The Museum is hosting family art night! For family art night we will be teaching families how to paint a flower planter box and create paper flowers to go in it.

Douglas County’s reopening and recovery plan titled, “Moving Forward” goes into effect starting Saturday, May 1, 2021. The plan was approved by the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners and passed review by the Nevada COVID Task Force.

Fred Lokken, the ever-popular political science professor at Truckee Meadows Community College, will be the featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon. Prof. Lokken's presentation will include an assessment of President Biden's first 100 days and prospects for passage of his extremely ambitious agenda, as well as an in-depth review of how Nevada's legislative session has gone so far.

In recognition of Historic Preservation and Archeological Awareness Month, the City’s Historic Resource Commission has organized the 2021 Scavenger Hunt.

This year’s hunt “Founding of the Historic District” focuses on building foundations in the historic district and in the downtown commercial core.

Historic Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada, is bringing the arts alive with the upcoming murder mystery production of, “Murder at the House of Dolls,” presented by the Piper’s Players premiering tonight, April 30, 2021 and running through mid-May.

A “Pie’d for Poverty” fundraiser is to be held today, April 30 at the Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery where residents can pie local Carson City leaders for the sake of raising funds for Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH.

Food insecurity and poverty is an increasing problem in the United States, and has been exacerbated since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

CARSON CITY — As the state, and the nation, enters a new period of transition and with effective safety mitigation efforts in place, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation announces a return to the pre-pandemic work search requirement, for all claimants receiving unemployment benefits in both the regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance programs.

University of Nevada, Reno Extension and local, state and federal firefighting agencies are embarking on a six-month-long “Nevada Wildfire Awareness Campaign,” kicking off in May and running through October. As part of the campaign, Extension's Living With Fire Program will be offering a series of webinars on wildfire-related topics.

A 43-year-old Carson Tahoe Hospital nurse died Wednesday at Renown Medical Center in Reno after the Carson City Sheriff's Office responded to a minor vehicle accident in the area of College Parkway and Retail Drive.

Valley Farms Minden, Carson Valley's newest family-owned farm, will be hosting a Farm Camp for children this summer, as well as Baby Goat Yoga classes.

The University of Nevada, Reno Extension Office is hosting a Grow Your Own, Nevada! workshop series covering the basics of gardening in the Silver State with a variety of topics.

The eight “Grow Your Own, Nevada!” classes being offered in spring statewide will help Nevadans who want to get on a path to more sustainable, local, healthy living by growing and preserving more of their own food.

AB227 is being considered in the Legislature that will create a loss of 4300 temporary and skilled workers jobs as stated by The American Staffing Association [ASA]. An unofficial poll among Private Employment Agencies (“PEAs”) that are Nevada businesses that are licensed and regulated by the Nevada Labor Commissioner, say it’s estimated that about 15% of them are Veterans.

The Nevada State Museum, Carson City, will activate historical Coin Press No. 1 from 1 to 7 p.m. May 18 to mint a special medallion commemorating the state Capitol building. Opened in 1871, the Nevada Capitol building celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. The special medallion is modeled after one of the earliest images of the Capitol, and features a banner with the state motto, “All for Our Country.”

It’s that time of the year again, the birds are out, the bees are buzzing, and all across Carson City and our surrounding regions, citizens are sneezing. With the arrival of spring, so too comes allergy season.

Country Financial representative Sean Marler recently presented Empire Elementary with a 2021 Operation Helping Heroes award. Marler presented a donation $1,500 to the school which will be used by teachers to purchase incentive supplies for students.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified a Beverly Hills, Calif., resident who died Saturday, April 17 in a pedestrian related vehicle crash in Washoe Valley.

If you're craving in-person events, and miss networking with Carson City's most dynamic women then you need to join Polka Dot Powerhouse as we relaunch our local chapter, with our new Managing Director Monica Marcinko.

On Monday, April 19, 2021 at approximately 9:13 p.m., Nevada Highway Patrol troopers responded to an injury crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian in Mound House on US-50 and Newman Lane in Lyon County.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is joining forces with other Nevada law enforcement agencies to increase enforcement on speeding violations from Friday, April 30 to May 10.

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting Tuesday, April 27, 2021 that there are 19 new COVID-19 cases and 20 recoveries in the Quad County region. This brings the total number of cases to 12,430, with 11,785 recoveries and 226 deaths; 419 cases remain active.

Friends In Service Helping, also known as FISH, has long been a staple in the Carson City community after it opened its doors in 1979 with a mission to help those in need.

Carson City School District’s McKinney-Vento Students in Transition ‘Step Into Spring’ program provided 219 pairs of new shoes with pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade students in transition Tuesday morning. Students in Transition are those individuals who lack a fixed, regular or adequate nighttime residence.

The Carson City SDA Church Food Pantry is open tonight, Tuesday, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 405 College Parkway, just West of Roop Street. If you are need of food, come on by.