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“Ah 5-6-7-8!” Wild Horse Stage Company is thrilled to present one of the longest running musicals in Broadway history, “A Chorus Line.” With more than 6,000 Broadway performances during a 25-year run, “A Chorus Line” won nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Director and Best Choreographer, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy will give the keynote address at the 2022 Lake Tahoe Summit on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, hosted by U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada.

The Carson City chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby celebrates the news that Sen. Joe Manchin and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have reached an agreement on major climate and energy policies that will move forward in the 2022 budget reconciliation bill.

UPDATE: The event has been moved to the Brewery Arts Center due to rain.

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Carson City’s 19th annual Jazz & Beyond Music & Art Festival, presented by the Mile High Jazz Band Association, offers 17 days of free entertainment and more than 30 performances.

UPDATE 4:24PM: The National Weather Service has extend its Flood Advisory to 7:15 p.m. Flooding from excessive rainfall is expected. 1.8-2.2" of rainfall has fallen in the past hour. Minor flooding in low-lying/poor drainage areas and dangerous flows over low-water crossings are expected.
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A Flood Advisory is in effect west of Gardnerville Ranchos including NV/CA-88 until 3:45 p.m. Thursday. Doppler radar indicated heavy rain from thunderstorms, with radar estimated accumulations of 1.5 inches. As of 2:28 p.m. there are reports of road flooding between Foothill and...

Monday, August 8 host Brother Dan Palmer will be joined by Jimmy Rossi at Bank Saloon in Carson City. The two will chat about all of the projects and appearances in the singer/multi-instrumentalist’s near future, while they play a wide ranging set of music.

Businesses will host a pet food drive at their business location and volunteers host pet food drives in their neighborhood August 7-13 ,2022 as part of the national Give a Dog a Bone Week.

UPDATE 3:56PM: The Flash Flood Warning issued by the National Weather Service has been extended to 5:45 p.m.
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The National Weather Service in Reno issued a Flash Flood Warning Thursday afternoon for the Tamarack burn scar areas in Douglas County in Nevada and Alpine and Northern Mono County in California.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Thursday it has signed a cooperative agreement with Nevada under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program. Through LFPA, the Nevada Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reject Tahoe Hemp LLC’s proposed settlement in the amount of $400,000 after, they say, the city breached a contract with the company that had planned on growing agricultural hemp on Buzzy’s Ranch.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors agreed by a 4-1 vote Thursday to a subordination agreement for the affordable housing project Sierra Flats so that developers could acquire loan funding to complete the project.

The portion of the project being discussed was Phase 1, which developers hope to have a groundbreaking for near the end of the month once additional funding has been secured.

Does your child love comic books? Have they expressed an interest in not only reading them but creating them? If the answer is yes, there's a 3-day class happening August 8-10 at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City that is designed just for that.

A 22-yer-old man was arrested Wednesday for suspicion of a vehicle burglary that happened last month, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report.

Don’t miss out on tacos, live music, boba, and much more starting at 5:30 p.m. Xquisite Awareness Nights at the Diamond Strong Freedom Center in Carson City are kicking off Tuesday, August 9.

Xquisite is a local nonprofit that is dedicated to bringing freedom and empowerment to sexually exploited women and survivors of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and domestic violence to live healthy, flourishing lives.

Each Monday evening this summer, Partnership Carson City is bringing its popular yoga class outdoors for free. The Wellness Yoga classes take place at John Mankins Park, located at 3051 Oak Ridge Dr., Carson City starting at 5:30 p.m. The next class is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 8.

At precisely 5:12 am on Wednesday, April 18,1906, the world literally fell away from Eliza Eppinger’s feet. What is now referred to as the “Great Earthquake and Fire of San Francisco” would prove to be salvation for Eliza and her husband Jacob. However, Eliza’s story begins not in the city that the Comstock built, but as a woman from Pennsylvania, who through happenstance owned a hotel in Silver Mountain City, Alpine County, CA, often referred to as “Comstock South."

With thunderstorms and soaring summer temperatures across the region, it seems timely that this week's Levitt AMP Carson City outdoor summer concert headliner is called Bad Mother Nature. But don't let the name fool you. They're all about rock and roll, not fire and rain.

Douglas County is alerting residents ahead of the potential for flash flooding, especially in recent wildfire burn areas from the Tamarack Fire along US-395 and CA-89.

UPDATE 5PM: From the National Weather Service, a flash flood emergency is in effect for the Tamarack burn scar area including the Markleeville area. Roads in and out of Markleeville are closed due to slides.
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UPDATE: The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a Flash Flood Warning for Douglas County in Nevada, Alpine County and Northern Mono County in California until 5 p.m.

At 3:03 p.m. Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. The expected rainfall rate is 0.25 inches in 15 minutes.

The next Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting will be held on Thursday, Aug. 3 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Bob Crowell Boardroom of the Community Center, located at 851 E. William Street.