republicans are doing anything to solve our economic problems. The Republican governors have an ideological agenda and are attacking unions, teachers and public employe...

LAKE TAHOE - An unprecedented plan to return Lake Tahoe to historic clarity levels has moved one step closer to reality.The California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday approved the La...

--Senate mulls cuts to higher educationApril, 22 2011 11:45 pm MST...

--Shade Tree Council hosts the annual Arbor Day celebrationApril, 22 2011 11:38 pm MST...

Carson CityThe following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent unless proven guilty in court:* Miguel Lopez, 38, a custodian from Carson City, was arrested at 12:4...

The political scramble began in earnest Friday to fill the anticipated vacancy in Nevada's 2nd Congressional District should the governor appoint, as expected, incumbent Rep. Dean Heller to succ...

LAKE TAHOE - An unprecedented plan to return Lake Tahoe to historic clarity levels has moved one step closer to reality.The California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday approved the La...

The Carson Water Subconservancy District will host a Carson River Watershed tour from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 16 and May 17.The tour will go from the headwaters in Alpine County to the terminus ...

Western Nevada College split its Scenic West Athletic Conference doubleheader against Snow College Friday at the Edmonds Sports Complex, winning the opener 4-2 and dropping the nightcap 9-3.Prior t...

Games between Western Nevada and Southern Nevada are not for the faint of heart. The battles tend to keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time.A year ago, WNC won three of the four home gam...

The Carson Water Subconservancy District will host a Carson River Watershed tour from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 16 and May 17.The tour will go from the headwaters in Alpine County to the terminus ...

The Nevada Senate held a marathon floor session Friday, voting on 64 measures to clear the decks for next week's deadline to get all bills out of their house of origin.The slate of bills that cl...

--One dead, three injured in Mound House accidentApril, 22 2011 11:34 pm MST...

Muscle Powered is once again leading a series of road bike rides along some of the most scenic routes in the area. The rides will start out easy and gradually pick up speed as the season progres...

By Andrew Doughman
CARSON CITY — The Legislature played host to a former director of the CIA yesterday, who came to voice support for a renewable energy bill.
James Woolsey, director of the CIA between 1993 and 1995, said the passage of the bill is a matter of national security.
Senate Bill 184 would establish a “feed-in tariff” program in Nevada, which would allow small-scale solar, wind, geothermal and other energy producers to “feed in” their energy to the grid.

By Sean Whaley
CARSON CITY – After a lengthy hearing in the Assembly today on what several witnesses said were the catastrophic effects of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget recommendations for higher education, Republican members held firm with the executive branch in a series of funding votes.

At least one person is dead and two children are seriously injured after a three-vehicle accident this afternoon east of Carson City on Highway 50 at Mound House, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports.

The accident happened at the intersection of the highway and Kit Kat Lane shortly before 4 this afternoon. Two children were taken by helicopter to Renown Medical Center with life threatening injuries, said NHP Sgt. Chuck Allen.

By Andrew Doughman
CARSON CITY – Nevada’s rural Republican legislators are struggling to defend the governor’s budget that cuts their communities.
Democrats have been showcasing cuts to the rural counties in order to convince rural Republican legislators that a vote for tax increases is a vote to mitigate the harm to their districts.
Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said that rural counties are already “cut to the bone,” and in many cases could lose all that they have left.

CARSON CITY – As Gov. Brian Sandoval today said it is premature to speculate on who he will appoint to replace GOP U.S. Senator John Ensign, Democrats in the Nevada Legislature said they will seek a resolution urging a “fair, open, and transparent process for appointing a temporary replacement.”

PRESS RELASE — Is 35 minutes of travel time worth up to $100 in value-added savings at South Lake Tahoe?

South Lake Tahoe lodging providers are offering value-added deals to make the time pass more quickly as a detour for Highway 50 over Echo Summit will divert traffic for about two weeks.

By Elizabeth Crum / Nevada News Bureau
With yesterday’s preemptive, hastily announced resignation, Senator John Ensign’s graceless fall from grace continued.

