New art classes offered for adults, children at Carson City's Brewery Arts Center

Sunny skies are ahead for Carson City and much of western Nevada for Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. With events taking shape in time for Friday's Passport to Downtown and Saturday's Nevada Day parade, there's lots of activity brewing this Tuesday including a morning walk and evening hike hosted by Muscle Powered, the annual Carson Tahoe Health Spooktacularl, fundraisers, art showings and more.

Following are all of the entries for the 2018 Nevada Day Parade, to take place on Saturday, Oct. 27 starting at 10 a.m. The parade starts at North Carson and William streets, and ends at South Carson and Stewart streets. There are 215 entries in this year's parade.

Entries line up on the following streets by division before the start of the parade:

Division 1 - Bath St

Division 2 - Adaline St

Division 3 - E Long St

Division 4 - W Long St

Division 5 - E Adams St

Division 7 - E Park St

Division 9 - Fleischmann way

Division 10 - E John St

Diana Alonso, with Partnership Carson City, collects unused and expired medications during a Drug Round Up in front of Smith's in Carson City, Nev., on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. More than 150 pounds of medications and 200 pounds of syringes were collected in the biannual event.

CARSON CITY — Lights On Afterschool is the only nationwide event celebrating afterschool programs and their important role in the lives of children, families and communities. The effort has become a hallmark of the afterschool movement by drawing attention to the many ways after school programs support students by offering them opportunities to learn new things — such as science, community service, robotics, Tae Kwon Do and poetry — and discover new skills.

The greatest day of the year is close at hand: Nevada Day. The day in which the capitol of Nevada, Carson City, practically shuts down to celebrate our statehood, which took place on October 31, 1864.

While the majority of the United States don’t celebrate their Statehood, those that do participate don’t have quite the same gusto for the celebration that Carson City does.

What does it mean to be a Nevadan? What does it mean to be Battle Born?

Mono County Sheriff's Office investigators continue to search for a missing 16-year-old girl with family ties in Yerington who was last seen early Saturday, Oct. 13 near her home in the Bishop, Calif area.

CARSON CITY — The public is invited to the unveiling of Governor Sandoval’s official portrait Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 at 3 p.m. in the Old Assembly Chambers of the Capitol Building.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife is seeking the public’s assistance in helping to solve an elk poaching case that occurred earlier this month in Eastern Nevada.

During the month of October, the League of Women Voters of Northern Nevada held four voters forums, and on Tuesday October 16, in the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall in Carson City, candidates for state and federal offices took the stage to speak and answer audience questions. Roughly 200 people were in attendance. The moderator was Deirdre Peterson.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies were called late Sunday afternoon to a motorcycle accident in the hills above Sierra Vista Lane.

Carson City Fire Department was called Sunday afternoon to the 1600 block of Valley View Drive in South Carson City for a small brush fire.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies were called early Sunday afternoon to the intersection of College Parkway and Airport Road for a two vehicle crash.

A 27 year-old Lamonta, Calif., man was arrested early Saturday morning at 12:27 a.m. in the 2800 block of South Carson Street on misdemeanor first-offense driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol, a Carson City Sheriff's deputy reported.

Kelly Gustafson, a Carson High School Health Science teacher and HOSA adviser in the Career and Technical Education Department at CHS, provides this week's news regarding a health career competition. She reports the following: