CARSON CITY — On Wednesday, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak announced two major updates on Nevada’s COVID-19 vaccination timeline. On March 22, vaccination opportunities will be available to all Nevadans aged 16 and older with underlying health conditions, as laid out in the State’s COVID-19 Vaccination Playbook.

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting Wednesday, March 17, 2021 that there are 21 new cases and 51 additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad County region. This brings the total number of cases to 11,509, with 9,964 recoveries and 209 deaths; 1,336 cases remain active.

CARSON CITY — Despite successful COVID-19 vaccination rollouts, notable reduction in active cases and the allowable capacity for large gatherings increased, the Nevada Indian Commission will cancel the 2021 Stewart Father’s Day Pow Wow.

Criminals often call and represent themselves as agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Social Security Administration (SSA) and threaten to freeze assets or claim your social security benefits have been compromised.

A 34-year-old Carson City man was arrested Tuesday for a misdemeanor violation of suspended sentence warrant issued Nov. 24, 2020 out of Carson City Justice Court. Bail: $1,000.

CARSON CITY — The Governor’s Office of Economic Development has received $2,049,574 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program to be used for COVID-related projects in rural parts of Nevada.

UPDATE: North Carson Street is open in both directions.
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UPDATE 7:12PM: The suspect, a male adult, is in custody, according to Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. He was taken to Washoe County Jail where he faces multiple charges. His name has not been released. A pit bull, which was also in the vehicle, was taken to the Nevada Humane Society.
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UPDATE 6PM: According to Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, law enforcement is attempting to negotiate with the driver, who is sitting in the vehicle armed with a gun.
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UPDATE 5:38PM: Additional law enforcement and SWAT has been called to the scene as the suspect driver, believed to be armed, is refusing to give up. Motorists and people are advised to stay clear of the area. North Carson Street is closed in both directions near the incident scene. Northbound and southbound I-580 has been reopened.
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UPDATE 4:57 PM: The vehicle pursuit ended on North Carson Street near Silver Oak Drive and Medical Parkway where the suspect vehicle hit a power pole after losing its tires from spikes thrown down by NHP. The suspect, in a red pickup, was not giving into commands to get out of the vehicle and is surrounded by law officers.
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I-580 in both the southbound and northbound lanes near Bowers Mansion was closed Tuesday afternoon due to an incident involving a driver who failed to yield and was seen with a gun.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies were called Tuesday afternoon to a vehicle rollover on College Parkway near Gs Richards Boulevard.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Education has released a video message from State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of COVID-19-related school building closures.

Though vaccines are rolling out throughout our region and businesses are reopening, we haven't completely returned to the level of pre-COVID festivities. There are still events both in-person (masks required!) and online for you to celebrate America's most well-known, sort-of-Irish Saint.

It was the Deadline Day that wasn’t. Despite expectations that floor sessions on Monday — the 43rd day of the session and deadline for individual legislator bill introductions — would stretch late into the night to accommodate numerous bills, legislative leaders suspended rules and allowed the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s legal division to keep working throughout the week.

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Are you a frustrated artist? Do you have a beautiful image in your head and find that you just can’t put it down successfully onto paper or canvas? Why struggle, when you could become a Bodacious Brushcrusher.

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting 35 new COVID-19 cases and 176 recoveries in the Quad County area for the period of Saturday, March 13 to Monday, March 15, 2021. No deaths were reported.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies responded Monday afternoon to a vehicle rollover in the 1400 block of Parkland Avenue near Cardinal Way. No serious injuries were reported.

Carson City Health and Human Services is happy to announce the following groups are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine:

CARSON CITY — Watershed Wednesdays made a splash after its first two weeks with more than 100 viewers and counting. In the third session of the forum, March 17, the Carson River Coalition goes back to basics, revisiting its original 1998 mandate to protect and conserve floodplains in the Carson River Watershed.

Assemblywoman Susie Martinez (D-Las Vegas) isn’t really a cat person. Her daughter is allergic — something she found out while visiting her sister, a cat owner, and her daughter’s eyes got so swollen she “looked like Rocky (Balboa).”

A man was arrested early Saturday for suspicion of misdemeanor DUI and failure to maintain a traffic lane after having told a deputy he was going to call for a ride service and then later seen leaving in his vehicle, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report.

The 2021 Jazz & Beyond Music and Art Festival this August will include the third annual Carson City Open Studios Tour on Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, August 22, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at multiple studios throughout Carson City.

The secretary of state’s office wants to transition from a county-led to a state-led top-down voter registration system that could speed up the time-consuming process of verifying that people who take advantage of a new same-day voter registration law haven’t already voted in the same election.

CARSON CITY — One of the fortuitous features of being a student at Western Nevada College is that so many people look out for you and help you in pursuit of your higher education and professional goals.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 15-21, 2021. Closures are expected at the following locations due to road and utility work:

What just happened sounds like Science Fiction, and what should come to mind? A famous and terrifying story now that life is beginning to get back to normal again? For the past 12 months, the entire world has been in a unified and sometimes desperate struggle to find out what to do about the foreign invasion of the human body.

Birdies are chirping, Eagles are soaring and the grass gets greener every day. Spring is right around the corner and for those seniors who love golf and competing with their fellow golfers we have just the club for you.