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Anticipation of graduation and trepidation about the future are the thoughts running through the veins of the Carson High School Class of 2019 as they contemplate walking onto the football field as high school seniors and bouncing off the football field as CHS graduates looking forward to the new places and faces of tomorrow.

More than 300 Special Olympics athletes from across the state will converge this weekend in Reno for the annual Special Olympics Nevada (SONV) Summer Games. The torch was carried through Carson City Friday on its way to the games.

Hello fellow anglers, this will be a Memorial weekend to remember. Pack the jackets and leave the tank tops at home. Make sure you bring plenty of tarps to keep your firewood dry, and don't forget the umbrella and canopies, this year it won't be to keep the sun from beating down on us.

Early June events will launch the 2019 Summer Festival at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park in Douglas County.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will continue a project to eradicate, control, and contain known infestations of invasive plants in the Lake Tahoe Basin using chemical treatment. Work will take place at approximately 90 infestations sites (105 acres) beginning in late May and continuing through September 2019.

Kicking off its 2019 season, V&T Railway will hold a special Mother’s Day train on Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12. Guests will experience a 24-mile round-trip ride through the historic Comstock, departing Carson City (Eastgate Depot) at 10 a.m. and will arrive in Virginia City at approximately 11:30 a.m., before returning to Carson at 4:15 p.m.

UPDATE: 12:20 a.m. Sunday. The fire appears to be out. No injuries have been reported. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.

UPDATE 11:00 p.m.: Central Lyon County fire has also arrived to offer assistance to the Carson City Fire Department. Red Cross has been advised due to the displacement of residents.

A fire broke out just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday night near the 3900 block of Pheasant Drive and Mockingbird Way.

According to dispatch, the fire is a structure fire involving a 4-plex. There is heavy smoke in the area, and it is unclear at this point how many units are affected.

The warm spring weather around Carson City and western Nevada will end Tuesday as daytime temperatures are expected to plummet by 25 degrees or more bringing a hard freeze by late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and the potential for snow showers in the foothills, forecasters say.

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is once again coordinating the collaborative efforts of federal, state and local fire services; public safety agencies; community organizations; and others to participate in Nevada Wildfire Awareness Month throughout May.

Hello fellow anglers, opening day fishing season for California is only a week away. But, before we get to your pre-season report. There are rumors that may have fact to them going around.

California is looking into changing fishing seasons on many lakes and streams. Some areas may be open all year round and possibly change restrictions on others. Since Topaz is a bi-state body of water, the opening day ceremony that so many have come to love and look forward to on January 1st of each year may be a thing of the past.

Lane Johnson is 37 years old, is the wife of a firefighter with Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District and the mother of four young children ranging in age from 3 to 12.

Approximately 5 years ago, she noticed an annoying sore that caused her discomfort on the side of her tongue and sought medical attention. She was told by an oral surgeon it may be a yeast infection and was given medicine to treat it with instructions to follow up in a week.

Robert C. Gray, 97, of Orinda, California passed away peacefully at home April 3, 2019. Robert was born in Oakland, California to Harry E. Gray and Kathleen S. Carter on August 13, 1921.

Robert was kind, energetic and lived a full life. He was an advanced stamp collector and in 1935 he attended the first Boy Scout National Jamboree at Washington D.C.

CARSON CITY — Western Nevada College is delighted to announce that J. Kyle Dalpe, Ph.D., will join the college as Vice President of Instruction and Institutional Effectiveness on July 1, 2019.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Friday, March 29, 2019. Today is the end of the work week and the beginning of a brief break from unsettled weather. Expect mostly sunny skies today with daytime highs in the low 50s. The warmup continues into the weekend, with a chance for rain on Monday.

While it still feels like winter, with a healthy snowpack and ski resorts reporting record monthly snowfall in February, another building season is fast approaching. One of the questions people ask the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency each year is why they have to pay mitigation fees for their development, like new homes and remodeling projects.

CARSON CITY — When Hollywood in the first half of the 20th Century set its cameras on telling the story of the Transcontinental Railroad, the search for artifacts led it straight to Virginia City and Nevada’s historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

Residents of Carson City and surrounding communities are waking up Saturday morning to a rain and snow mix with temperatures in the 30s.

