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You're invited to join us this Sunday, August 14th from 2:30pm-4:00pm. Carson Tahoe SPCA is hosting a Kitten Shower for the many adorable kittens we have for adoption. Please stop by if you're looking to add a new furry friend to your family. We will also have our Pups Up For Parole dogs that are looking for new homes. These dogs have been living at the Nevada State Prison undergoing obedience training to help them adapt more easily to their new homes.

Carson City Sheriff's deputies arrested Miguel Angel Sous-Andalon, 23, after he allegedly broke into an apartment in the 700 block of Hot Springs Road early Sunday morning and refused to leave.

According to the arrest report, Sous-Andalon was in a "highly intoxicated state" when he broke into the apartment, laid down on the resident's sofa and refused to leave.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval has appointed Las Vegas financial adviser Ken Wiles to the Economic Forum, a panel of mostly private citizen fiscal experts charged with making tax revenue projections for the state.

Coin collectors and numismatists from all over the country will be flocking to Carson City August 26-27 to purchase the coveted Mint Mark “CC” coins and other collectibles. In fact, the hobby of coin collecting is more popular than ever before, thanks to the high price of gold. Twenty-five dealers will be on hand from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm both Friday and Saturday, giving free appraisals and offering valuable wares to buy, sell, and trade. Fabulous prizes will be raffled off both days, culminating in the Grand Prize Drawing at 3 pm on Saturday.

With the City Center Project's planners back from the drawing board, a citizens' committee will weigh in Monday night on the revamped, reduced but still controversial plan to transform part of d...

CARSON CITY – If a $490,000 grant to plant trees in Clark County public places as part of a federal job-creating stimulus project should be measured by the “greening” of Southern Nevada, then the effort might be considered a modest success.
Thirteen different government and nonprofit entities applied for 1,814 trees for planting at 35 different public areas in Southern Nevada through the grant. A total of 1,541 trees have been provided to the agencies and groups for planting, mostly at schools and parks around the Vegas valley.

The public gathered on the Legislative Plaza on Sunday afternoon to hear STRAZZ, the Strings in the Schools youth jazz ensemble, play a selection of jazz-style favorites. The free concert was sponsored by the Mile High Jazz Band, as a part of their Jazz! Carson City Jazz Festival. The festival runs throughout the month of August, with free events sprinkled throughout the calendar, as well as one paid event taking place at the Bliss Mansion.

For more information on Jazz! Carson City, visit jazzcarsoncity.com, or the events page here on Carson Now.

RENO - Scott Piercy and his family had vacation plans next week to go to Southern California.His wife, Sara, still plans to take their two children but Scott won't be joining them. Instead, he'l...

"The Rise of the Planet of the Apes,' now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, may well be the best of the summer popcorn fare. It is not an extension of the "Apes" series of the 1970s and '80s but the beginning of a new franchise of films. And its primate hand is there for all of us.

Saliman Road remains closed at Robinson Street due to construction of a water transmission line. Detours are marked. The road is expected to remained closed until August 21.

A project to complete a new north-south water transmission line on the east side of Carson City will result in one lane traffic with flagger controls from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekdays for the following roads:

  • Damon Road between Tucker Court and South Edmonds Drive
  • South Lompa Lane south of Edmonds Drive
  • Conte Drive from Valley View Drive to Snyder Avenue

Curator of History, Robert Nylen presents Early Frontier Baseball, at the Nevada State Museum Thursday, August 18, 2011, from 7:00 – 8:00 pm. Note: this lecture is presented one week early due to the coin show.

RENO - Saturday is considered moving day on the PGA Tour. It's a day where players sometimes make dramatic moves up or down the leaderboard.Nevada native Scott Piercy made one of the most dramat...

RENO - John Merrick has been a model of consistency at the Reno-Tahoe Open.In three previous starts, Merrick has never finished outside the top-10. He tied for third in 2010, tied for fifth in 2008...

Like everybody else, presidents have birthdays and have a right to celebrate them and invite others to join them in the festivities. But taking advantage of the occasion to bash the rich and then c...

Even though I'm not a knee-jerk "mining is bad for Nevada" person, I urge the Lyon and Storey county commissions to deny permits for large-scale open pit mining operations in the Comstock Historic ...

With Nevada's economic woes painfully well documented and the state scoring a dismal ranking of 45th in CNBC's recently released "Top States for Business" 2011 survey, one would think that Carson C...

Never content to be "good enough," the library manages to make August interesting and informative for members of the community. Patrons interested in the current economic situation can find free le...

There are a number of meetings in the region this week:* The Carson City Center Advisory Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Sierra Room of the community center, 851 E. William St.* The Cars...

Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology says it's successfully making the transition to an all-volunteer organization after it lost much of its funding."My prediction is that NCET will ...

Eric Juillerat was all set to begin an aggressive rollout of his company's technology to public-sector operators of water and sewage-treatment plants in 2008.But the plans of Juillerat's Raven Tech...

A race through the Nevada desert isn't top of mind for Northern Nevada special events, but the annual Best in the Desert race from Beatty to Dayton packs hotel and motel rooms throughout Reno and C...

