It's Your City: Concert for center that helps Carson City homeless to feature Tom Petty tribute with Michael Furlong Band

The summer baseball season is officially over and with it comes the final undefeated win for the Carson High School Blue Jays B Team.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture Animal Disease Laboratory has confirmed two cases of rabies this year. Detections were made in bats from Carson City and Clark County.

We are a culture with a gun problem exacerbated by a rage problem, resulting in an era of political violence. So here we are, in this hot summer of ‘24, recognizing that we are the canaries in the coal mine. It’s hotter than the hinges on The Gates of Hades, and The Gates of Hades are hotter than usual with the heavy flow of traffic passing through them these days.

UPDATE: The Fish Springs fire is contained and controlled. The Sunrise Fire in the Pine Nut Mountains is 60 percent contained as of Tuesday morning, with no fire growth overnight.
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UPDATE 8:23PM: The fire in the Fish Springs area was reportedly 0.1 of an acre, while the Sunrise Fire in the Pine Nut Mountains has been resized to 5.3 acres, according to Minden dispatch.

Two were arrested Sunday for felony possession of having personal identifying information such as IDs, birth certificates and passports that didn't belong to them, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report.

The next Carson City School Board meeting will take place Tuesday, July 23 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Bob Crowell Board Room of the Community Center locate at 851 E. William St.

Trustees will discuss an AI and head injury policies, strategic plan goals, teacher resignations and more.

Traffic was backed up Monday morning due to an overturned semi on USA Parkway State Route 439 and the Highway 50 roundabout near Silver Springs.

Nevada State Prison Preservation Society (NSPPS) President Maurice White is the guest speaker at the next Rotary Club of Carson City meeting. The public is invited to attend the meeting which takes place Tuesday, July 23, at noon, in the Brewery Art Center’s Grand Ballroom.

Come join the Capital Area Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship at Summer Fun Days on Saturday, July 27, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mills Park in Carson City, 1111 E William Street.

Western Nevada College students are gravitating toward summer research projects in record numbers.
For the second year in succession a record number of students participated in the IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program.

Come out to the Bank Saloon in Carson City Wednesday, July 31 and meet the candidates that are currently running in Northern Nevada, and learn more about the issues that are important to you and your community.

Users of the popular multi-use paved trails throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee will find new messages stenciled in chalk along the trails encouraging trail etiquette.

Joy Holt, Director of the Carson City library received a $55,000 check this month from Phil Patton, Treasurer of the Friends of the Carson City Library. Friends is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1966. Since that time the Friends of the Carson City Library has donated its substantial support to many library projects and much needed acquisitions.

UPDATE: There have been a few more earthquakes centered in the middle of Lake Tahoe on Saturday evening. According to USGS, there was a 3.4 magnitude just after 8 p.m., followed by 1.5 at 8:05 p.m., and a 2.8 at 8:19 p.m. The University of Nevada reports several small ones during the day, all under 1.0 magnitude.
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Two small earthquakes happened in the middle of Lake Tahoe on Saturday at 7:19 a.m. and 7:49 a.m. The University of Nevada Seismology Lab measured them at 2.34 and 1.9, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) measured them at 2.8 and 2.5 magnitude.