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Nevada's unemployment rate was 12.1 percent in May - nearly 3 percent from its 14.9 percent peak in December.But the raw rate - not adjusted for seasonal factors - actually increased two tenths com...

For two days next month, July 9-10, Nevada will be the center of the conservative universe, as the fourth annual Conservative Leadership Conference convenes in Las Vegas - including the next in an ...

A Carson City man was taken to the Reno trauma center Thursday afternoon after plowing his vehicle into a block wall, two cars, a power pole and a fire hydrant on Carson Street. Josh Harper, 23,...

The Board of Regents was told Thursday plans to sell the Carlin Fire Science Academy to the federal government for conversion to the eastern Nevada National Guard center are moving forward both in ...

By the time lawmakers left town earlier this month, Carson City ended up taking a $1.5 million annual hit in transferred services, city lobbyist Mary Walker told the officials Thursday."Some of the...

Mining companies will no longer get tax breaks on their fire insurance, marketing costs and severance packages after Nevada's governor signed a law expected to bring the state $24 million in the ne...

City officials agreed Thursday in an addendum to their 2002 lease agreement with the Carson City Municipal Golf Corporation to allow them to pay $30,000 for fiscal year 2011 rather than the $120,00...

The Board of Regents voted reluctantly on Thursday to take away the registration, application and admission fee breaks Nevada seniors now get when they take college classes.Anyone 62 or older who i...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . OK, yes, I have to admit it. I was thrilled to see the Miami Heat and LeBron James lose the NBA Finals. I didn't care who won it as long as the Heat and LeB...

Carson City Little League has chosen its all-star rosters for post-season play which begins later this month.The 11-12-year-old team will be coached by Kinkade DeJoseph, Bill Gall and Kevin Krebs. ...

ALAMEDA - The Neptune Pearl scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh to wipe out a 2-1 deficit and beat the Nevada Bulllets 6-3 in a Far West Collegiate League baseball game Thursday night at ...

For more than three hours, a parade of witnesses ranging from former Assemblyman John Carpenter of Elko to housewives and mothers pleaded with the Board of Regents Thursday to protect funding for t...

CARSON CITY – A bill allowing the state Treasurer to invest up to $50 million in education trust funds to support economic diversification efforts and generate more money for public schools was signed into law today by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Concerns had been expressed about the legality of Senate Bill 75 after it had been amended in the Senate, but Treasurer Kate Marshall said today the final version of the measure restored the original language.

CARSON CITY – A bill allowing the state Treasurer to invest up to $50 million in education trust funds to support economic diversification efforts and generate more money for public schools was signed into law today by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

You can help the Senior Center win a new truck for their Meals on Wheels program. To vote, go to Toyota's Facebook page, click on "Toyota 100 Cars for Good," click on “finalist” and go to “C” for “Carson City Senior Citizens Center,” where you can view the center's video. Only votes cast today count, so go and vote now.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting kicks off at 8:30 a.m. The full agenda is here, and you can watch the live video here.

Among the issues up for discussion is a proposal to change the lease agreement for the Eagle Valley Golf Course to reduce the annual payments due to the city by Carson City Municipal Golf Corporation, the entity that runs the facility. Instead of the current $120,000 annual payment, the reduction would call for CCMGC to pay $30,000 this year and 2012, $60,000 in 2013, and return to paying $120,000 per year through 2029.

In the recent past, operators of two privately owned golf courses have expressed their displeasure with the city for subsidizing the operations at Eagle Valley, creating what they view as unfair competition.

Also on the agenda is approval for distributing $108,623 in Redevelopment funds for a variety community events including Nevada Day and the downtown farmers market.

RENO – For the three leading Republican candidates seeking the Congressional District 2 seat vacated with the appointment of Dean Heller to the U.S. Senate, it was all about qualifications and experience in a debate held here Wednesday.
State Republican Party Chairman Mark Amodei, a former state senator, state Sen. Greg Brower, appointed to fill the seat formerly held by retired Sen. Bill Raggio, and retired Navy commander Kirk Lippold, faced off ahead of a GOP meeting Saturday in Sparks that could determine which candidate will get the party nod.

George Nelson's foray into auto mechanics came out of the necessity of having to fix the equipment on his father's Minnesota farm in the 1960s. As a machinist in the Marine Corps during the Viet...

RENO - It took nearly all of an hour-long debate for three Nevada Republican congressional hopefuls to find something to disagree about Wednesday night, but the gloves came off the last five min...

Heavy precipitation this winter and the runoff its created has Lyon County officials concerned about flooding. According to Rob Loveberg, Lyon County Emergency Management coordinator, the mainstem ...

Carson City Fire Chief Stacey Giomi said he has sent four firefighters and an engine to Arizona to help with wild fires there."This is not uncommon," Giomi said. "The last three years have been ...

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday the effort by House Republicans to revive the Yucca Mountain project are going nowhere.And as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, he has considerable say ove...

