This column addresses topics related to the health of our community.As fall approaches, it's time to start thinking about cooler weather and the start of school. While students at Fremont Elementar...

With a growing emphasis on education reform across Nevada, the state's superintendents elected new officers to lead the Nevada Association of School Superintendents for the 2011-2012 school year.Ne...

The first mosquito pool to test positive for West Nile virus so far this year is in Mason Valley, the Nevada Department of Agriculture's Animal Disease and Food Safety Laboratory said Friday.Until ...

Carson City resident Tiffany O'Day recently won $500 in gas cards as the first-place winner of Greater Nevada Credit Union's Laughing Gas Photo Facebook contest. The contest ran May 1 to June 12, a...

The high drama of our ruling elite regarding the debt ceiling only reminds me of an old joke: How do you know if a politician is lying? His lips are moving.The truth is not being told. In fact, the...

Assuming that a deal is reached last minute on the debt ceiling, the U.S. economy still will have a great deal of headwind before we see any meaningful recovery. We still have the American consumer...

OLYMPIC VALLEY - Nearly a year to the date after his official hiring as CEO at Squaw Valley USA, Andy Wirth revealed plans last week for numerous transformative projects at the North Shore ski r...

Carson City needs to bring back the race track, plain and simple. Since it has been torn down, the land has been nothing but be a haven for crime activity, sounds like a great trade-off to me. I think it was absurd for the race track to be taken in the first place. Saturday night racing became a summer tradition in Carson City.

High Sierra Swing Dance Club presents a day of workshops by renowned West Coast swing instructor Michelle Kinkaid on Aug. 27 at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City. Kinkaid will teach three workshops: 2 p.m. “When Is It OK to Play, and How?”; 3:15 p.m. “Dancing to the ‘1’ in a Phrase”; and 4:30 p.m. “WCS Today and How it is Evolving.” Cost: $20 for one workshop, $50 for all three. There will be a 90-minute dinner break then at 7 p.m., Kinkaid will teach a group intermediate WCS lesson for $10 for all dancers.

The sci-fi-western-thriller "Cowboys & Aliens," currently showing at the Fandango Galaxy multiplex in Carson City, finally achieves what most studios have long sought, a film with five writers, much of whose script is simply explosions.

Eleanor Muscott's Sunday was filled with chores. In the morning she fed the chickens and rabbits and hung three loads of towels on the line to dry.By 1:30 p.m., when she was beginning to wash di...

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday named two members of the Public Utilities Commission.He reappointed Rebecca Wagner, saying her work on the commission "has been grounded in the law and well-reasoned."...

Director of Administration Jeff Mohlenkamp ordered state agencies this week to draw down all the federal funds they are entitled to in case the battle over the debt ceiling isn't resolved by Tuesda...

I sat in on a conference call on Tuesday with the ESPN broadcast team for the NASCAR Sprint Cup broadcasts. Beginning with Sunday's Brickyard 400, they will televise the rest of the 2011 season. Al...

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.

One lane will be closed in each direction on the Carson City Freeway between the US 50 and Fairview Drive interchanges due to maintenance.

Work will continue on a NDOT project to mill and overlay a section of US 395 from the junction with US 50 (Spooner) in Carson City to south of Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. There will be nightly lane closures occurring from 8:00 p.m. through 6:00 a.m.

Carson City Sheriff deputies arrested Terry David Vickers, 45, Thursday evening after a woman reported that he had beat and strangled her into unconsciousness, and assaulted her with a screwdriver.

According to the arrest report, the victim told deputies that Vickers began the assault Wednesday night when he slapped her at a restaurant on North Carson Street. She said after leaving the restaurant she made contact with some friends and left with them, not returning to the motel room she shared with Vickers until Thursday morning.

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s official jobless rate may have jumped three-tenths of a percentage point to 12.4 percent in June, but a broader measure of the state’s unemployment picture showed some slight improvement through the second quarter of this year.

A mother bear and cub, standing next to a trap that held another cub, before all three were captured and taken away from this westside Carson City neighborhood on Monday. Photo by Andrew Peckham.

A local man who says he's qualified to operate the Carson City Landfill is angry that the city is considering contracting an out-of-state firm to do the job."With a San Francisco or California c...

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has introduced legislation that would require Congress to pass a budget in order to get their paychecks."Clearly Washington is broken," he said. "It's been more than 800 d...

Gardnerville handyman Terry Lyn Elmer, 46, was identified as the driver who was killed in a three-vehicle accident Wednesday morning.Elmer was an independent contractor who owned Elmer's Mainten...

Our friend and political pundit Jon Ralston - who supports bigger government and higher taxes - is gonna need a chiropractor after all the contortions he's going through to cover Gov. Brian Sandov...

Soroptimist International of the Comstock will host the second annual Train Ride event on Tuesday, with proceeds benefiting the lives of local women and children.The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. at ...

CARSON CITY – State officials and lawmakers are rejecting the suggestion that they acted improperly last year when fees generated from several college savings programs were shifted to shore up the cash-strapped Gov. Guinn Millennium Scholarship for academically eligible Nevada high school graduates.
But one former lawmaker, who voted for the transfer, acknowledges he remains concerned about the decision.