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In this week's edition of It's Your City, host Cortney Bloomer welcomes Lisa Lee, executive director of Advocates to End Domestic Violence, to talk about Saturday's upcoming Taste of Downtown Carson City.

The third annual Sassabration diversity festival launched Saturday morning with a parade from the Brewery Arts Center to Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint at Carson Hot Springs Resort in Carson City.

If you’ve been longing to crawl out from behind your air conditioning this summer, eat some mouth-watering food and experience colorful hijinks, then plan to attend the third annual 2017 Sassabration this Saturday in the parking lot of Carson Hot Springs Resort, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road in Carson City.

The Carson City Senior Center presents the 20th annual Senior Follies this weekend at the Bob Boldrick theater, with shows Friday evening at 7 p.m. and matinee performances Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

It was a night of friends, family and music that soared as headliner The Family Stone and artists Lydia Pense and Cold Blood raised the downtown Carson City skyline Wednesday at the Brewery Art Center's Minnesota Street Stage.

With a dedicated mission to engage, inform and entertain a regional audience, KNVC community radio is broadcasting at 95.1 FM in Carson City, bringing a wide range of local tastes in music that reach the ears of listeners south into Douglas County and north through Washoe Valley.

The 28th annual American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course is launching a new app that will enable users to follow players live throughout this week, July 11-16.

This week's edition of It's Your City with host Cortney Bloomer features Janine Comoletti, president of Carson City PFLAG. The two discuss the upcoming Sassabration celebration on Saturday, July 15 at Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road in the Carson Hot Springs complex.

Two dozen competitive chili cooks armed with ladels and their top-secret recipes stormed the front lawn of Glen Eagles Restaurant Saturday morning to tempt the palates of guests attending the annual High Sierra and Nevada Capitol Regional Chili Cook Off.

Seven months after Carson Dodge Chrysler Jeep owner Jim Cryer broke ground on a new planned service center for his South Carson Street dealership, he watched the ribbon be cut for business Friday afternoon by one of his own new vehicles.

The Brewery Arts Center continues its unforgettable season of free concerts under the stars in Carson City this Saturday with headliner blues legend Guitar Shorty and opening act Reno Indie artist Grace Hayes.

Independence Day fun for the whole family featuring music, games, and contests will be a part of the inaugural July 4 Nevada Hot Dog Eating Contest at the Carson Mall.

Carson City Fire Department, Sheriff's Office and Parks, Recreation and Open Space officials appear in a video produced Friday that explains a shooting ban on city, state and federal land due to extreme fire danger.

Legalization of recreational marijuana in Nevada last fall has brought forth new entrepreneurial opportunities in the Silver State since the first of the year.

Carson City is no exception.

Independence Day fun for the whole family featuring music, games, and contests will be a part of the inaugural July 4 Nevada Hot Dog Eating Contest at the Carson Mall.

This week's It's Your City with host Cortney Bloomer features Karen Abowd who discusses the Greenhouse Project and the upcoming Concert Under the Stars featuring The Family Stone, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Wednesday, July 12 at Brewery Arts Center's Minnesota Street Stage.

Sailors from the USS Nevada nuclear submarine were in Carson City on Sunday for tours of the Nevada State Museum and Nevada State Railroad Museum.

The Carson City Symphony Association presents an elegant evening of music, wine, and dessert on Sunday, July 9, 2017, at 7 p.m. at a private home, 2662 Danielle Drive in Carson City. The house recital features Latin Tres — Vanessa Porter, violin; Marina Rosznitovsky Oster, harp; and Alejandro Pinzón, bandoneon — performing new arrangements of traditional Latin American music.

Tickets for this year’s Fuji Park Flat Trac will be sold at a discounted price until July 1. Tickets purchased before then will be $5 for children and $15 for adults; afterwards prices will go up $5 to $10 for children and $20 for adults. Buy them at visitcarsoncity.com.

Are you ready for a Friday night dance party Carson City? The Levitt-AMP summer concert series opens tonight with jazz swing band greats Big Bad VooDoo Daddy on the Minnesota Street Stage in front of the Brewery Arts Center.

In this edition of It’s Your City, host Cortney Bloomer sits down with Jeff Fast of the Brewery Arts Center to discuss the Levitt-AMP Concert Series that begins this Friday in Carson City featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Reno-Tahoe International Airport will see its first passenger lounge on the concourse to offer food, beverage and wifi amenities later this year, airport officials said Monday.

The live auction has become an integral and fun part of every evening during Concert Under the Stars, A Benefit for The Greenhouse Project, presenting The Family Stone, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Wednesday, July 12 at Brewery Arts Center, Carson City.

A bean bag shotgun blast from Sheriff Ken Furlong signaled the start of the Capital 50 and 35 backcountry rides Saturday in downtown Carson City capping the second day of the 2017 Epic Rides Carson City Off-Road mountain bike racing series.

The featured tellers at this year’s event are Willy Claflin, world music percussion band The Batamba Collective, Mother Lode Storytelling Guild tellers Linda Kennedy and Joan McCammon, and chautauquan Larry Lippmann as “Hank Monk”. The weekend also features early afternoon shows specifically for families and children, an open mic storytelling concert and a storytelling group Carson Valley Memories led by Nancy Raven.

The featured tellers at this year’s event are Willy Claflin, world music percussion band The Batamba Collective, Mother Lode Storytelling Guild tellers Linda Kennedy and Joan McCammon, and chautauquan Larry Lippmann as “Hank Monk”. The weekend also features early afternoon shows specifically for families and children, an open mic storytelling concert and a storytelling group Carson Valley Memories led by Nancy Raven.

Saturday, June 24 starts at 1:00pm with a Family Concert with Willy Claflin. Clafliin is a nationally recognized teller. Check out his website at http://www.willyclaflin.com/

An Instagram message confirms: Cycling legend Lance Armstrong is in Carson City for the Carson City Off-Road Epic Rides event.

The second annual Carson City Off-Road adventure begins Friday with multiple races, a bike and gear expo, and a music festival complete with beer garden, food, on and off-trail and pavement thrills.

Make every move count. The Blue Star Moms Zumba fundraising event features Zin instructors from around Norther Nevada. Join them at Dayton High School, Saturday, July 15 from 10am until 12pm. You’ll find Dayton High School at 335 Dayton Valley Road in Dayton.

Join us at Good Shepherd Wesleyan Church on Sunday, June 25 for a special Gospel Concert with The Craguns. This amazing gospel quartet has been to GSWC before and has always left those in attendance wanting more!