Regent Ron Knecht has asked the interim president of UNR to help find some one-time money to restore cuts made to the Agriculture Department's Cooperative Extension service.Knecht said he planned t...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday the GOP's "reckless" plan to end Medicare would deny Nevada seniors quality care while costing them thousands more each year.In a phone int...

Being billed as a place where parks, trails and open space meet, the recently completed Fulstone Wetlands project offers a .6-mile path around the site, through the wetlands observation area."We...

One of the big experiments for Carson High's summer baseball team has been using wood bats in preparation for the less lively bats that will be used next spring.There have been some good games and ...

Author and historian Robert W. Ellison will present the lecture "Long Beard: Warren Wasson, Indian Agent & U.S. Marshall" at the Nevada State Museum 7-8 p.m. Thursday, June 23.The lecture is bas...

Greetings from Washington, D.C., where they don't seem to have gotten the word that the nation is in a deep recession. The restaurants are full, traffic is horrendous, construction is booming, and ...

In the final hours of the 2011 Nevada State Legislative Session, Senate Bill 271 passed, bringing with it opportunities for the two states that border Lake Tahoe to reinvigorate the spirit of compr...

Lisa Lee from Advocates to End Domestic Violence talks about the Taste of Downtown event happening on June 18 in Carson City.

Tioga Road will open for the season on Saturday, June 18 at 8 a.m. for all vehicle traffic, Yosemite National Park officials announced Wednesday.

Tioga Road, which is accessed by Highway 395 at Lee Vining in Mono County, Calif. and is bound by both sides by State Highway 120, is the popular east-west crossing of the Sierra Nevada.

CARSON CITY – The Humane Society of the United States says Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Legislature enacted several important measures to strengthen Nevada’s protections for animals in the just-ended 2011 session.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today signed four public education reform bills into law, saying Nevada has “made great advancements on behalf of our schoolchildren.”
Sandoval signed Assembly Bills 225 and 229, and Senate Bills 197 and 212 into law.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today signed four public education reform bills into law, saying Nevada has “made great advancements on behalf of our schoolchildren.”

SILVER SPRINGS - Despite adopting a motion last month to adopt a four-day school week next year, the Lyon County School Board voted against the implementation plan Tuesday night. "I still think it ...

The following people appeared in Carson City District Court this week:* Christopher Lash, 27, pleaded not guilty to battery with a deadly weapon with substantial bodily harm. Lash allegedly hit ano...

Northern Nevada Development Authority is bringing President Obama's Dream It Do It Initiative to the Silver State.Working with The Manufacturing Institute and the National Association of Manufactur...

The Carson City Senior Center needs some help and all one has to do is vote for them on Facebook. According to director Janice McIntosh, they have made it as a finalist in Toyota's 100 Cars for ...

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday signed into law the five pieces of legislation that implement the state budget for the coming two years.They are the K-12 education bill, the Appropriations and Autho...

Gov. Brian Sandoval has vetoed two more pieces of legislation send to his desk by the Nevada Legislature.Senate Bill 207, he said, provides the Labor Commissioner with duplicative and unnecessary a...

In what may be the first example of a politician reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding Nevada's restriction on politicians voting when they have an apparent conflict, Gov. Brian Sando...

The Tahoe Rim Trail Association is looking for volunteers for its trail building workdays at Stateline for the Daggett Summit Trail Project.Workdays are Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m....

Drew Moreland enjoyed probably the best game of his high school varsity career Tuesday night.Moreland, a senior-to-be, allowed just two first-inning singles, struck out four and went 3-for-3 at the...

Members of the Nevada National Guard, Nevada Air Guard, and civilians celebrated Flag Day and the 236th birthday of the United States Army at a ceremony held at the Veteran's Memorial Wall on th...

Researchers suggest that the two strongest human motivators are love and fear. We all have fears that we carry around everyday. If you are one of the millions of Americans who is a caregivers then ...

Thousands of people will fill the streets of Carson City Saturday evening for the 18th annual Taste of Downtown, but the weekend fun actually starts Friday night with the annual Father's Day Pow...

This week grocery shopping, I decided to part with my usual organized self and go without a list. Scary, I know. I am not abandoning my usually weekly menu planning, I am just doing it a little ...

This column addresses topics related to the health of our community.This Sunday, families across the country will celebrate Father's Day. Part of being a good dad means trying to stay healthy, and ...

Here's some of what used to be grown in Nevada - hay and grain for horses and mules, flour, potatoes, butter, cheese, milk and beef, fresh vegetables, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, apple...

Pyramid Lake, which is located about 30 miles north of Reno-Sparks, will close on Thursday, June 30 to fishing for Lahontan cutthroat trout.
That large, desert lake (roughly the same surface size as Lake Tahoe) has a three-month trout closure, each year, from July 01 to September 30. On Oct. 1, it will re-open for the 2011-2012 cutthroat fishing season.

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