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A 3-1/2-acre field fire reported at about 9:20 a.m. today initially threatened homes in the Mark Twain area of Storey County, but was quickly contained about and hour and a half later, according to...

Carson City Fire Department and rescue teams plucked a man and a woman from a log in the middle of the Carson River at Riverview Park in Carson City this afternoon.

The pair had apparently become stuck when their raft hit barbed wire, according to fire personnel on the scene. A second raft with a family of three, including a small child, capsized as it attempted to rescue the two in the water, said Carson City Assistant Fire Chief Tom Tarulli. The mother and child swam to shore and a man was rescued further down the shore, Tarulli said.

Former state Senator and GOP Chairman and CD-2 candidate Mark Amodei last night struck back at state Senator and opponent Greg Brower.

An email missive from Amodei hit the inboxes of the Republican party faithful on the eve of the Nevada Republican Party’s gathering in Sparks. The party will today call a quorum of its central committee members and vote to decide the party’s nominated candidate for the special election to fill Senator Dean Heller’s vacated congressional seat.

My wife, Susan, and I have lived in Northern Nevada for 26 years and have never visited Yosemite National Park. Some of our most beautiful treasures are those which exist right under our nose. We s...

An animal shelter in Michigan beat out the Carson City Senior Center for a new vehicle. The Senior Center was up against four other non-profits nationwide. The group to receive the most votes on Fa...

Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey told the Board of Regents Friday her college has lost a quarter of its faculty as well as numerous administrative positions in the past year."When I ...

Letters were expected to go out this week inviting former animal shelter volunteers to return to the shelter and apply for its new volunteer program.In January, 20 volunteers were notified that ...

Former mayor Marv Teixeira said that as the oldest child in a family of two girls and three boys, Helaine Jesse Morres has been described as "a tad bit bossy."Mark Amodei, who grew up on the sam...

Carson City deputies responding to a report of an intrusion alarm at a laundromat Thursday morning discovered someone hadn't broken in, they were trying to get out. According to the police report, ...

Chancellor Dan Klaich warned the Board of Regents and audience Friday that dramatic changes are in store for the university system - including possible enrollment restrictions.The system has always...

Alcohol is suspected to be a factor in an accident Thursday in which an allegedly unlicensed driver struck two vehicles, a light pole, fire hydrant and sign while driving down the wrong side of the...

Nevada's unemployment rate was 12.1 percent in May - nearly 3 percent from its 14.9 percent peak in December.But the raw rate - not adjusted for seasonal factors - actually increased two tenths com...

Nevadans will be barred from texting while driving, allowed to order food in smoking bars, and spared from a hike in their utility bills after Gov. Brian Sandoval finished processing bills from the...

A couple of months ago I wrote about 76 year old Midget racer J.R. Williams. At the other end of the age spectrum is Carson City native Conner Ford, who is working his way up the racing ladder at t...

CARSON CITY – On deadline day for Gov. Brian Sandoval to act on the remaining bills from the 2011 legislative session, measures extending existing taxes for two more years, authorizing the creation of a toll road around Boulder City and banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving were all approved.

CARSON CITY – Secretary of State Ross Miller is asking for information from county clerks and registrars about the possibility of using mail-in ballots for the upcoming special election to fill the vacant Congressional District 2 seat.

Nevada's unemployment rate was 12.1 percent in May - nearly 3 percent from its 14.9 percent peak in December.But the raw rate - not adjusted for seasonal factors - actually increased two tenths com...

For two days next month, July 9-10, Nevada will be the center of the conservative universe, as the fourth annual Conservative Leadership Conference convenes in Las Vegas - including the next in an ...

A Carson City man was taken to the Reno trauma center Thursday afternoon after plowing his vehicle into a block wall, two cars, a power pole and a fire hydrant on Carson Street. Josh Harper, 23,...

The Board of Regents was told Thursday plans to sell the Carlin Fire Science Academy to the federal government for conversion to the eastern Nevada National Guard center are moving forward both in ...

By the time lawmakers left town earlier this month, Carson City ended up taking a $1.5 million annual hit in transferred services, city lobbyist Mary Walker told the officials Thursday."Some of the...

Mining companies will no longer get tax breaks on their fire insurance, marketing costs and severance packages after Nevada's governor signed a law expected to bring the state $24 million in the ne...

City officials agreed Thursday in an addendum to their 2002 lease agreement with the Carson City Municipal Golf Corporation to allow them to pay $30,000 for fiscal year 2011 rather than the $120,00...

The Board of Regents voted reluctantly on Thursday to take away the registration, application and admission fee breaks Nevada seniors now get when they take college classes.Anyone 62 or older who i...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . OK, yes, I have to admit it. I was thrilled to see the Miami Heat and LeBron James lose the NBA Finals. I didn't care who won it as long as the Heat and LeB...

Carson City Little League has chosen its all-star rosters for post-season play which begins later this month.The 11-12-year-old team will be coached by Kinkade DeJoseph, Bill Gall and Kevin Krebs. ...

ALAMEDA - The Neptune Pearl scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh to wipe out a 2-1 deficit and beat the Nevada Bulllets 6-3 in a Far West Collegiate League baseball game Thursday night at ...

