WNC Baseball: Wildcats keep foot on gas pedal in sweep of Saints
Jamie Craig, Western Nevada College The Western Nevada College Wildcats may look back to Friday, March 14 as a pivotal point in their season. Two dramatic walk-off victories gave the Wildcats a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
President Obama Talks Up Natural Gas Development In Remarks Today In Las Vegas
Nevada News Bureau Staff President Barack Obama visited Las Vegas today on a swing through the West, talking up energy development to create jobs and reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil.In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nevada State Prison history lecture set for August 15
Event Date: August 15, 2013 - 6:00pm By David Bugli CARSON CITY — A bloody palm print, footprints of monster men, the nation's first legal lethal gas chamber — all of this and more are at the heart of...
View ArticleRecycle your holiday turkey grease into biodiesel
By Donna Walden and Heidi Saucedo Bently Biofuels and The Western Sustainability Pollution and Prevention Network are teaming to provide collection sites around the region so that residents have an...
View ArticleAuto insurance bill would hit 40 percent of Nevada motorists
State lawmakers are debating whether the minimum auto liability coverage Nevada drivers need to carry should be raised for the first time since 1954. Assemblyman William Horne (D-Dist. A34) says some...
View ArticleNV Energy giving V&T reconstruction commission $100,000 check
Written by NV Energy Public Information Officer Karl Walquist:The effort to reconstruct the historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad is receiving a boost from NV Energy with a $100,000 grant to the...
View ArticleSupervisors Update – Thursday
A couple of local businesses were fined today for violating the law on selling alcohol to minors. Both stated it was accidental. The Eagle Gas station on South Carson was fined 500 dollars and ordered...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Atlas Shrugged Part I' - politcs as a movie, and not very good
The film "Atlas Shrugged Part 1," opened Friday night at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City. The opening was overshadowed by the first-night celebration the V&T's No. 18 steam locomotive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Romney Rallies Reno Voters In Effort To Win Nevada
Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau RENO – Gov. Mitt Romney fired up a crowd of about 2,000 enthusiastic Northern Nevada voters today, urging them to get to the polls and help him take the battleground...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alpine County's Heenan Lake opens Friday for fishing
By Don Quilici This is a reminder that a special trout fishing season will open on the Friday before Labor Day. August 31, 2012 is the Opening Day of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fishing season at...
View ArticleNDOT Begins Field Test Of Car Tracking Technology For Potential New Tax
The Nevada Department of Transportation says technology it is testing to track car mileage as part of a potential new tax system would not violate drivers’ privacy. NDOT is in the second phase of a...
View ArticleDoug 'Mack the Naw' Busey's Lake Tahoe area fishing report
By Doug Busey Hello fellow anglers. Well here we are only two weeks away from the California opening day fishing season. This when most lakes, rivers and streams open for the year, and some rivers...
View ArticleCarson City road report for the week of July 18-24
The Nevada Department of Transportation will begin a project to mill and overlay a section of US 395 from the junction with US 50 (Spooner) in Carson City to south of Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nevada Among States With Lowest Energy Consumption Per Capita, Gets C+ For...
Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY– Nevada ranks 40th among the states for the amount of energy consumed per person, according to the nonprofit website EnergyTrends.org.The state rankings...
View ArticleThe Greens’ Peak-Oil Limits-to-Growth Apocalypse That Wasn’t
By Ron Knecht A few years ago, some experts predicted the world was about to reach a peak in global oil and gas production to be followed soon by marked decline. It would cause “war, famine,...
View ArticleHeller Formally Announces U.S. Senate Run To Supporters
By Elizabeth Crum / Nevada News Bureau At 8:12 a.m. this morning, Rep. Dean Heller finally sent an email to his supporters announcing the U.S. Senate run I confirmed here last week.Heller has a pretty...
View ArticleFive Guys Burgers Coming to Carson
AroundCarson.com I guess it's a good sign to see new retail going up, even if there are empty storefronts nearby. Some new construction is happening in the parking lot of the south Walmart, on the...
View ArticleNevadans should see relief to high gas prices
Yun Long, Reno Gazette-Journal Gas prices across Nevada continue to rise in March, but relief is on the horizon. The average price for regular unleaded gasoline was $3.83 a gallon, according to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Outdoors with Don Q: What you need to know about ice fishing
By Don Quilici With the bitter January cold weather in the Sierra behind us, we do have plenty of water frozen on our creeks, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and reservoirs. And that ice covering...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nevada Tax Collections Remain On Track Overall Despite Gaming Volatility
Sean Whaley CARSON CITY – Despite ongoing volatility in Nevada’s gaming industry, strong consumer buying is helping to keep the state’s tax revenues on an even keel four months into the new two-year...
View Article