With Nevada's economic woes painfully well documented and the state scoring a dismal ranking of 45th in CNBC's recently released "Top States for Business" 2011 survey, one would think that Carson C...

The annual Entrepreneur Expo, one of the signature events of Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, is set for Sept. 16. The sixth annual expo will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Atlan...

The last time the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology published its review of the major mines in Nevada, only a handful were listed in the northwest corner of the state.And none of those mines in Wa...

STATELINE - Though the stars come and go, officials are estimating that $10 million to $20 million stayed in the area after the American Century Championship. "The combination of a major attract...

With the rev of mighty V-8 engines and enough polished chrome to require a good pair of sunglasses, the annual Silver Dollar Car Classic is the capital city's all-out celebration of the American automobile.
Today through Sunday, Mills Park in Carson City turns into a mecca of some of the finest hot rods ever made, with more than 400 restored, tricked-out and souped-up cars and trucks on display under the canopy of dozens of shade trees.

There's plenty of music set for this weekend in Carson City, including jazz lineups in celebration of Jazz! Carson City 2011. Music in the Market continues today, Saturday, through 1 p.m. at the Third and Curry Street Farmer's Market. Meanwhile, Saturday night at plan:b microlounge inside of Sassafras will feature award-winning jazz musician Joe Berry. While on Sunday it is Jazz Picnic in the Park.

Genoans saddled up this week with the third Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival.Town board members approved a contract with the Carson Valley Arts Council to put on the event April 26-29, 2012. The arts...

A yard sale today and Sunday will benefit a Carson City 5-year-old battling brain cancer for the second time. Organizer Kathy Johnson said they've received enough to donations to fill the Eagle's L...

RENO - Notah Begay's future on the PGA Tour looked bright after winning twice in 1999 and 2000.Then came a lower back injury in 2001, and his career went on a downward spiral. Since the 2001 season...

RENO - If you are a follower of the Reno-Tahoe Open, the leaderboard on Friday was jammed with some familiar names.Five past champions - Vaughn Taylor, Will MacKenzie, Steve Flesch, Notah Begay ...

Good news for all you NASCAR Ford fans.Carl Edwards, despite rumors of a big salary and $10 million signing bonus dangled by Gibbs Racing, has renewed his contract with Roush-Fenway Racing. Meanwhi...

The "Always Lost" exhibit is the brainchild of Western Nevada College educators Marilee Swirczek, Don Carlson and Kevin Burns, plus class members from Swirczek's creative writing class. Other North...

Having fielded countless emergency calls for Carson City as a 911 dispatcher over the years, Cindy Merrell is hanging up her phone. "I just think it's time to retire and enjoy life for a little ...

Reading has always been hard for Austin Stock, 8. He never got the hang of "sounding it out," and eventually he stopped trying."I didn't like it because it was hard," he said.But three weeks int...

The Nevada Association of Counties is looking into a possible legal challenge to demand repayment of money the state took from the Indigent Accident Fund.If successful, that would cost the state so...

Genoans saddled up this week with the third Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival.Town board members approved a contract with the Carson Valley Arts Council to put on the event April 26-29, 2012. The arts...

Robert Halstead has been named director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.That agency is responsible for fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear dump in southern Nevada.Halstead replac...

State Controller Kim Wallin told the Nevada Association of Counties on Friday that she has powerful new tools to collect debts owed not only the state but local governments.The new powers given to ...

Full 1/4 mile, outlaw style drag races will be held at RENO FERNLEY RACEWAY on August 12th and 13th. Outlaw Races hearken back to the early days of drag racing before sanctioning organizations and rules. It's "Run What You Brung" and open to all comers. This year’s annual event is called SMOKIN HOT DRAG RACES and expected to attract hundreds of competitors from Reno Nevada and adjacent markets.

More details are surfacing about the recovery of a body from deep water near Rubicon Point on Lake Tahoe's West Shore last week. El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies used a remote operated vehicle t...

With the withdrawal of defending champ Matt Bettencourt, seven past RTO champions remain in this year's field.Two - Chris Riley and Will MacKenzie - shot stellar rounds. Riley shot a 6-under-par 66...

RENO - Nick O'Hern's performance lately has been nothing to write home about - six missed cuts and one withdrawal - in his last 10 tournaments.The left-handed O'Hern, who has never won a PGA TCo...

The civil sexual assault case against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be held in Reno, the Nevada Supreme Court said Thursday in an order rejecting an appeal by the NFL star...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... Worry about whether or not Tyler Lantrip can quarterback the Nevada Wolf Pack if you want to. But you'll only be wasting your time and energy. Lantrip's abili...

The civil sexual assault case against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be held in Reno, the Nevada Supreme Court said Thursday in an order rejecting an appeal by the NFL star...

A feral kitten, weighing less than a pound, is recovering with the Carson Tahoe SPCA after being rescued with third-degree burns from the yard of a home that burned down on July 24.Susan Paul, p...

One of two flower baskets, possibly missing from outside downtown businesses recently, was turned in to the Sheriff's Office on Wednesday evening. Deputy Jessica Rivera said the department got a ca...

Carson City Supervisors gave initial approval Thursday to a series of utility rate hikes, primarily to cover the cost of services dumped on local government by the state.The increases include elect...

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