We can expect wet conditions throughout the weekend, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Reno reports, with 100 percent chance of showers Saturday and a high temperature into the mid-40s.

Squeeze In’s new Carson City location officially opened for business Thursday, with net proceeds from their opening day going to the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada.

Carson City Firefighter-Paramedics were called to the scene of a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 580 in Washoe Valley near the Bellevue overpass Saturday night.

The collision in the northbound travel lanes resulted in the rollover of one vehicle.

The National Weather Service in Reno issued a Flood Advisory on Wednesday afternoon for western Carson City, Douglas County, southern Washoe County and other areas of the region including South Lake Tahoe.

Lyon County is taking a proactive approach with the anticipated upcoming storm. With rain predicted in higher elevations the threat of flash flooding is a concern, said County Manager Jeff Page. Lyon County crews are establishing self fill sandbag stations at the following locations:

RENO, Nev. – Chickadees with better learning and memory skills, needed to find numerous food caches, are more likely to survive their first winter, a long-term study of mountain chickadees has found.

Enhanced spatial cognition and brain power evolves via natural selection, an elaborate study of hundreds of mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada has found. Using passive integrative transponder tags in combination with radio frequency identification-equipped feeders, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno have tracked feeding behaviors and measured learning and memory of these non-migratory birds that live year-round in the high-elevation forest northwest of Truckee, Calif.

Carson City firefighter-paramedics were initially called to assist with a two-vehicle rollover accident that occurred Monday afternoon in the southbound lanes of Interstate 580 at the Bellevue overpass in Washoe Valley.

However, the Carson City units were recalled while en route. There is no extrication at the scene of the accident, according to Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District rescuers on scene.

Nevada Highway Patrol, Truckee Meadows Fire and REMSA are currently on scene working the accident. No word yet on the extent of any injuries.

The Nature Conservancy has named Lori Leonard as the new preserve manager at River Fork Ranch Preserve outside of Genoa.

“I’ve been working for The Nature Conservancy as a Restoration Technician at the McCarran Ranch Preserve on the Truckee River for nearly four years,” explains Leonard. “Now, I’m really looking forward to bringing my conservation skills and background to the beautiful Carson Valley. I’m excited to engage with community members to make the most of this incredible preserve and to build on the success that TNC and partners have had here over nearly two decades.”

No high school on the planet has as many events regularly happening as that of Carson High School, and one of the biggest of the year, Winterfest, begins Feb. 1. This year, Leadership class has determined the theme will be Winterflix, a play on the popular Netflix streaming service that allows customers to watch a wide variety of award-winning TV shows, movies, documentaries, and more on thousands of internet-connected devices.

People, even Nevadans themselves, often ask why Carson City is our beloved capital. It does seem odd, when you look at the “City,” half rural, half town. Reno has more than double our population, and Las Vegas even more. During the Comstock Boom, Virginia City was arguably the largest, most profitable city in the state.

So how did little Carson City become the central legislative hub of Nevada?

A major winter storm will bring blizzard conditions and several feet of snow to Lake Tahoe and Sierra into Thursday night with heavy rain around the Carson City and lower valley regions, according to the National Weather Service.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. With snow plow efforts underway and a warm-up from Mother Nature, it looks like the morning commute will be a slushy one. Carson City schools will operate today at normal start times. That all may change tomorrow though as a significant winter storm is expected to bring snow and rain to the valley and feet of snow to Lake Tahoe and the Sierra. Stay tuned.

Virginia City is known for two things: mining history and quirky, off-the-wall events. In 2019, those two things are joined together with the announcement of the historic Nevada town’s annual special events lineup and online ticket sales.

The Carson City School District welcomes two new school board members: Lupe Ramirez, District 1, and Richard Varner, District 4. Ramirez and Varner were accompanied by Stacie Wilke-McCulloch, District 3, and Don Carine, District 6, at the Carson City Court House Monday, Jan. 7, as all four took their oaths of office and were sworn in as elected city officials.