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The Nevada Division of Industrial Relations Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Safety Consultation and Training Section are urging businesses to assess the risk to and protect workers from exposure to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.

Carson City Health and Human Services is closely monitoring the current outbreak of a new 2019 Novel Coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. To date, there are no confirmed or suspected cases of Coronavirus in Nevada.

UPDATE 1:48PM: All phone lines affecting Lyon County and Douglas County dispatch are now back up and working, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. The cause of the outage is unknown at this time.
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UPDATE: From Douglas County: the regular non-emergency number is back up and running.
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As of Sunday morning, some phones for the Douglas County and Lyon County Sheriff's Office, including dispatch are down. 911 lines in Douglas County were not affected but other lines were down.

The Nature Conservancy in Nevada, in partnership with the Nevada Division of Natural Heritage and the Desert Research Institute, recently completed the Nevada Wetland Rapid Assessment Method, a draft assessment protocal developed as a product of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant awarded to NDNH.

Cold temperatures and dry air have created ideal conditions for making snow in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Heavenly Mountain Ski Resort, Northstar California Resort and Kirkwood Mountain Resort all plan to take advantage of this week’s cool weather window to build a solid base for the upcoming 2019-20 winter season.

California’s native Paiute cutthroat trout, the rarest trout in North America, swims once again in its high Sierra home waters for the first time in more than 100 years.

RENO — The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded more than $12.5 million to seven universities and a university-governed non-profit to support operation, improvement and expansion of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the United States.

Hello fellow anglers, Just returned from a couple weeks of fishing from our local area to the Rogue River Valley in Oregon. The day we arrived, they had a wild fire that started at 200 acres and by the next day it was over 10,000. Grants pass was smokey and hard to breath, so Renee, my cousin Steve and I ventured to Brookings OR to do some salmon fishing.

Two Carson City Detention Center inmates were booked early Tuesday for suspicion of felony drug possession after an investigation by jail staff.

RENO — Northern Nevadans who are uninsured, underinsured or without a social security number can receive free medical care this August and September 2019 at upcoming University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Student Outreach Clinics.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Sandy Severance, program director at Nevada Rural Counties Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). A 501(c)(3) non-profit, RSVP has a 43-year record of service to the elderly and other citizens in need of assistance in all 15 of Nevada's rural counties. Volunteers 55 and older are provided meaningful opportunities to draw on their lifetime of experience to serve their communities in a variety of settings.

RENO — An ongoing sequence of more than 60 small earthquakes that began in the early morning hours today is centered in the Sun Valley area – they are too small to be felt. But, more than 1,200 people filed “felt reports” following the magnitude 3.7 earthquake in Washoe Valley the night of June 6. The shaking is a gentle reminder that Nevadans live in the third most seismically active state in the nation, behind Alaska and California.

Eminent scientists Dr. Charles Goldman, Dr. Sudeep Chandra and other panelists will be featured guests at Western Nevada College in Carson City where they will talk about local impacts of droughts, floods, fires and warming temperatures on the regional economy and future generations.

The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for West Walker River from north of Sonora Junction in Mono County to southern Mason Valley in Lyon County from Tuesday evening June 11, 2019, until the threat has passed.

The next Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting will be held Thursday, June 6, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Sierra Room of the Community Center, located at 851 E. William Street.

To be discussed are funding, contract purchases, grants, special event costs, and more.

A 35-year-old Carson City woman was arrested in the 1000 block of Woodside Drive on Friday evening for domestic battery first after deputies were dispatched to the area in reference to a person who was attempting to gain access into other tenants’ vehicles, according to a sheriff's deputy report.

STATELINE, Nev. — The Tahoe Regional Transportation Agency’s Governing Board approved a $50,000 settlement Wednesday with the California Department of Transportation and Stewart Engineering regarding permit violations that occurred on California Highway 89 near Emerald Bay in 2018.

CARSON CITY — One Army Reservist was killed and four Nevada Army National Guardsmen were injured in a military vehicle rollover accident during training early Wednesday morning at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana, according to a Nevada State Public Affairs Officer for the Nevada National Guard.

The Nevada Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training announced Wednesday that 24 graduates from 16 agencies from around the Silver State will accept their peace officers’ oath as the POST Academy Class 2019-01.

Nature’s gifts to our planet are the millions of plant and animal species that we know and love, and many more that remain to be discovered. In recognition of this year’s official Earth Day theme, “Protect our Species,” the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (NDCNR) is helping to educate communities about the many wonders of Nevada’s native species, and strategies underway to help advance biodiversity and foster thriving ecosystems.

Nevada Department of Agriculture has received reports that two horses that were in attendance at the National Reined Cow Horse Association Stallion Stakes event have tested positive for the respiratory, non-neurologic form of Equine Herpes Virus – Type 1. One horse was from California, and the second was from Clark County and is under quarantine order by State Veterinarian JJ Goicoechea.

Indoor cyclists burned at least 2,000 calories and rode about 50 miles within the first 20 minutes at Life Cycle Elite Spin Studio's 24-hour community ride Friday.

The event was organized by Jill Larson, who coordinated with the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Nevada and the Healthy Habits Program.

In the wake of a scathing legislative audit that found deplorable living conditions in community homes for the mentally ill, Nevada lawmakers took up a bill on Friday that would place the facilities more squarely under the thumb of state health inspectors.

Lyon County crews have been working around the clock addressing flash flooding and snow removal. The area of east Dayton known as the Ranchos still has standing water in many locations.

Lyon County road crews continue to address flash flooding and snow removal on Thursday. Currently the retention basin at the area of Dayton Valley Road and Sutro is filling and may overflow by Thursday afternoon, said Lyon County Manager Jeff Page.

Continued rain on melting snow has prompted the National Weather Service to issue an Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory on Thursday morning for Carson City, Douglas, Southern Washoe, Northern Lyon and Storey counties.

In Nevada, the most parched state in the nation, flowers grow under rocks. They bloom in ghost towns, wave atop mountains, and bud under neon lights. Explorer John Charles Frémont began cataloging the flora that flourish throughout the State in the 1840s.

On Friday, Feb. 8, 19-year-old Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman appeared in Carson City Justice Court before Judge Tom Armstrong for his arraignment hearing.

Prosecution prepared a stipulation to transfer Martinez-Guzman to Washoe County to face the more pressing charges of murder. Martinez-Guzman and his attorney agreed.

Martinez-Guzman waived the right to a preliminary hearing within 15 days in order to be transferred to Washoe County.

A pre-trial conference date in Carson City has been set for July 10 for a status check. Martinez-Guzman will not be required to be in attendance for it.

CARSON CITY — 2018 was an exciting year for the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. As we put 2018 in the rear-view mirror, we’d like to celebrate some of our more notable highlights from the past year, and share a glimpse into what’s in store for 2019.

The 8th annual SnowGlobe Music Festival got underway in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday with an estimated 20,000 visitors expected to attend the three-day music festival that continues New Year's Eve on Monday night.