Flash flood watch continues for Tamarack fire area, Carson City, Carson Valley and western Nevada

UPDATE 445PM: A male driver of a white van with matching plates was detained Tuesday afternoon after a citizen reported the van at the Quick Stop at 3006 North Roop Street. The man was being questioned and the van was being towed.
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Carson City Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating three separate suspicious incidents during the past few days involving confrontations between pedestrian females and possible solicitations.

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: The Carson City Sheriff’s Office announced that Bryce Kent and the outstanding Toyota Camry have been located. The juvenile and the vehicle were released back to his parents by Washoe County deputies.
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The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Investigation Division is asking the public for help locating a 17-year-old runaway juvenile who is believed to be in possession of a stolen car.

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: Based on tips from the public, the 13-year-old runaway juvenile was located late Tuesday evening in Carson City, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office detective.
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The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Investigation Division is asking the public’s assistance in locating a runaway juvenile female. Trinity Cole age 13, was last seen on June 8 in Carson City. Trinity is believed to still be in Carson City.

Carson City Fire Department will be conducting a live fire training exercise at a vacant structure located on the Carson City Public Works Corporate Yard, June 17 and June 18, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days.

A 57-year-old Carson City man was arrested Monday morning in the area of North Roop and Hot Springs Road for battery, a Carson City sheriff's deputy said.

UPDATE: The crash that happened Tuesday morning on Highway 50 near Bunny Ranch Road in Mound House involved a school bus and a Honda Element. None of the three children on the school bus, nor the driver were injured. The driver of the Honda was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, according to NHP Trooper Hannah DeGoey. The cause is under investigation.
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According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, a vehicle crash occurred just before 7 a.m. in the area of Highway 50 and Bunny Ranch Road in Mound House, backing up traffic for miles.

Taylor Clarke and Jon Duplaniter held down the hill for the Triple-A Reno Aces, now they’re providing some bite toward the Arizona Diamondbacks’ rotation.

Combine a night of family friendly activities, refreshments and a great cause with a chance to learn more about Western Nevada College, and what do you have? Community Night and Journey of Hope, of course.

The Carson City Library hosted its kick-off party Saturday to launch its Summer Learning Challenge with a space-oriented theme, designed to encourage people of all ages to read over the summer.

Ask fire managers about fighting runaway wildland fires, and it might start to sound like they are talking about coordinating a coalition-led war. There are decisions about where to send their assets, and whose assets to send. There are decisions about when, where and what to defend with a limited number of fire crews. And there are decisions about jurisdictional responsibility.

When families come to the Ron Wood Family Resource Center in Carson City, they are typically in desperate conditions.

“We see 80 percent of our clients in the last couple of weeks of the month,” explained Joyce Buckingham, executive director. “They have reached the end of their SNAP benefits or their social security or other benefits.”

Hundreds of American Indian dancers, drummers, artists, craftsmen and cultural enthusiasts will converge on Carson City the weekend of June 14-16 for the annual Stewart Indian School Father’s Day Powwow.

University of Nevada Las Vegas is working with the Nevada Department of Education to learn more about what parents with young children need in Carson City!

A two-month investigation by the Carson City Sheriff's Office Special Enforcement Team led to the arrest Saturday of a 61-year-old man on felony drug charges including trafficking, possession and sales of methamphetamine and fentanyl.