Contractors Group Asks State Officials To Consider Increased Highway Funding...
CARSON CITY – A contractors representative told the state Transportation Board today that officials missed out on opportunities to increase road funding in the 2011 legislative session, and that...
View ArticleYosemite National Park entrance at Highway 120 Tioga Road opens Saturday
Tioga Road will open for the season on Saturday, June 18 at 8 a.m. for all vehicle traffic, Yosemite National Park officials announced Wednesday.Tioga Road, which is accessed by Highway 395 at Lee...
View ArticleLetter: Vote Democrat? Really?
by Peter Hennessey, Ph.D. This is in reference to the Letter: Think before you vote, Carson City Nevada News - Carson Now.Contrary to the writer's assertions, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barak Obama and...
View ArticleWoman slams car into pedestrian, gas station in South Lake Tahoe
A woman is in custody and a pedestrian was flown by air ambulance from South Lake Tahoe this afternoon after a hit and run accident that happened on 12th and Emerald Bay Road near James Street shortly...
View ArticleCarson City begins emergency notification telephone system
Carson City has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System which is described as an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications.This system allows Carson City...
View ArticleNevada 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 ArticleDon Q's Nevada and Sierra fishing report for August 8-14
By Don Quilici Fishing spots in the Sierra, Lake Tahoe, Northern California and Nevada will be the place to be this week as temperatures will send thousands of anglers to dozens of rivers, lakes and...
View ArticleCarson City men face multiple drug charges after meth and pills found
Two Carson City men, one who is reportedly a former police officer, face drug charges after methamphetamine and pills were discovered late Thursday night. John Logan Christopher, 29, faces felony...
View ArticleFitness on the Wire: Footstrike
CARSON CITY, Nev. — What part of your foot strikes the floor first in your sport, the toe or the heel? Are you a basketball player, a dancer, or a jogger? Do you train with a bicycle, the stairmaster...
View ArticleBusinesses react to high gas prices, biodiesel competitive
As the cost of regular gasoline in Carson Valley approaches $4 a gallon, local businesses are reacting differently to a volatile marketplace where uncertainty itself seems the one stable commodity. .....
View ArticleRobber hits another Carson gas station
For the second time in two weeks, a man armed with a crowbar robbed a
View ArticleFishing report for April 11-17
Here is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada, Northern California, Lake Tahoe, the Sierra and Southern Oregon. This report is for the week of April 11-17, 2012. ANGEL...
View ArticleBerkley, Heller, trade jabs over gas prices
Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley are pointing fingers at each other for rising gasoline prices and trying to tie consumers' pain at the pumps to each other's votes on the...
View ArticleCurry closed south end due to gas line rupture
Construction crews have damaged a gas line at Betts.
View ArticleCarson City is getting a huge Christmas gift (sort of) from Douglas County
An alert Carson City Public Works employee has uncovered a gas tax collection snafu that has sent hundreds of thousands of Carson City gas tax dollars mistakenly to Douglas County. Perhaps as much as...
View ArticleLangson set to unveil second-generation gas-pressure device
Anne Knowles, Northern Nevada Business Weekly Langson Energy Inc. is on a roll. The Carson City company is on its way to Orlando, Fla., next week where it will unveil the second generation of its...
View ArticleNevada gas prices up in all but 1 area of state
Nevada's average gas price is $3.97 after all of the state's metro areas except Carson City saw prices climb in the past month. See Website Read the rest of this story
View ArticleTahoe Transportation District pursues federal grant to fund bikeway around...
STATELINE, LAKE TAHOE — A $20 million federal grant to fund a 75-mile bike path around Lake Tahoe is being pursued by the Tahoe Transportation District according to a statement released to the press...
View ArticleHigh-speed chase ends near Fernley
High-speed chase ends near FernleyNevada Appeal Staff Report A man was arrested early Tuesday morning after he allegedly stole a vehicle in Yerington and led police on a high-speed chase.Gregory Seal,...
View ArticleA Carson man runs from the law. It took them a few minutes and a couple of...
(Click image to play video) When Robert Lee Lopez saw the flashing lights of a cop car behind him Tuesday night, he knew the game was up. So he stomped on the gas and led deputies on a quick high speed...
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