The Children’s Cabinet will host the 13th annual Art of Childhood, a fundraising gala for the nonprofit organization, on Friday, Sept. 30 at the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City. The Art of Childhood is an evening dedicated to celebrating children and families while enjoying dinner as well as a silent and live auction. Proceeds from the event benefit The Children’s Cabinet.

This column addresses topics related to the health of our community.Carson City Health and Human Services is hosting its eighth annual free flu vaccination day Saturday, Oct. 1. Over the past seven...

Fall is here and summer is gone along with most of the farmers markets. It was a good year for the 3rd & Curry St. Farmers Market and I want to thank everyone who helped make it a success, espec...

If momentum for a proposed 120-kilovolt transmission line between Carson City and a substation near Dayton was slow before, it's nonexistent now.There's been little movement on the project since Ma...

A Carson City woman, sought by authorities for four days after allegedly running over her boyfriend after an argument, was arrested at her home Tuesday afternoon. Investigators had been looking ...

The program for senior citizen inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center has won an award.Program Administrator Mary Harrison will travel to New York City in October to accept the first Dr...

It was a case of too much Kenzie Tillitt.The Senators' dynamic midfielder scored four goals, two in each half, to lead the Senators to a 6-0 victory over McQueen in a Northern 4A crossover game Tue...

Buoyed by balanced team efforts, the Carson Senators outran Douglas in both the girls and boys races during a Sierra League cross country dual meet on Tuesday afternoon at Kingsbury Elementary scho...

Jim Silsby shot a 5-over-par 147 to win the Silver Oak Senior Men's Club gross championship and Alex Talmant shot a 129 to win the net championship.Silsby won $100 for his effort, while Talmant rec...

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is getting a new tool it hopes will help keep your family safer. It’s an electronic system that goes into patrol cars that helps deputies quickly run license plates and track down criminals. Go here for the story from KOLO TV News Channel 8.

By Jeff Cowen
As the Lake Tahoe Regional Planning Agency shifts into the final phases of its Regional Plan Update, the Agency announced Tuesday an associated change in leadership for its Regional Plan Update team. The effort that had been led by Harmon Zuckerman for the past two years will now be charged to Arlo Stockham, a planner and consultant with 14 years' experience in Northern Nevada.

For more than 60 years, the FAA has carefully managed air shows and races to keep onlookers at a safe distance. But now it has to figure out how to avoid a repeat of the incident, aviation experts say.

"It comes down to this: How much risk is the federal government willing to take?" said Michael Barr, an accident investigation expert at USC and former combat pilot. "Saying nobody has been killed before doesn't wash."

(press release) Las Vegas, NV – Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto today announced that she filed an Assurance of Discontinuance with Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings (“Morgan Stanley”) to resolve an investigation into the firm’s role in purchasing and securitizing roughly 3,000 subprime mortgages in Nevada.

Squaw Valley USA, the iconic Lake Tahoe-area resort that has been home to some of the country’s top downhill skiers, is joining operations with neighboring Alpine Meadows. See story here. Here is the official press release dated today:

All I can say is "wow."President Barack Obama has an absolute lock on the stock market. The Dow plummeted last week, with nearly a trillion dollars lost in two days. Staggering for our economy and ...

Here is more important news about the Budget Control Act, often referred to as the debt ceiling deal, and how it could affect our seniors.If the appointed congressional Super Committee cannot reach...

After installing solar arrays at five schools, the Carson City School District will receive a $9.7 million rebate from NV Energy at today's school board meeting.The rebate, through NV Energy's Sola...

A California man was jailed in Storey County on a drunken driving charge after he reportedly wrecked his bike Saturday on Geiger Grade, seriously injuring his passenger. Darin T. Simmons, 45, of...

If you drive between Minden/Carson Valley and Carson City at all, your commute is about to get a little more complicated. A major repaving project of the whole road, all the way between the two towns, is about to start. It's needed badly, because in many spots the top layer from the last time they repaved it is starting to peel off, and the old asphalt from the time before that is showing. This repaving project has been a few years coming, and it''s about time.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today announced that Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki has informed him that Nevada has been awarded a $3.4 million grant to cover the entire allowable cost of expanding the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.

The following persons were arrested by the Carson City Sheriff's Office this weekend:

For the first time in 10 years, states cut taxes more than they increased them, according to a preliminary report released last week by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
But voters should not draw hasty conclusions about what this means for states’ fiscal health. Most states continued to face substantial budget shortfalls during their 2011 legislative sessions, even though some states saw revenue collections increase.

Today, firefighters throughout the region continue to battle the Buckeye Fire, five miles west of Bridgeport. The Buckeye Fire started yesterday, September 25, 2011 around 11 a.m.

No structures have been lost and no injuries have been reported. Firefighters have been faced with steep terrain and changing wind conditions making it a difficult fire to contain. As of this morning the size of the fire is estimated to be approximately 1,200 acres. At the time of this release there is no estimate on when containment will occur. The investigation of the cause of the fire is still ongoing.

The top Arenacross riders will battle it out at the Livestock Events Center for the 2011 AMA Arenacross crown. Main event starts at 7:30 PM. Come on out and catch all of the bar to bar action during the Reno race.