Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies responded Sunday night to a crash involving a motorcycle rider and passenger on College Parkway near Otha Street.

Western Nevada College is proud to announce that 78 students have qualified for the 2021 Summer Dean’s List.
To earn this recognition during the summer session, students attained a grade point average of 3.50 or higher and completed six or more units of classes. Students achieving the academic honor are:

The Carson City Rifle and Pistol Range will adjust to its fall schedule starting September 1. The Range will be open to the public for drop in use Tuesdays through Sundays, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., weather permitting.

My friend Pat volunteers at the Wilbur D. May Arboretum in Reno and has been fortunate to work with someone there who is a tool junkie. He has introduced Pat to some pretty helpful lightweight tools that make jobs easier on the aging body. Pat has shared those tool ideas with me.

The Dixie Fire burning near Susanville was 721,298 acres and 37 percent contained on Sunday morning, according to Cal Fire. The fire has destroyed 1,247 structures.

Wildfire smoke throughout Carson City and much of western Nevada will continue to remain locked into the region for the next few days, due to the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County and the Dixie Fire burning near Susanville, according to the National Weather Service.

MINDEN — As of August 21, 2021 the Douglas County Community and Senior Center is an active Evacuation Center for the evacuees in El Dorado County affected by the Caldor Fire. Due to this, the facility is closed to the public until further notice.

UPDATE 8:25 p.m.: The fire is out and no one was injured.

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A house fire was reported just before 7:45 p.m. on E. Robinson Saturday evening.

According to the homeowner, a fire began in the residence in the dishwasher and has now spread into the rest of the home, with both smoke and flames visible.

First responders are enroute while the house is evacuated.

The Douglas County Community and Senior Center is currently opening its doors as a precautionary measure at the request of El Dorado County, California to take in evacuees from the Caldor Fire.

Do you enjoy learning new things and helping to fulfill an important educational mission? That is what Nevada State Museum Tour Guides do everyday.

Steve Hedrick, Program Director of the Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative will be the featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon. C.I.R.C.L.E.S. is a cooperative community effort to elevate people out of poverty by intentionally creating relationships across class lines, and empowering them to chart their own course towards self-sufficiency.

Prolonged drought conditions have resulted in drastically reduced reservoir levels at Lahontan State Recreation Area. The reservoir level currently measures 3,974 acre-feet, while the level this time last year was just under 111,000 acre-feet, and about 239,000 acre-feet in 2019.

ITS TIME FOR OUR MONTHLY MEETING

When: Aug 26, 6:30pm
Where: Casino Fandango

PK O'Neill will be our guest speaker. PK currently serves as Nevada Assemblyman for our district. Find out what's happening now in our legislature.

For years the CCRP has had a cool elephant that shows up to all the events. We're finally going to name it! Come put in your vote to name this iconic figure.

It’s time to vote in new State Committeemen.
Always a good and interesting time.

The National Motorists Association, a driver advocacy organization, has declared September Driver Courtesy Month.

Do you think you're a courteous driver? Starting September 1st, you can take the quiz at https://www.motorists.org/courtesyquiz-m/ and find out.

Seven people have been arrested in a two-day sting led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Northern Nevada Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

This operation jointly planned and conducted by the FBI, Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Special Enforcement Team (SET), and Reno Police Department’s Human Exploitation and Trafficking (HEAT) Unit, sought to identify and arrest people seeking to pay minors for sexual acts.

To better provide public and firefighter safety due to extreme fire conditions throughout northern California, and strained firefighting resources throughout the country, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region is announcing a temporary closure of nine National Forests.

This closure will be effective at August 22, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. through September 6, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.

Tonight, Carson City residents and beyond can expect the smoke to return from the Caldor Fire, as surface winds shift and a degradation in air quality will continue into Saturday and possibly continue throughout the weekend.

The AQI forecast for this afternoon/evening in Carson City is Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups, while Saturday’s AQI forecast is Unhealthy for Everyone.

Tonight's home-opening football game scheduled to play Carson High School has been moved to Sparks High School, starting at 6 p.m., because of the smoke forecast this evening.

Nevada doesn’t generally come to mind when you think of dinosaurs, however, evidence of their existence has been found.

Josh Bonde, a Paleontologist with the Nevada Science center, along with other colleagues, has been unearthing the history of dinosaurs in the Silver State.

The Carson City Sheriff's Office Investigation Division is asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in a grand larceny theft of jewelry at a Carson City store on East William Street.

With "silhouette" as its theme, the Carson City Photo Club announces its competition winners picked for the month of July.

Dayton Valley Days is a two-day outdoor street festival where people from Dayton Valley and the surrounding areas can come together to enjoy the historic downtown area. In its 32nd year, the festival will be held in Old Town Dayton on Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and 19, 2021, 8:30 am.

The Caldor Fire south of Pollock Pines in El Dorado County, Calif., grew to 65,474 acres overnight Wednesday with zero containment as of Thursday morning.

The town of El Dorado, Somerset, Pleasant Valley, Fairplay, Omo Ranch and Riverton are among communities threatened. The community of Grizzly Flats was hit hard by the fire, losing a school, post office and homes.

Spend this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 20 and 21, with Mike Thomas as he provides a good UFO story and history lesson in a war that took place in Nevada in 1860.