For more than three hours, a parade of witnesses ranging from former Assemblyman John Carpenter of Elko to housewives and mothers pleaded with the Board of Regents Thursday to protect funding for t...

CARSON CITY – A bill allowing the state Treasurer to invest up to $50 million in education trust funds to support economic diversification efforts and generate more money for public schools was signed into law today by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Concerns had been expressed about the legality of Senate Bill 75 after it had been amended in the Senate, but Treasurer Kate Marshall said today the final version of the measure restored the original language.

CARSON CITY – A bill allowing the state Treasurer to invest up to $50 million in education trust funds to support economic diversification efforts and generate more money for public schools was signed into law today by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

You can help the Senior Center win a new truck for their Meals on Wheels program. To vote, go to Toyota's Facebook page, click on "Toyota 100 Cars for Good," click on “finalist” and go to “C” for “Carson City Senior Citizens Center,” where you can view the center's video. Only votes cast today count, so go and vote now.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting kicks off at 8:30 a.m. The full agenda is here, and you can watch the live video here.

Among the issues up for discussion is a proposal to change the lease agreement for the Eagle Valley Golf Course to reduce the annual payments due to the city by Carson City Municipal Golf Corporation, the entity that runs the facility. Instead of the current $120,000 annual payment, the reduction would call for CCMGC to pay $30,000 this year and 2012, $60,000 in 2013, and return to paying $120,000 per year through 2029.

In the recent past, operators of two privately owned golf courses have expressed their displeasure with the city for subsidizing the operations at Eagle Valley, creating what they view as unfair competition.

Also on the agenda is approval for distributing $108,623 in Redevelopment funds for a variety community events including Nevada Day and the downtown farmers market.

RENO – For the three leading Republican candidates seeking the Congressional District 2 seat vacated with the appointment of Dean Heller to the U.S. Senate, it was all about qualifications and experience in a debate held here Wednesday.
State Republican Party Chairman Mark Amodei, a former state senator, state Sen. Greg Brower, appointed to fill the seat formerly held by retired Sen. Bill Raggio, and retired Navy commander Kirk Lippold, faced off ahead of a GOP meeting Saturday in Sparks that could determine which candidate will get the party nod.

George Nelson's foray into auto mechanics came out of the necessity of having to fix the equipment on his father's Minnesota farm in the 1960s. As a machinist in the Marine Corps during the Viet...

RENO - It took nearly all of an hour-long debate for three Nevada Republican congressional hopefuls to find something to disagree about Wednesday night, but the gloves came off the last five min...

Heavy precipitation this winter and the runoff its created has Lyon County officials concerned about flooding. According to Rob Loveberg, Lyon County Emergency Management coordinator, the mainstem ...

Carson City Fire Chief Stacey Giomi said he has sent four firefighters and an engine to Arizona to help with wild fires there."This is not uncommon," Giomi said. "The last three years have been ...

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday the effort by House Republicans to revive the Yucca Mountain project are going nowhere.And as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, he has considerable say ove...

Regent Ron Knecht has asked the interim president of UNR to help find some one-time money to restore cuts made to the Agriculture Department's Cooperative Extension service.Knecht said he planned t...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday the GOP's "reckless" plan to end Medicare would deny Nevada seniors quality care while costing them thousands more each year.In a phone int...

Being billed as a place where parks, trails and open space meet, the recently completed Fulstone Wetlands project offers a .6-mile path around the site, through the wetlands observation area."We...

One of the big experiments for Carson High's summer baseball team has been using wood bats in preparation for the less lively bats that will be used next spring.There have been some good games and ...

Author and historian Robert W. Ellison will present the lecture "Long Beard: Warren Wasson, Indian Agent & U.S. Marshall" at the Nevada State Museum 7-8 p.m. Thursday, June 23.The lecture is bas...

Greetings from Washington, D.C., where they don't seem to have gotten the word that the nation is in a deep recession. The restaurants are full, traffic is horrendous, construction is booming, and ...

In the final hours of the 2011 Nevada State Legislative Session, Senate Bill 271 passed, bringing with it opportunities for the two states that border Lake Tahoe to reinvigorate the spirit of compr...

Lisa Lee from Advocates to End Domestic Violence talks about the Taste of Downtown event happening on June 18 in Carson City.

Tioga Road will open for the season on Saturday, June 18 at 8 a.m. for all vehicle traffic, Yosemite National Park officials announced Wednesday.

Tioga Road, which is accessed by Highway 395 at Lee Vining in Mono County, Calif. and is bound by both sides by State Highway 120, is the popular east-west crossing of the Sierra Nevada.

CARSON CITY – The Humane Society of the United States says Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Legislature enacted several important measures to strengthen Nevada’s protections for animals in the just-ended 2011 session.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today signed four public education reform bills into law, saying Nevada has “made great advancements on behalf of our schoolchildren.”
Sandoval signed Assembly Bills 225 and 229, and Senate Bills 197 and 212 into law.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today signed four public education reform bills into law, saying Nevada has “made great advancements on behalf of our schoolchildren.”

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