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Retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold is sailing into the choppy waters of Nevada politics.The former skipper of the USS Cole announced Thursday that he will seek the GOP nomination for Nevada's 2nd Cong...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Congresswoman Shelley Berkley will run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by embattled Nevada Republican John Ensign, who is retiring.Berkley's campaign announced in a statement ...

The investigation into the deaths of two Carson City teens who died while scuba diving in Monterey last weekend has been hindered by their missing gear. Monterey County Sheriff's Detective Kevin Ga...

Members of Girl Scout Troop 445 of Dayton stuff 4,000 Easter eggs with candy on Monday night as a community service project for the annual Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt. The public is invited to help ...

The Misfits Theater Group's latest homage to melodrama, "The Como Indian Scare of 1863 or Food Trumps Wood in the Card-game of Life" plays 7 p.m. April 15-16, 22-23, Odeon Hall, 65 Pike Street, Day...

The Carson Valley Quilt Guild is currently involved in a relief program headed up by Quilters' Newsletter, a magazine group located in Golden, Colo. They have contacted all quilt guilds/ subscriber...

RENO (AP) - A napping air traffic controller who forced a medical flight to land unaided in Nevada brought swift reaction from the Federal Aviation Administration, which on Wednesday added a second...

Citizen activists on Wednesday urged the Government Affairs Committee not to adopt amendments they say would weaken a bill designed to expand public comment at governmental meetings.Assembly Bil...

Sheila Taormina will be at the Carson City Aquatic Facility from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday teaching a swim clinic. Taormina has competed in four Olympics, winning gold in swimming, and was ...

The community is invited to join Earth Day cleanup efforts when Carson City's Recreation Department and Chamber of Commerce members roll up their sleeves for a little spring cleaning.Volunteers ...

Inside her business, located in a tiny addition on the side of her Washoe Valley home, Kerrie Laack is trying to spruce up the dinner menus for her dozens of customers - one basket at a time. La...

Assembly Speaker John Oceguera, himself a firefighter, Wednesday proposed a bill that would make measured reductions to the public worker retirement benefits in trade for a commitment not to mak...

Dick Campagni, owner of Carson City Toyota and Scion and Capital Ford, is donating a car to help raise money for patient care at the Carson Tahoe Cancer Center. The car will be raffled off on Se...

--Carson City Sheriff's log April 14April, 13 2011 11:45 pm MST...

CARSON CITY – The Nevada Legislature finally took up the issue of reforms to the state’s public employee retirement system today, but the proposed changes from Democratic Assembly Speaker John Oceguera are modest.

CARSON CITY – The days are lengthening, but lawmakers are still finding good reason to be inside the Legislature from dawn till dusk.
This Friday is a deadline for bills to pass out of committee, leaving many legislators scurrying from committee room to committee room to keep their bills alive.

RENO (AP) - The chief executive of an airport in northern Nevada says a medical flight with at least three people aboard was forced to land without help from air traffic control after the lone c...

An interesting story in the Virginia City News, which reports that a deal was struck between Comstock Mining Inc., and the owners of the historic Gold Hill Hotel. Click here to read the story.

A Carson City man faces seven felony counts of commercial burglary and seven counts of uttering a forged instrument after being arrested for allegedly attempting to cash counterfeit checks at a casino on the account of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California.

For one hundred years, higher education has been a primary gateway to a better life for Americans. People with college degrees make more money, divorce less, live longer and secure a better future ...

School employees called on the Carson City School Board during its meeting Monday to use money from the district's ending fund to balance the budget rather than cut jobs and salaries as outlined in...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Federal officials say the wettest year in more than a decade will let Colorado River water managers send more water to drought-ravaged Lake Mead this year. The U.S. Bureau of Recla...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif (AP) - A Nevada man's arrest in a string of cold-case deaths in California has authorities investigating whether he's connected to other unsolved killings across the country, i...

A Nevada legislative panel amended and approved a bill Tuesday that would pave the way for the Silver State to set the standard for Internet gambling.The amended version of AB258 directs the Nev...

Nevada is weighing the cost of the death penalty in a new way.Proponents of a bill that would calculate the costs of condemning an inmate told a legislative panel on Tuesday that the state's fis...

A funeral will be held Saturday for one of the Carson City teenagers who died in a diving accident last weekend in Monterey, Calif.The service for Stephen James Anderson, 16, will be 10 a.m. at ...

Gas prices continue to go up in Nevada as the peak summer travel season approaches, according to the latest report from AAA Nevada.The average price in Nevada for regular, unleaded gasoline is $3.8...

The sheep have arrived in Carson City for their annual spring job - scouring the hillsides on the west side of town to reduce highly flammable cheat grass. Supported by Carson City's Open Space ...

The hearing into Assemblywom-an Peggy Pierce's proposed corporate income tax revealed very little common ground between those for and those against.Assembly Bill 336 would impose a 4.5 percent c...

Gov. Brian Sandoval Tuesday issued an executive order creating a Sunset Task Force to review whether some advisory bodies in the executive branch should be eliminated.He said some of those group...