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Downtown Carson City street closures for the 2018 Epic Rides Carson City Off Road mountain bike racing circuit take affect beginning at 5 a.m. Friday, June 15 through the event's conclusion at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, June 17, according to maps provided by the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City.

The Nevada State Fair entered its third day of carnival, Rendezvous and historical reenactments Saturday at Mills Park in Carson City.

Carson City Symphony's 34th annual Pops Party concert will be held at the Capital Amphitheater, between the Capitol and Legislature Buildings on Sunday, June 10, at 6 p.m. The program features the Carson City Symphony, Carson City Symphony Chorus, and guest singer Cherie Shipley. Admission is free.

A building permit to open a new Smart Foodservice wholesale food distribution and service store at 222 Fairview Drive, right next door to Office Depot, is currently under review by the Carson City Planning Division, according to the June report of the Carson City Community Development Department.

The Mile High Jazz Band with vocalists Jakki Ford and June Joplin will be joined by six poets and readers for "Oh, Say Can You C?," a lively evening of big-band jazz music and poetry.

Sassabration, an annual celebration of diversity, is returning to Carson City July 14 in the parking lot of Carson Hot Springs Resort, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road.

A ceremony to dedicate the new Charters of Freedom installation on the grounds of the Carson City Courthouse will be held Thursday, June 14 from noon to 1 p.m. at 885 East Musser Street in Carson City.

The annual Carson City Fair — a combination of carnival, agriculture, local exhibits and entertainment — is returning to the Nevada state capital July 25-29, 2018 at the Fuji Park Fairgrounds.

The iconic blue line marking the Kit Carson Trail that winds its way through the west side historic district of Carson City will be replaced by another way-finding method, said Carson City Public Works Senior Transportation Planner Dirk Goering.

Local organizers for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Great Strides fundraising event are urging community members to come out and walk Sunday at Mills Park in Carson City.

Little Monsters Children's Resale Store in Carson City is closing permanently May 25 after almost five years in business, said the Chambers family, who opened the retail operation in the fall of 2013.

To residents and visitors of Winnemucca, the name Martin means food and family.

The historic Martin Hotel, constructed in 1878, has stood as a pillar of both for more than a century.

The historic McKeen Motor Car, a self-propelled gasoline rail car, opened the 2018 season at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City Saturday with 35-minute rides.

City officials and members of Q&D Construction gathered Monday morning at Telegraph Square in downtown Carson City to mark the beginning of the $3.99 million Downtown Curry Streetscape Project, a continuation of the downtown revitalization plan.

Carson City will be the first location in the western United States to host a permanent display of America’s founding documents, organizers with Carson City Charters of Freedom and Foundation Forward, Inc., have announced.

Groundbreaking for the next phase of Carson City’s downtown corridor revitalization is scheduled for 8 a.m. Monday, April 30 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Telegraph Square, where North Curry and West Telegraph streets intersect.

The number of available foster homes in Carson City is so low right now that siblings cannot reside together in emergency foster care, a local panel of child welfare advocates said.

Roller derby athletes with at least minimum skills turned out Sunday afternoon to skate in the Key Club Knockout event held at the Carson City Community Center gymnasium.

When organizers formed the Greenhouse Project 10 years ago in Carson City, their vision was to establish a sustainable program that provided wholesome, natural produce to the community.

What Carson City has benefited from over the past decade is exactly that.

About a decade ago, a group of community members organized a sustainable horticulture program targeting food insecurity in Carson City. They called it the Greenhouse Project, a not-for-profit effort to improve the quality of food available to the area’s most hungry.

BooBoo's Buddies, a brand new pet hotel, daycare, boutique and spa in northeast Carson City, held its ribbon cutting Thursday at 1749 Old Hot Springs Road.

But the star of the evening was BooBoo herself.

Join the celebration! For 17 years, Mile High Jazz Band has been performing monthly jazz performances in Carson City. Celebrate this milestone on Tuesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. Hear sensational big-band music with vocalist June Joplin at Living the Good Life Bistro, 1480 N. Carson Street in Carson City. Admission is free, donations welcome.

You can help Carson City’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department during the month of April by voting in the "Meet Me at the Park" campaign, an initiative to improve interactive access to local parks.

Carson City isn't particularly known for its night or dance clubs. But one local non-profit group caters to the needs of some residents who like to cut a rug or bust a groove for a good time.

Every seat is the People's seat!

The Carson City Republican Central Committee invites all Carson City registered republican voters to attend your county precinct meeting scheduled for Saturday, March 24 at the Plaza Event Center, 211 E. Ninth Street in Carson City from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Doors open at 8 a.m.

Be sure to take your seat at the Carson City Republican Party Precinct Meeting.

This meeting will finalize precinct organization, elect 270 delegates to the County Convention, and allow you to offer ideas for the party platform.

Troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol, as well as other employees for the Nevada Department of Public Safety will be participating in the South Lake Tahoe “Polar Plunge” on Sunday, March 18.

UPDATE 8:14AM: All schools in the Douglas County School District are closed for today.
The Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada is also closed today due to snow.
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The Carson City School District announced that all schools will be closed today, Friday, due to heavy snow. Western Nevada College's Carson City campus, including the Child Development Center, will be closed today due to weather.
Fallon and Douglas campuses remain open.

Every Seat is the People's Seat! The Carson City Republican Central Committee invites all Carson City registered Republican voters to attend your County Precinct Meeting.

A downed power line reported around 10 a.m. Saturday morning in the area of U.S. Highway 50 East and Deer Run Road appears to be related to traffic back-up at the East College Parkway-Fairview Drive signal and a loss of electricity to more than 1,200 customers.

More snow is forecast for Western Nevada, including the greater Carson City area, with accumulations between two and four inches in the valleys and as much as six inches of localized accumulation, the National Weather Service in Reno reports.