Trout fishing season opener at Alpine County's Heenan Lake
This is my annual reminder that a special window set aside for fishing begins on the Friday before Labor Day. Sept. 2, 2011 is the Opening Day of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fishing season at Heenan...
View ArticleSouth Lake Tahoe authorities make arrest in 31-year murder case of Richard...
A Carmichael, Calif., man has been arrested in the 31-year-old murder case of Richard Swanson, South Lake Tahoe police report. On March 28, 2012 Andrew Sanford, 50, of Carmichael, was arrested and...
View ArticleA Personal ‘Stimulus Check’ Might Be Waiting For You At Nevada Unclaimed...
CARSON CITY – I checked with high hopes, but alas, my dreams of finding a pot of gold did not materialize. Maybe you will have better luck. The state has $490 million sitting around that it wants to...
View ArticleWomen to Women Nevada with Katherine Lima
Women to Women Nevada with Carol Paz welcomes this week's guest, Katherine Lima, a member of the Advisory Board at Carson Valley Medical Center and member of Crystal Angels, a local organization 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 ArticleOutdoors with Don Q: Take a Canadian vacation trip for 2014
By Don Quilici Last week, I wrote about our visit to the remote Ookpik Wilderness Lodge on Babine Lake in British Columbia. This week, I would like to offer a suggestion for taking a 2014 vacation...
View ArticleNevada 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 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 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 ArticleWith a name like “clunker,” it had to be popular…
(Click image to play video) A wildly popular federal-run program that allows owners of gas guzzlers to get big discounts on a new gas-sipping vehicle has drained the money pot. They’re looking for more...
View ArticleFresh Ideas: Americans burying heads in sand on climate issue
Fresh Ideas: Americans burying heads in sand on climate issueBy Anne Macquarie For the Nevada Appeal Last month India and China signed a major agreement on combating climate change, and the government...
View ArticleNobody Asked Us, But ... Get ready for 'Thieve's Carnival' at Children's Museum
Carolyn is thankful for the gas company, because you can get a "
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 ArticleNevada briefly
Nevada brieflyStaff Writer Girl dies after collapsing in Sparks SPARKS (AP) - School officials say a 13-year-old girl has died after collapsing at a Sparks middle school.A Reno newspaper reported on...
View ArticleRobber hits another Carson gas station
For the second time in two weeks, a man armed with a crowbar robbed a
View ArticleGibbons frets about gas prices
CARSON CITY, Nev (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.
View ArticleReport Suggests Economic Growth May Soon Be Under Way In Nevada
By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – While much of the economic news about Nevada is gloom and doom, a new report prepared for Secretary of State Ross Miller shows new business filings in...
View ArticleOutdoors with Don Q: Another fun-filled day in the great outdoors visiting...
By Don Quilici Elaine and I spent an enjoyable day in the Great Outdoors last Sunday, which included spincasting for trout and taking photographs. It was a fun-filled day that you might want to...
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 ArticleBehind the scenes of a legislature reporter (this one, anyway)
nvmediaalliance by MOLLY MOSERI’ve successfully reported the very first half of the legislature and have been through quite a lot. The majority of the experiences are good and quite silly and I would...
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