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A Carson City man was arrested Thursday for a felony warrant alleging he obtained money by false pretenses and diverted construction funds, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City is back to full operations just in time for the Memorial Day Weekend and the busy summer season. Construction crews this week completed removal of more than 110,000 square feet of debris and repairs to the tracks on the museum grounds that were damaged by flooding in January.

The Nevada Department of Transportation this week launched a newly-redesigned nevadadot.com website providing quicker and easier access to Nevada road information.

The Governor’s Office of Energy (GOE) recently awarded $76,000 to help Carson City implement a $4.1 million project that will conserve energy and reduce the city’s operational costs.

This is the eighth column in a series presenting findings and conclusions of Nevada’s 2016 Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR), posted at controller.nv.gov. Here, we address critical problems facing economic growth in Nevada.

Last week, I wrote about my strategic partnership with Adams Hub for Innovation. I suggested you don’t have to do business, life, or your career alone. I framed it as seeking help through mentors and coaches. Yet, there’s another angle I would like to show you – the strategic partnership.

8AM TUESDAY: From Nevada Highway Patrol: Highway 395 southbound lane in Carson Valley from Sunridge to Stephanie now open in the No. 1 (left) lane. Traffic now running both north and south.
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UPDATE 6:08AM TUESDAY: Highway 395 through the Carson Valley remains closed southbound, but open northbound, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation, NDOT. Southbound detour at Jacks Valley Valley Road to Foothill.
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UPDATE 5:15PM: Traffic continues to crawl along Jacks Valley Road and Foothill due to the Highway 395 closure.
One lane of Highway 395 northbound has reopened at Stephanie. Southbound is still closed.
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UPDATE 2:45PM: Both the northbound and southbound lanes on Highway 395 are closed due to flooding along the Cradlebaugh Bridge in Carson Valley, said Carson City Undersheriff Steve Albertsen. Southbound Highway 395 motorists are advised to take Jacks Valley Road and connect to Foothill Road. The Nevada Highway Patrol is turning people around at the RV park, he said.
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Cradlebaugh Bridge near Stephanie Way in Carson Valley is beginning to flood into the southbound lanes of Highway 395. Traffic controls on Highway 395 are in effect and a portion of the road is now closed.

State Route 207 Kingsbury Grade from the summit down to the Carson Valley floor will be closed to traffic "through the coming weeks" due to a sinkhole caused by an eroding drainage pipe under the roadway, the Nevada Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

The one thing scarier for a child than not being home at Christmas is to be fighting cancer at the same time.

But it's a reality for a number of Northern Nevada children and their families this year.

Top Notch Distributors, Inc., a national supplier of architectural locksets and hardware for residential and commercial buildings with offices in Carson City, Missouri and Massachusetts, has completed the addition of 33,000 square feet of warehouse space in its Northern Nevada operation.

Click Bond, Inc. kicked off its 30th anniversary celebration in Carson City this week with the opening of Building 51, the company’s engineering and design hub, newly renovated by Carson-based Shaheen Beauchamp Builders LLC.

Shaheen Beauchamp Builders LLC is celebrating the grand re-opening of the historic Murdock Building at 318 No. Carson Street in Carson City today, Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - More than 200 soldiers participated today in a memorial run here to honor three Nevada guardsmen and one civilian killed five years ago in the Carson City IHOP shooting.

On Sept. 6, 2011, Nevada Guardsmen Lt. Col. Heath Kelly, 35, Master Sgt. Christian Riege, 38, Sgt. 1st Class Miranda McElhiney, 31, and Florence Donovan-Gunderson, 67, were killed in the shooting.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and its partners have started work on the Shoreline Plan, a collaborative planning process to enhance recreation and protect Lake Tahoe’s 72 miles of shoreline.

William Dakota Gershel and Timothy Ibarra, both seniors at Carson High School, have participated in Career and Technical Education programs since attending CHS as freshman. Ibarra participated in two years of auto technician courses and two years in auto body courses. Gershel experimented in a variety of CTE courses including culinary, web design and welding.

Jeff Haag has been named Nevada State Purchasing Division Administrator.Haag brings 15 years of private sector experience including at Southwest Airlines as well as contracting for state and federal government.He ...

