A run of eight unanswered points over the final 2 minutes, 30 seconds lifted the Carson High freshman boys basketball team to a 50-43 Sierra League victory at home against Damonte Ranch on Tuesday
RENO – Those charged with overseeing Nevada’s system of higher education heard several scenarios today if the current state budget crisis requires cuts of 22 percent, from closing campuses to huge
No, not against existing libraries per se. Just how they’re used, by whom and the costs. Would rather the ones we have be upgraded than whole new complexes be built.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am an avid reader, a book hoarder, a library employee, a graduate student in a Library and Information Science program (delivered almost exclusively online!),
In these days of financial constraint and economic hardship it is difficult at best for a community to pony up large sums of money for a project that won’t give you an immediate return on your mone
We’ve gotten some comments over the past 24 hours that were honest expressions of frustration and disappointment about how things are going in this country, and in Carson City.
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A woman with two kids in the car rounded a curve and took out a high voltage power line pole, shutting down traffic in both directions on Stewart south of Roop.
Some alternative ways of raising money. Nevada has a tax system that is far harder on low to middle class taxpayers than just about any state in the country.
CARSON CITY – An annual financial report released today by state Controller Kim Wallin examining the 2009 fiscal year that ended June 30 details just how difficult the national recession has been o
A Carson City man who was angry at a woman for allegedly stealing money from him and who left her bleeding from a gunshot wound in her back in Brunswick Canyon last summer was sentenced Monday to 20 y
A hit and run driver headed south on Stewart and Roop left a power pole sheared off at its base, leaving the pole broken but still standing, held up by the high voltage wires running through it.
Look Nevadans the only way to relieve this burden is to raise taxes-plain and simple; laying off those who work is not the answer-that creates more stress Mr.Gibbons-I know this is NV but this is n
As we race headlong into a new and glorius future, pause a minute before you toss that copy of The Sun Also Rises onto the trash heap of technology along with buggy whips and johnson rods.
After ascertaining that well over 90% of our viewers were here on the internet, rather than on Charter Cable 18, we decided to drop the TV and concentrate on better serving our readers and viewers on
Even though the Carson High wrestling team saw its undefeated season and streak of 23 straight dual meet victories come to an end, coach Tim McCarthy had no regrets about the way the Senators perf
Jake Waardenburg was perfect for almost seven innings and that was more than enough for the Western Nevada College baseball team to beat one of the top pitchers among Arizona community colleges.<
All points with the exception of Reid’s money are well taken, but as brutal and painful as it may sound salaries and fringe benefits make up a large percent of state budgets be they state agencies,
Exactly what I was thinking since last Monday, when the Los Angeles Times reported that last Christmas – for the first time ever – Amazon sold more books in downloadable electronic form than as tr
There’s nothing worse than being the last soldier shot in a war. Likewise, there’s nothing worse than Carson City taxpayers spending millions on the “last library.” Face it, things change.
If there are no ability to adjust revenue, then layoffs, furloughs, salary reductions or some combination thereof will have to be in the mix to address the state budget shortfall.
College of Southern Nevada baseball coach Tim Chambers has never lacked for confidence and with arguably his most talented team ever, there's no surprise that Chambers has high expectations for h