Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki told attendees of Wednesday's networking breakfast sponsored by the Northern Nevada Development Authority that he wants the 3.6 billion eyes that the Olympic Winter Games draws focused on one place in 2022: the Reno-Tahoe area.
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Greater Nevada Credit Union (GNCU) recently named Linda Barker as Vice President of Information Technology. Barker is responsible for leading the credit union’s technology initiatives and supporting its internal team, business partners, and members.

RENO, Nev. – Kate McGee has joined 88.7 FM KUNR – Reno Public Radio – as a broadcast journalist, coming to northern Nevada from the East Coast. She recently graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y., with a dual bachelor's degree in American studies and history. She started her public radio career at Fordham’s WFUV Radio as a reporter, anchor and producer, where she covered everything from Mayor Mike Bloomberg to stickball tournaments.

The Northern Nevada Children's Museum will host its 10th Asian New Year celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 21 with crafts, music and dancing. Admission costs for the children's museum are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors 55 and older, $3 for children 2 and older, and free for toddlers.
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JAN 4 - (RENO, NV) – A four month investigation by the Northern Nevada Drug Task Force (NNDTF) has led to the arrest of 8 individuals accused of operating a drug trafficking organization responsible for the regular distribution of methamphetamine in Northern Nevada.

In August of 2011, NNDTF Task Force Officers and Agents initiated an investigation into a mid-level group of suspected methamphetamine dealers suspected of delivering and distributing multiple pounds of methamphetamine throughout the Reno/Sparks area on a monthly basis.

Northern Nevadans will long remember 2011 no matter how much we wish we could forget.

Tragedies or violence at the National Championship Air Races, the Carson City IHOP, the Street Vibrations motorcycle festival, the foothills above Reno and a railroad crossing in Churchill County took lives, destroyed property and dominated the headlines during the second half of 2011.
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A police chief in northern Nevada said Thursday that he decided to use the discovery of marijuana on five Utah-bound buses carrying 250 underage skiers from Northern California as a teaching moment instead of an enforcement headache.
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In Carson City, where employment growth has been less consistent, ... Job growth in Reno-Sparks and Carson City, however, has lagged a bit behind the rest of ...www.nnbw.com/ArticlePrint.aspx?storyID=18606

It's "big-band jazz times two" when the Mile High Jazz Band presents the ninth annual Mile High-Carson High Jazz Extravaganza, on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 7:30 p.m., in the Bob Boldrick Theater at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William Street, Carson City. The event is sponsored by the Mile High Jazz Band Association and the Carson City Band Association to benefit for Carson High Jazz Band programs.

The state's Interim Finance Committee questioned Corrections Director Greg Cox over contradictory plans for running the license plate shop at the Nevada State Prison once the facility closes down. The original plan was for the shop to stay where it is and be run by minimum security inmates. But Cox had also been looking at moving the plant to either the Northern Nevada Correctional Center on the south side of Carson City, or to High Desert State Prison near Las Vegas. He said they didn't currently have the money to make that move.

The IFC also got the final $521,904 bill for the special election to fill Nevada's Second Congressional District seat after Gov. Brian Sandoval appointed Dean Heller to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Ensign.

The IFC also approved funding for 20 of the 30 new positions for the Department of Motor Vehicles approved by the 2011 Legislature. The new positions are supposed to help cut the wait time at DMV offices, which have increased since 85 positions were eliminated due to budget cuts.

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A coalition of organizations is urging the Attorney General's office to reject a multi-state settlement with the banking industry over allegations of widespread falsifying loan documents and other wrongdoing in the wake of the mortgage foreclosure crisis. New York and California have already signaled that they will not sign onto the agreement, and the Attorneys General of Nevada and California recently announced that they will work together to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by the banks.

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The Carson City Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with the Nevada Small Business Development Center at UNR to work together to operate the city's Business Resource Innovation Center, under the leadership of its new director Michael Salogga.

Everyday innocent children in Northern Nevada go to bed hungry. Food For Thought provides food for hungry school children over the weekends and during the summer months. Many of these children live right here in Carson City, our friends and neighbors.

You can help - One person can make a difference. One hungry child is one too many.

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CARSON CITY – Despite ongoing volatility in Nevada’s gaming industry, strong consumer buying is helping to keep the state’s tax revenues on an even keel four months into the new two-year budget, state officials say.

RENO (AP) - Northern Nevada courts are failing to comply with a new state gun-ban notification law, a Reno newspaper's investigation found.The law requires all state courts to send records of peopl...

RENO – Officials and business leaders attending a regional summit on economic development here on Thursday emphasized the need to work together regionally to bring in new employers and create jobs.
The summit, called ReCharge Nevada, was attended by about 300 government officials and business representatives to help create a unified front on efforts to help reverse the state’s highest-in-the-nation unemployment rate.

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RENO (AP) - After the first sellout in the event's 26-year history, organizers of the annual Burning Man festival on the northern Nevada desert have decided to sell tickets under a lottery syste...

What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., is now recognized in November as Native American Heritage Month. Nevada particularly has a rich Native American history, with three tribes — the Washoe, Paiutes and Sho-sho-ne — as being among the first when Europeans visited the area.
In the Carson City and Northern Nevada region, the Washoe tribe dates back at least 9,000 years, with its presence extending to the Lake Tahoe Basin and adjacent east and west slopes and valleys of the Sierra Nevada. Read more here from the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Northern Nevada Business Weekly. - Another Carson City motel property changed ownership last week. Sale of the Super 8 in Motel represents the third ...www.nnbw.com/ArticleRead.aspx?storyID=18366

Local Author, Sandie La Nae, is having a signing for her new "Silver Ghosts Haunted Places and Phantom Encounters in Northern Nevada" book, co-authored with pioneer paranormal investigator, Richard Senate, at the historical St. Charles Hotel.
Also for purchase, the accompanying "Video Journey" CD of the St. Charles Hotel - which has footage, pictures, EVP and stories of paranormal findings by Thin Veil Investigators, the Paranormal Investigative team Sandie is associated with.

... with possible accumulations up to 6 inches above 7000 feet. The Reno-Carson City area will also see blustery conditions. A wind advisory has been issued for most of the day Thursday, and there is a chance of snow on the valley floors Thursday night.

Northern Nevada Business Weekly. - Mary Dinsmore has been named sales manager of the Western Title Co. office in Carson City, and Jeannie Nabicht and ...www.nnbw.com/ArticleRead.aspx?storyID=18300

Navy picks ChromalloyChromalloy Gas Turbine Corp. of Carson City won a contract worth $100,319 to repair and maintain turbine engines for the U.S. Navy.- Northern Nevada Business WeeklyAccredited B...

The top runners in Northern Nevada kick off the two-week postseason today at the NIAA Regional Cross Country Championships at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno.Racing begins at 10 a.m. with the 1A/2A ...

Born and raised in Northern Nevada, Nevada Department of Wildlife Spokesman Chris Healy said he's always been a fan of Nevada Day, especially since as a child, it meant he had Halloween off. So whe...