Carson City’s 18th annual Jazz & Beyond Music & Art Festival, presented by the Mile High Jazz Band Association, offers 17 days of mostly free entertainment and more than 30 performances. The beat returns this August in multiple venues around the city.

CARSON CITY — International Yoga Day celebrates the physical and spiritual benefits yoga brings to people around the world. Partnership Carson City is inviting the community to celebrate International Yoga Day by taking the yoga mats outside for a special Monday Wellness Yoga session in the park Monday, June 21, 2021, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at John Mankins Park, 3051 Oak Ridge Dr.


Summer temperatures have arrived. Combined with what seems to be relentless wind and high desert sun, plants, including the grass, are drying out. How can we conserve water with the drought this year?

As part of the Carson City School District’s Safe Reopening Plan for the 2021-2022 school year, the district will host a workshop to discuss and obtain public input Tuesday, June 22, 6 p.m., prior to the scheduled 7 p.m. school board meeting, in the Robert Crowell Board Room at the Carson City Community Center.

High temperatures hovering around 100 degrees has prompted the National Weather Service to extend a heat advisory for the Greater Reno, Carson City, Carson Valley and Lyon County areas until 8 p.m. Sunday night.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation has launched a web site and will host information booths to gather public feedback on planning for future traffic improvements to U.S. 50 at Lake Tahoe’s East Shore.

Pillows, goat hide, blankets and crushed pearls are only part of what Reno and Las Vegas artists used in the traveling exhibit “Still Here Now,” which is now showing in the Bristlecone Main Gallery at Western Nevada College in Carson City.

The featured speaker at Carson City's June 21st Democratic luncheon will be James DeHaven, state politics reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal and the USA Today Network.

The Foundation for Carson City Parks and Recreation, at its June Board of Directors meeting, allocated $15,000 of the funds entrusted to it by the old Carson City Tennis Club to initiate the design, planning, and engineering of new tennis courts at Centennial Park.

One of Carson City’s favorite bike-themed events will be returning to the capital city streets tonight: Blinky Man!

The pub crawl/bike tour/costumed event is a summer favorite for Carsonites, who dress up both themselves as well as their bikes with silly costumes and twinkle lights, generally accompanied by a loud moving speaker blasting tunes to keep energies high as riders cruise through town.

As an end to Bike Month in Carson City a bike and gear swap hosted by muscle powered is going on now until 11 a.m. at the Brewery Arts Center.

Bikes, wheels, trailers, gear and more are available!

According to the US National Weather Service, a new daily record high was set Friday in South Lake Tahoe.

The previous daily record was set in 1985 at 86 degrees. The average temperature for the high altitude lake is generally around 71 degrees for June, far below the recorded 90 degrees that swept the lake shores Friday.

The Carson City Seventh-day Adventist Church Pantry will be open Sunday, June 20th from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at 405 College Parkway.

In commemoration of Juneteenth, the newest American Federal Holiday celebrating the end of chattel slavery in the United States that was signed into law yesterday, the government offices of Carson City and Lyon County are closed.

The Nevada Rural Counties Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) has free Farmers Market coupons for Carson City low-income seniors through the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP).

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents “Basin and Range” by artist Candida Webb at the Community Center’s Crowell Board Room from June 16 to October 14, 2021. CCAI will host a reception for the artist in the Crowell Board Room, Friday, June 18, 5 to 6:30pm. The Community Center is located at 851 E William Street, Carson City and is open during all public meetings and on request.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies responded Thursday evening to a vehicle crash in the area of Fairview Drive near the Nevada National Guard.

Greater Nevada Credit Union teamed up with local chef and entrepreneur, Mark Estee, ZLine Kitchen and Bath, and Reno Food Systems, for the Art of Barbecuing, an event held Wednesday, June 16, 2021, to help local youth residents at the Eddy House.

Fathers' Day weekend events in the Carson City area are piling on as the first day of summer is days away beginning Sunday. Here's what we can look forward to this weekend.

CARSON CITY — After a widespread heat wave in the Western United States in August 2020 that led to public pleas to voluntarily conserve energy, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada opened an investigation into resource adequacy and planning to ensure Nevada has sufficient resources to maintain continuous reliable electric service.

As a part of Sheriff Ken Furlong's Initiative of "101 Days of Safe Summer," this year Carson City sheriff's deputies are teaming up with the Washoe County Sheriff's Office on Marine IX for added patrol attention to the Carson City waters and shorelines of Lake Tahoe.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified a Wellington woman who died in a single vehicle rollover on Saturday in Lyon County.

A Nevada Department of Transportation maintenance employee is in stable condition Wednesday after being shot multiple times while working to resurface State Route 278 near Eureka. The suspect died by gunshot following an hours-long standoff, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.

UPDATE 7:25PM: All previous fire-related highway closures have been removed between Reno and Carson City. I-580, Alt. US 395 and Mt. Rose Highway all open, but avoid the area if possible to leave room for continued fire response and residents returning to their homes.

UPDATE 6:10PM: From NDOT: I-580 South near Eastlake Boulevard Road remains closed. Old Highway 395 opened to center lane traffic only. Watch for fire equipment and exercise caution.Mt Rose Highway between Wedge Parkway and I-580, westbound now fully opened. Eastbound remains closed. I-580 South at South Virginia Street, South Virginia off-ramps only closed.