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A 61-year-old Carson City man was arrested Tuesday after drinking from a bottle of top shelf whiskey he allegedly stole from a William Street grocery store, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

Due to gusty winds associated with a winter storm moving into the region, prescribed burning in the Timberline area of Carson City has been postponed for the remainder of the week.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Investigation Division is asking for assistance in locating two residential burglary suspects.

The Carson City School District is asking parents to mark their calendars for Monday, March 5, to register children who will be 5-years-old by Sept. 30, 2018, and eligible for Kindergarten for the coming 2018-2019 school year.

Happy Wednesday, Carson City. If you’ve got anything outside that needs doing, the smart money would be on tackling that today. There is a hefty storm brewing and this is the last dry day we’ll see for a little while.

The 15th Annual Crab Feed benefiting St. Teresa of Avila School in Carson City will be held on Saturday, March 3, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Carson City Community Center, 851 East William Street.

Mountaintop cameras from the University of Nevada, Reno spotted or tracked 240 fires in Nevada and California in 2017. This helped to keep firefighters more situationally aware and able to mount appropriate responses more rapidly over tens of thousands of square miles of forests and rangelands, including rural communities.

Revision to Nevada's 2017 labor force have been made with Carson City seeing an upward revise of 1,000 jobs added, translating to an added average of 1,400 jobs for the year, according to figures released Tuesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

With Carson City receiving a healthy dusting of snow overnight and around an inch or more in surrounding areas, weather forecasters now have their eyes on what may turn out to be the biggest winter storm of the season so far for the Sierra and lower valleys.

UPDATE 9:12AM: Surrounding areas near Fremont where there were reports of a strong gas odor have been given the "all clear," according to a Carson City Fire Department battalion chief. The unidentified odor was neither propane or natural gas.
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UPDATE 8:31AM: Southwest Gas has given the "all clear" at Fremont Elementary where there was a report of a possible gas leak. No leaks were found. Students who were bused to Carson Middle School will be returning to Fremont, said Dan Davis, spokesman for Carson City School District.
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More than 20 reports of possible gas leaks have been made Tuesday morning around Carson City, including a strong odor at Fremont Elementary School where there has been an evacuation of students.

A 25-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with burglaries that happened at Carson Lanes bowling alley over the weekend, a Carson City sheriff's captain said.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to say something, but you didn’t know how? What does that feel like in your body? Does it feel like a headache, pressing on your chest, or a pit in your stomach? Stating your truth is uncomfortable. But it’s also necessary in order to have authentic relationships with others.

It’s been nearly two months since a law requiring doctors to take additional steps before writing prescriptions for opioids went into effect, though some of the questions and concerns raised by doctors about the law are only now just starting to be answered.

A 19-year-old Carson City woman was arrested early Saturday in the 3100 block of S. Edmonds Drive for suspicion of felony hit and run causing injury, driving under the influence first offense and minor consuming alcohol, a Carson City sheriff's deputy said.