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The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) released the Buy Nevada Holiday Gift Guide for the 2015 holiday season.

Available online, the Buy Nevada catalog highlights Buy Nevada members. With more than 100 businesses from around the state, showcasing the many food and agriculture products produced or processed in Nevada to help consumers shop local on “Shop Local Saturday.”

Great Basin Geeks is pleased to announce that Great Basin Geek Con, Northern Nevada’s largest locally focused pop culture convention, will be held Oct. 17-18, 2015, at Reno Town Mall, 4001 S Virginia St, Reno.

“The folks at Reno Town Mall and Buy Nevada First share our goal of making the Great Basin a great place to be a geek. We want to show just how amazing the people in northern Nevada really are, especially the geeks,” said Michael Ford, Great Basin Geek Con Chairman.

Available online or by download, the Buy Nevada holiday catalog highlights businesses that are Buy Nevada members.

To support the Buy Nevada campaign, special license plates will go on sale at the Department of Motor Vehicles beginning Monday, July 14 with the proceeds to benefit agricultural education and promote the state’s ag industry, the Nevada Department of Agriculture and Nevada FFA announced Friday.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture announced Thursday its newly created Buy Nevada brand program to promote Nevada food and agriculture.

“Buy Nevada has been in planning for more than a year,” said Jim Barbee, director of the Nevada Department of Agriculture. “We have been actively seeking to have a program that promotes the state’s food and agriculture industry as a whole because of the Department’s statutory mandate to advance Nevada agriculture.”

Warren Buffett has found another elephant. Berkshire Hathaway's MidAmerican Energy utility said Wednesday that it will buy Nevada electric and natural gas company NV Energy for $5.6 billion as it expands its footprint in the energy sector.