In a recent study with potentially broad implications, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have discovered how low vitamin D levels lead to atherosclerosis in diabetics. According to an article in the August 25, 2009, issue of Circulation (available online), the mechanism centers around the macrophages, specialized immune cells that eat cholesterol.

From left: Tim Milligan, the general manager of Capital Ford, Heidi Fettic, president of Carson City Little League, and Dana Whaley, general manager of Dick Campagni's Carson Toyota and Scion st...

RENO - Backers of a broad proposal to expand a nuclear-waste dump site in Nevada criticized the Obama administration Thursday for paying lip service to the nuclear industry while ignoring the ne...

A former Storey County Sheriff's deputy has filed a lawsuit against Storey County and former Sheriff Jim Miller alleging he was fired for refusing to falsify paperwork, engage in horseplay and for ...

The Carson City Fire Department started conducting training exercises inside the old, abandoned home on Stewart and Telegraph streets Thursday. The training will continue today and next Monday a...

Carson City will continue to use a cost-allocation process - although slightly modified - for charging indirect costs to the city's Quality of Life special revenue fund, officials decided in a spli...

The Capital City Arts Initiative Board of Directors announced Thursday that long-time Carson City economic development leader Joe McCarthy will become the organization's executive director begin...

By the first day of school next year, Silver State Charter School should be operating at its new location on Mallory Way."We're delighted," said Steve Knight, superintendent and founder of the scho...

The head of the Nevada Corrections Association has called for an audit of the Nevada Department of Corrections over the plan to shut down Nevada State Prison in Carson City.Gene Columbus sent a let...

Carson City water and sewer customers will likely see a hike in their bills this summer.Sewer rates are expected to go up 14 percent, and water rates will rise 5 percent, said Finance Director Nick...

Carson High didn't need any seventh-inning theatrics against Reed this time around.The Senators exploded for seven first-inning runs and rolled to a 13-3 five-inning win over the Raiders Thursday n...

The Douglas baseball team fell back early and never got back into it Thursday afternoon, losing 11-1 at Galena.Douglas surrendered four runs in each of the first two innings to the power-hitting Gr...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... Did the Nevada Wolf Pack football team find its quarterback this spring? None of the three candidates (Tyler Lantrip, Cody Fajardo, Mason Magleby) was amazing...

--CHUCK MUTH: Republicans' mixed bag: Senate prospects better, House prospects worseApril, 22 2011 12:35 am MST...

We think that reusing, reducing and recycling materials would have appealed to the early pioneers.We know that the early farmers and ranchers were conservationists. They didn't have a choice, they ...

Harry Meyer, 12, of Carson City trains in Canada for snowboard competitions. He competed last weekend in the USA Snowboard Association's free ride competition in Copper Mountain, Colo., in the h...

The head of the Nevada Corrections Association has called for an audit of the Nevada Department of Corrections over the plan to shut down Nevada State Prison in Carson City.Gene Columbus sent a ...

A donated old home across from the Carson Nugget became an ideal training and staging area for Carson City firefighters today.
The Carson Nugget provided fire personnel an opportunity they seldom get, which is to train inside a home that is already set to be destroyed. In the Nugget's case it was a old gray outbuilding located at the southeast corner of the casino’s property.
Over the next few days firefighters will be given the opportunity to work though training exercises that involve both smoke and fire, including stints like this afternoon's that involve life-saving measures.

By Andrew Doughman
RENO – President Barack Obama highlighted Nevada’s renewable energy sector today with a visit to the heat-to-energy company ElectraTherm, in northern Nevada.
In front of a backdrop of “green machines” Obama touted plans to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil companies in favor of providing incentives for renewable energy companies.

(AP) - Rep. Shelley Berkley said "jobs, jobs, jobs" is her top priority in Congress and that creating them will take investments in education, infrastructure and renewable energy."These are not ...

Like any 16-year-old girl who has just lost a pet, Megan Conroy was devastated when her cat Zeppelin went missing more than six years ago.Megan, now 23, suspects someone stole the cat from her f...

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