A light sprinkle throughout the morning didn't dampen the spirits of Earth Day enthusiasts who cheerfully cleaned up three areas of Carson City Saturday.The event is sponsored annually by the Ca...

RENO - Matt Gardner is enjoying a season that pitchers normally can only dream about."So far so good," smiled the Nevada Wolf Pack relief pitcher after Saturday's 8-3 victory over the New Mexico St...

An 8-year-old girl died overnight after an accident on Highway 50 east of Carson City in Mound House on Friday afternoon, which also claimed the life of her father, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports today.

The girl's identity has not been released. Her father, David James Melendrez, 30, of Carson City died at the scene of the accident. The condition of a young boy, 3, also inside the car with his sister, and his father Melendrez, is not known at this time, said Trooper Dan Lopez.

LAKE TAHOE - An unprecedented plan to return Lake Tahoe to historic clarity levels has moved one step closer to reality.The California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday approved the La...

--Shade Tree Council hosts the annual Arbor Day celebrationApril, 22 2011 11:38 pm MST...

The political scramble began in earnest Friday to fill the anticipated vacancy in Nevada's 2nd Congressional District should the governor appoint, as expected, incumbent Rep. Dean Heller to succ...

The Carson Water Subconservancy District will host a Carson River Watershed tour from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 16 and May 17.The tour will go from the headwaters in Alpine County to the terminus ...

Games between Western Nevada and Southern Nevada are not for the faint of heart. The battles tend to keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time.A year ago, WNC won three of the four home gam...

The Nevada Senate held a marathon floor session Friday, voting on 64 measures to clear the decks for next week's deadline to get all bills out of their house of origin.The slate of bills that cl...

Muscle Powered is once again leading a series of road bike rides along some of the most scenic routes in the area. The rides will start out easy and gradually pick up speed as the season progres...

By Sean Whaley
CARSON CITY – After a lengthy hearing in the Assembly today on what several witnesses said were the catastrophic effects of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget recommendations for higher education, Republican members held firm with the executive branch in a series of funding votes.

By Andrew Doughman
CARSON CITY – Nevada’s rural Republican legislators are struggling to defend the governor’s budget that cuts their communities.
Democrats have been showcasing cuts to the rural counties in order to convince rural Republican legislators that a vote for tax increases is a vote to mitigate the harm to their districts.
Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said that rural counties are already “cut to the bone,” and in many cases could lose all that they have left.

PRESS RELASE — Is 35 minutes of travel time worth up to $100 in value-added savings at South Lake Tahoe?

South Lake Tahoe lodging providers are offering value-added deals to make the time pass more quickly as a detour for Highway 50 over Echo Summit will divert traffic for about two weeks.

In a recent study with potentially broad implications, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have discovered how low vitamin D levels lead to atherosclerosis in diabetics. According to an article in the August 25, 2009, issue of Circulation (available online), the mechanism centers around the macrophages, specialized immune cells that eat cholesterol.

RENO - Backers of a broad proposal to expand a nuclear-waste dump site in Nevada criticized the Obama administration Thursday for paying lip service to the nuclear industry while ignoring the ne...

The Carson City Fire Department started conducting training exercises inside the old, abandoned home on Stewart and Telegraph streets Thursday. The training will continue today and next Monday a...

The Capital City Arts Initiative Board of Directors announced Thursday that long-time Carson City economic development leader Joe McCarthy will become the organization's executive director begin...

The head of the Nevada Corrections Association has called for an audit of the Nevada Department of Corrections over the plan to shut down Nevada State Prison in Carson City.Gene Columbus sent a let...

Carson High didn't need any seventh-inning theatrics against Reed this time around.The Senators exploded for seven first-inning runs and rolled to a 13-3 five-inning win over the Raiders Thursday n...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... Did the Nevada Wolf Pack football team find its quarterback this spring? None of the three candidates (Tyler Lantrip, Cody Fajardo, Mason Magleby) was amazing...

We think that reusing, reducing and recycling materials would have appealed to the early pioneers.We know that the early farmers and ranchers were conservationists. They didn't have a choice, they ...

The head of the Nevada Corrections Association has called for an audit of the Nevada Department of Corrections over the plan to shut down Nevada State Prison in Carson City.Gene Columbus sent a ...

By Andrew Doughman
RENO – President Barack Obama highlighted Nevada’s renewable energy sector today with a visit to the heat-to-energy company ElectraTherm, in northern Nevada.
In front of a backdrop of “green machines” Obama touted plans to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil companies in favor of providing incentives for renewable energy companies.

Like any 16-year-old girl who has just lost a pet, Megan Conroy was devastated when her cat Zeppelin went missing more than six years ago.Megan, now 23, suspects someone stole the cat from her f...