Beginning today through July 29, Heavenly Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe is showing some love to its loyal Facebook community and redefining the term “yard sale” by giving away 100 ski and board prizes in two weeks.

Fareed Zakaria is a TV talk show who knows the complex world of economics, the Mideast and international politics. His book "The Post-American World, Release 2.0," paints a world where the United States is no longer the sole superpower. Not that superpowers are measured in size of armies but rather in economic sense.
Zakaria writes well and with a tremendous fund of knowledge, and while he paints a grim picture for the USA, he doesn't write the country off.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will begin a 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.
The following activities are expected as a result of the project, with nightly lane closures occurring from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m.

By approving about $85,000 last week for professional design services, officials have set in motion plans to build a new animal shelter in Carson City to replace the aging 50-year-old facility.T...

A concert featuring Jason Castro of American Idol fame will help offset the costs of a trip for a cancer-stricken girl through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.Carson City's Jake Mercer, 16, is helpin...

The 14th annual Senior Follies production, "Let's Go to the Movies - From Broadway to Hollywood," will be presented Saturday, July 23 and Sunday, July 24 at the Carson City Community Center.The eve...

Pay increases for Northern Nevada workers are creeping back toward pre-recession levels, and raises for management and professional workers are leading the way.A survey conducted by the Nevada Asso...

Food manufacturers and processors who operate on tight margins increasingly look to low-cost Northern Nevada as the site for new operations.The sector already is a growing part of the manufactur...

Silverada Little League of Dayton captured the 10-11 District 3 all-star tournament in Elko on Thursday night.Silverada was undefeated in the tournament and beat Ruby Mountain by a score of 15 -1 i...

Donovan Osborne was 8 years old when he saw his first live baseball game at Candlestick Park."I was a Giants fan growing up," he said, sipping on a cool drink at Starbucks earlier this week. "I wen...

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) - Tiger Woods' ex-swing coach believes the former No. 1 player can win the five majors he needs to pass Jack Nicklaus' record of 18. Hank Haney says it's just a matter of Woods...

As 25-year-old party girl Casey Anthony walks out of an Orlando, Fla., jail today, she'll already be thinking about her new career - making money off the unexplained death of her precious 2 1/2-yea...

Fire crews have knocked down a 123-acre blaze that started late Saturday morning near the Carson City Rifle and Pistol Range off Flint Drive near the landfill.
Called the Rifle Fire, flames and smoke that billowed through the eastern edge of Carson City were extinguished after several agencies, helicopters and air tankers attacked the fire head-on through the afternoon and into the evening reports the Sierra Front Interagency Dispatch Center.
An air tanker was taken off the fire and some equipment was moved out of the area after 5 p.m., said Helen Frazier of the dispatch center.

A Las Vegas man was killed Friday afternoon mountain biking in Spooner Park.According to Carson City Sheriff's Deputy Bob Motamenpour, Daniel Otter, 50, was with a group of friends descending a tra...

A circa-1879 Clapp & Jones steam-powered fire engine will be fired up as part of this weekend's firemen's muster activities in Virginia City, offering a unique opportunity to see a rare piece of...

Treasurer Kate Marshall issued a report Friday saying she has raised nearly a quarter-million dollars for her congressional race in the first three months of the campaign.Marshall, a Democrat, is r...

After a nearly three-hour search Friday night, police located the body of a man believed to have torched his Garnet Way home earlier that morning. Sheriff Ken Furlong said officers found Robert ...

The suspect who fired a single gun shot tonight in the area of an arson fire early this morning on Garnet Way and Duck Hill has been found dead.
The gunshot was heard around 7 p.m., and authorities spent more than two hours searching for the suspect, Robert McCleary, who was wanted for questioning after reportedly setting his home on fire and leaving surreptitious messages.

CARSON CITY – Efforts to resolve Nevada’s redistricting impasse remain a work in progress after a proposal floated Tuesday by a Carson City judge to use county election officials to draw new legislative and congressional lines ran into some opposition.
The job of redrawing Nevada’s political lines has fallen to District Judge James Todd Russell after two Democrat-approved redistricting plans were vetoed by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Sandoval vetoed the measures after concluding the proposals did not follow the federal Voting Rights Act.

A 10-year-old boy died from injuries sustained in a single vehicle rollover accident on Thursday eight miles south of Carson CIty in Douglas County, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports. The boy and the driver of the SUV were taken by Care Flight where the child later died of his injuries at a Reno hospital.

The boy, Felix Vargas, was in the SUV with seven others when it rolled over, with the boy being thrown from the vehicle, said NHP Trooper Dan Lopez.

Fire investigators and Carson City Sheriff's detectives are on scene of a house fire on Garnet Way that destroyed a home and garage.The fire was reported at 4:20 a.m. and destroyed a home, garag...

Carson City authorities remain on the scene of a fire which destroyed a home early this morning near the intersection of Garnet Way and Ruby Lane. According to Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, a search both on and off the property is being conducted for the homeowner.
It is not known where owner Robert McCleary is at, but given the suspicious nature of the fire and the possibility that it was intentionally set, the homeowner is a person of interest, Furlong said.
"We are still sifting through the debris," he said.

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .Don't know what to expect out of this year's Nevada Wolf Pack football team? You're not alone. No Colin Kaepernick, no Dontay Moch, no Vai Taua, no Virgil Gr...

A virtual who's who of Nevada judicial, legal and political leaders turned out Thursday to attend services for Cameron Batjer.A total of 283 people crowded the First Presbyterian Church on Musse...