Carson City worship band I Am "They" will present two concerts in the area with Christian recording artists Bebo Norman and Nathan Tasker (Australia's 2006 Artist of the Year).Both concerts star...

The Fraternal Order of Police, a nationwide police organization since 1915, established its Northern Nevada Lodge 8 in Carson City last week.Its newly elected President, Carson City sheriff's Deput...

FALLON -- The Carson City District Bureau of Land Management this week gave the OK for up to five geothermal energy plants in Churchill County as well as a new transmission line extending south fro...

DAYTON - Dayton overcame a late rally by Wooster to win 19-17 Friday night. "We didn't tackle very well in this game and that was huge for us," said Dayton coach Rob Turner. "We take a lot of pr...

By Kristi Boosman
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency announced the winners of the Lake Spirit Awards honoring "real people making real progress protecting Lake Tahoe" at their first-ever Community Appreciation Day event held on September 29 at TRPA's office.

Reno Tahoe Comedy presents a fundraiser for Family TIES of Nevada on Saturday, October 8th. Doors open at 4:00pm, show starts at 5:00pm.

Your entertainer for the evening is hypnotist, Dan Kimm and his show, HYPNOT!C. From mild to wild, a little bit whacky to totally amazing (but always hilarious), discover how “On the Count of Three He’ll Make You a Star!”

Effective Saturday, Oct. 1, NV Energy will decrease its overall electric rates by 2.43 percent for northern Nevada customers and decreasing overall natural gas rates by 10.72 percent for Reno-Sparks customers.

With this change, total electric rates will have decreased nearly 25 percent, while total natural gas rates have dropped nearly 30 percent since January 2009. According to the company, adding today’s decreases will roll back total electric prices to 2004 levels and total natural gas prices to 2001.

Governor Brian Sandoval, the Nevada Departments of Public Safety and Transportation and other traffic safety partners held an event in Carson City to remind drivers that handheld cellphone use while driving is prohibited in the state as of Oct. 1.

As of Oct. 1, law enforcement is giving motorists a warning for driving while talking, typing or reading on a handheld cellphone or similar device. Beginning Jan. 1, 2012, fines of up to $250, depending on the number of offenses, will be imposed for any driver using a handheld phone or device to talk, type or read.

A simplified fare structure will greet BlueGo passengers this weekend and a new route between Minden and Carson City begins Monday, the Tahoe Transportation District announced today.

The new fare and route structure allows BlueGo to hold the line on bus fares without major price increases on its main routes and enables the transportation system to operate in a positive and sustainable manner.

The carabiners have arrived, the rockholds are secure and downtown Reno%u2019s CommRow is putting the final touches in for its Saturday grand opening.

City officials and residents said they are eager to see the former Fitzgeralds hotel-casino reopened as a nongaming, nonsmoking and pet-friendly facility.

DAYTON - Dayton football coach Rob Turner readily admits that he knows very little about Wooster High's football team.That's because the Colts failed to send any film to the Dust Devils. The Colts,...

A Carson City jury on Thursday found Justin Carrigan guilty of failing to get help for his 3-year-old stepdaughter, who was unconscious and not breathing inside his home last year. They found hi...

Two of the financial minds of City National Bank expressed cautious optimism for a slow-and-steady economy at a luncheon with the bank's current and prospective clients Thursday.Perry Wong, senior ...

Although she has lived in the United States for 15 years, Loyda Herrera hasn't needed to learn English. "Before, I didn't worry about it," she said in Spanish. "But things have gotten harder now...

There is an ongoing internal brouhaha over the Nevada Republican Party's proposal to allow same-day voter registration so that non-Republicans can show up at the GOP presidential caucus in February...

Calling all wing lovers, the Great International Chicken Wing Society presents Carson City’s first Wing-Off at Carson Station Casino, Friday through Sunday. Check out the latest Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau blog for details and go here for a list of happenings through the month of October.

Michael Mathew Cearley, 51, was arrested Tuesday evening near the intersection of F Street and Winnie Lane following a report that he choked his spouse.

U.S. Army Spc. Garrett Fant, 21, a 2008 graduate of South Tahoe High School, died on Sept. 26 in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Army has not sent an official notice of his death but it has been confirmed through the news organization KSAL out of Kansas. Fant's mother is Julia Towle Farell of South Lake Tahoe.

The newly appointed director of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation held down two state jobs last fiscal year, earning almost as much as the governor.

Frank Woodbeck, who will join Gov. Brian Sandoval’s cabinet Monday, was, from July 2010 to March, both the full-time Southern Nevada director of the state’s Commission on Economic Development and a paid contract consultant to the state on “green jobs” training, according to records obtained by the Las Vegas Sun.

A Carson City woman testified Wednesday that she had to repeatedly ask Justin Carrigan to call 911 for his unconscious stepdaughter, eventually lying and telling him the 3-year-old girl was still b...

The Gold Hill Theater Troupe and Gold Hill Hotel present the heart-warming Broadway comedy "Sylvia," at 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, Oct. 5-20."Sylvia," by A.R. Gurney, is the love triangle ...

There will be plenty of fish to catch and prizes to win when the second annual kids' fishing day kicks off this month at Baily's Pond, but C.K. Baily's real objective is to get kids hooked on fi...

Jake Turner Dayton High Junior FootballQ: What are your favorite sports and why?A: Football, basketball and golf. They are the three sports I grew up playing and what I do at the high school.Q: Who...

CARSON CITY – Speakers at the fifth and final public hearing to comment on a draft environmental statement that seeks to map the future of the former Nevada Test Site expressed a variety of concerns Wednesday, including a failure to adequately address contamination of groundwater at the site.
Another concern focused on an indication in the document for what is now called the Nevada National Security Site that a previous agreement with the state of Nevada to avoid metropolitan areas in the transportation of low-level radioactive waste to the site for burial will be abandoned.