The Carsonist
There’s another new website to keep an eye on. The Carsonist is a site I found out about just the other night, when I met Jens Peermann who runs it. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there, mostly...
View ArticleCarson City and Lake Tahoe area road report through Aug. 10
Here is the Carson City area road report for Aug. 4-10. The Nevada Department of Transportation will be continuing road work on Highway 50 from Deer Run Road in Carson City to just east of Highway 341...
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South Carson Construction
by Scott SchrantzThe summer construction season is fully underway. Here's a look at some of the big projects down that way:Auto DealershipsThe "Auto Row" dream is finally coming true, apparently, with...
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Carson City home destroyed; arson suspected as authorities search for homeowner
Carson City authorities remain on the scene of a fire which destroyed a home early this morning near the intersection of Garnet Way and Ruby Lane. According to Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, a search...
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Bill Would Regulate Use of Hydraulic Fracturing
Jeri Chadwell, Nevada Media Alliance CARSON CITY — The Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining met Thursday to discuss a bill that would require the development of a program to...
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 ArticlePoll: Carson Valley gas tax would drive customers north
The owners of Carson Valley's two AM/PM Mini-markets released the results of a poll that said the number of people who bought gas in Carson City would go from 34 percent to 57 percent if a nicke...
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Carson Tahoe prepares for 'Hazardous' air quality
Jon Tyler, Carson Tahoe Health CARSON CITY — Currently, Carson Tahoe Health has experienced only a slight increase in patient volumes due to respiratory concerns linked to the “Hazardous” air quality...
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'Have a Heart' celebration fundraiser at Glen Eagles generates $31,000 for FISH
By Jim Peckham Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH, raised nearly $31,000 with 37 celebrity waiters and nearly 400 in attendance Saturday night at Glen Eagles in Carson City. This...
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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 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 ArticleNevada gas prices hold steady from last month
Las Vegas Sun The Carson City area has the state's cheapest gas with an average price of $3.55 per gallon. Reno gas averages $3.66 per gallon, and Elko and Sparks tie for ...
View ArticleA different idea for reusing Nugget Project report
I was going through old notes this morning, and found some scribbling I'd done about the old vacant Kmart on North Carson Street, sitting next to a printout of the Meridian Report on the feasibility of...
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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 ArticleCarson Valley Inn and Bodines casinos aim for $15,000 donation to Carson...
For the last six years, the Carson Valley Inn has been the site of the Bunko for Breast Cancer fundraiser — a boisterous evening of fun that raises five figures each year for services to cancer...
View ArticleCarson City resident wins laughing-gas contest
Carson City resident Tiffany O'Day recently won $500 in gas cards as the first-place winner of Greater Nevada Credit Union's Laughing Gas Photo Facebook contest. The contest ran May 1 to June 12, a...
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HorseShoe Club celebrates grand opening Friday of its Downtown Pub and Grille
By Dana Lee Fruend The Carson City HorseShoe Club will host a grand opening party of its newly refurbished Downtown Pub and Grille on Friday, May 9, from noon to 9 p.m.The Downtown Pub and Grille is...
View ArticleCarson City Supervisors to vote on increasing fees for services
Carson City Supervisors will be voting at their Aug. 4 meeting on whether to increase fees for a host of services, including water, sewer, right-of-way-toll, electric and natural gas franchise fees,...
View ArticleCarson City men face reckless driving charges after drag race
Two 18-year-old Carson City men were arrested Monday and face misdemeanor reckless driving charges for drag racing through the east side of town.Carson City Sheriff's Office deputies patrolling the...
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State Treasurer Announces Record Year For Unclaimed Property Returns To Owners
Nevada News Bureau Staff CARSON CITY – State Treasurer Kate Marshall today announced a record year for her office’s Unclaimed Property Division, with nearly $33 million in property returned to its...
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