Fatal accidents in Nevada decline in 2009
(Click image to play video) Call it stepped up law enforcement, higher gas prices, or the recession erupting in full fury, but the fatal accident rate in Nevada dropped quite a bit last year.
View ArticleThe 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 ArticleScoot over: Zimride announces public route to Lake Tahoe
Zimride, the largest online ride-sharing service in North America, today announced that a new route between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe will open to the public beginning Thanksgiving day, bringing Bay...
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 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 ArticleNevada's Promising Clean Energy Future
By Peter Lehner The Copper Mountain Solar 1 facility in Boulder City that President Obama visited Wednesday is certainly impressive. With nearly 1 million solar panels, the nation’s largest operating...
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Outdoors with Don Q: Six-day tour of Northern Nevada
Beginning Wednesday, May 18 and ending on Sunday, May 22, Elaine and I took her 82-year-old Mom, Mary Bottoms, on a six-day tour of rural Nevada. It was her first-ever trip to all kinds of interesting...
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...
View ArticleHigh speed chase bags wanted ex-felon on Burton
Sheriff’s Deputies tried to pull over a suspicious looking car, driving very slowly through the Northridge neighborhood during the 11pm hour Tuesday evening. But instead of pulling over, they say he...
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Outdoors with Don Q: Take a summer vacation at Great Basin National Park
By Don Quilici Here is a suggestion if you would like to take an mid-summer vacation at an out-of-the-way location, right here in the state of Nevada. If you are interested, did you know that our...
View ArticleGov. Gibbons frets about gas prices
(AP) — Gov. Jim Gibbons says gas prices are up as much as 50 cents from just one month ago in tourist-dependent Nevada and other states in the West, and he wants to know why.
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Outdoors with Don Q: Fishing The California Alps
By Don Quilici It’s that time of the year to pick up your copy of a widely-distributed and widely-read annual publication known as “Fishing The California Alps.” That outdoor newspaper is your...
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 ArticleGas, electric rates to drop this winter
Northern Nevada customers of NV Energy will get a break on gas and electric rates this winter thanks to decreases in what NV Energy has to pay for fuel and purchased power.
View ArticleNV Energy warns of telephone scammers threatening to cut off service for payment
Reports of utility scammers continue to surface, with NV Energy being the latest to alert customers about individuals trying to get credit card information.NV Energy spokeswoman Faye Andersen said the...
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Outdoors with Don Q: Escaping Carson City in the wintertime
By Don Quilici For the last several years, Elaine and I have fled Carson City for a short time in the month of February to escape the seemingly, unending cold, snow and ice of our area in the...
View ArticleNevada gas prices drop 11 cents in a month
Carson City's average price is $3.55, a 17-cent drop, and Elko's average is $3.82, a 3-cent decrease. AAA said the price decreases might be slowing as demand increases. “Increased demand for gasoline...
View ArticleWoman jailed for giving officers a fake name to avoid arrest
A 44-year-old Chester, Calif., woman was arrested and faces a felony charge of giving Carson City officers false identification to avoid prosecution after being stopped in a vehicle in which the driver...
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...
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Woman 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...
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