Carson City based Miles Construction has hired Victor Mejorado as a project engineer to support project management teams on two large regional projects, the AquaMetals lead battery recycling AquaRefinery and the Fulcrum BioEnergy Sierra feedstock processing facility.

Miles Construction has hired mechanical engineer Jeff Rowan to add to their team of project managers. With more than 28 years of experience in the processing and construction industries, Rowan will be leading Miles’ more complex industrial projects.

Rowan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. He holds an ISO 9000 certification, considered the highest standard for quality management in the industry.

Miles Construction of Carson City, Nev. congratulates Bently Enterprises for receiving a Development Award at the recent Summit Awards, held Saturday, April 11 at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nev.

South Lake Tahoe and Stateline have been picked as the host locations for the 2018 Mountain Travel Symposium, the largest gathering of alpine travel and tour professionals, ski clubs, lodging and property management companies in North America. It is the South Shore's first time to host the event.

Initial approval of an altered animal services ordinance secured 3-1 approval from Carson City’s Board of Supervisors Thursday despite questions about policing language.

The Nevada Business Group on Health announces its Building Common Knowledge presentation on the topic of Value-Based Benefit Design, a health benefit savings strategy that draws on a variety of incentive strategies that address the way health insurance plans are structured and utilized by employees and their dependents.

The seminar, led by benefit design thought-leader and Executive Director of the Mississippi Business Group on Health, Murray Harber will be held at noon at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino on June 12, 2014.

A cornerstone of the South Lake Tahoe visitor area adjacent to Heavenly Village, fence boards were removed Monday from the Chateau project at the corner of Highway 50 and Stateline, an area hit hard by the economic downturn but has since rebounded because of investor confidence.

Stalled in 2008 amidst the U.S. economic crisis, work resumed on the site after Owens Financial earned unanimous approval for building permits from the South Lake Tahoe City Council in August 2013.

The Nevada Business Group on Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to representing more than 70 Northern Nevada employers and their employees in matter related to cost-effective health, health care and health insurance products and services, has appointed Denise Darling, director of finance at Carson Nugget Casino in Carson City, to its board of directors.

CARSON CITY — State agencies appear to have dramatically reduced their frequency of contracting with current and former employees since a law regulating the practice took effect in July 2011.

Employers wanting to know about what to expect from the Affordable Care Act are invited to a Carson City luncheon next month hosted by the Nevada Business Group on Health.

The “Look into Your Future” luncheon on Dec. 4 will feature guest speaker Russ Sullivan, attorney and vice president of Health Care Solutions for the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, who will present an interactive session that draws upon lessons from Massachusetts’ seven-year health care reform experience. Sullivan will provide insight into how to prepare for the changes ahead.

A Carson City family trust wishes to trade the historic Pioneer Cemetery and a 19-acre hill site south and west of Ormsby Boulevard and Kings Canyon Road. The Potter Family Trust would receive the equivalent in city land if such a land trade were to happen.
As part of the process, Carson City leaders will decide when they meet Thursday whether to appoint Stephen R. Johnson and Associates as the indendent appraiser for the potential exchange.

This is the second in a series of four articles on a recent sightseeing and fishing trip that Elaine and I took to the Yukon in June. This one is about an unforgettable train ride over White Pass Summit.
We arrived in Whitehorse late on June 18 and the next morning, we left, bright and early, for an all-day combination tour bus and train ride from Whitehorse, Yukon to Carcross, Yukon; to Fraser, British Columbia; to Skagway, Alaska; and then the return to Whitehorse.

North Lake Tahoe is gearing up to host the 37th Annual Mountain Travel Symposium, one of the world’s premier ski industry wholesale conferences, April 15-21 at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Olympic Valley, Calif. This is the second time North Lake Tahoe has been the designated conference host, having held the event with its 1,200 attendees back in 2006.

Recognized for stewardship and care taken in the building and construction of developments around Lake Tahoe, the 22nd annual Best in the Basin awards were announced Tuesday by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
The TRPA, which sets policy for development around Lake Tahoe, will recognize the winners, listed below, during the 2011 Best in the Basin awards presentation during the meeting of its Governing Board on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in Stateline. Go here for the agenda.