Monthly Wine Walk Saturday in downtown Carson City

Carson City high school student Penelope Truell took home the top prize at the Rotary Club of Carson City’s annual speech contest. Truell is home schooled and attends one class at Carson High School.

Another atmospheric river storm system this week is aimed at Carson City and surrounding counties, further bringing the chances for low elevation rain and high elevation snow to an already water-logged region, according to the National Weather Service.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 13-19, 2023. Closures are expected at the following locations, weather permitting, due to road and utility work:

​The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents voted to appoint Dr. J. Kyle Dalpe as President of Western Nevada College at the board’s regular quarterly meeting today, March 10 in Las Vegas.

Get your free Lady Jill Mueller watercolor print.

Stop in at the NAA Galley and give us your email and choose your print from over a dozen available choices.

This evening, Governor Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency due to ongoing severe weather conditions in Churchill County, Douglas County, and Lyon County. Since yesterday, severe weather has brought heavy rainfall, flooding, and infrastructure damage to northern Nevada.

The 32nd annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Fest is here, serving up the best in the old west delicacy.

The Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry is the state's largest St. Patricks Day celebration, according to Virginia City Tourism.

Need a little Joy in your life? Catmandu’s cat of the week may be just what you are looking for.

Wally Murray, President and CEO of Greater Nevada Credit Union (GNCU), announced his retirement after 35 years at the credit union.

Do you want to know the historic town of Dayton’s best kept secrets? Mark your calendars to remember that the Dayton Museum opens for the season on Saturday, March 4 at the town’s 1865 schoolhouse at 135 Shady Lane to discover the culture, the tools used by the pioneers, their lifestyles and names of many who settled in Dayton 174 years ago!

As the Pineapple Express continues to flow over our region, more and more rain will continue to pour down. While normally in Northern Nevada we celebrate any and all rain, unfortunately due to the record breaking amounts of snow still currently on the ground, the mixture of the two means one thing: flooding.

Already reports of flooding have come in on North Carson Street, where traffic can be seen throwing up huge wages of water alongside the main thoroughfare.

Fresh off their third tour to Iceland with crazy adventures like playing at an Icelandic film star’s wedding to a show on a whale watching boat, San Francisco based band, Dirty Cello will present their exciting blend of blues, rock and Americana that has been described by Oakland Magazine as, “...funky, carnival, romantic, sexy, tangled, electric, fiercely rhythmic, and textured, and only occasionally classical” at Nashville Social Club in Carson City March 18.

Judy Mosqueda became an entrepreneur on March 2, 2021, and as she celebrates her second full year as a business owner, she says she hasn’t looked back once preferring to look to the future as she grows her beauty business while keeping her family in the forefront.

Many of us take for granted that we can turn on a faucet and clean water is immediately available for drinking, bathing and cleaning, but we often don’t think much about where it comes from and how it gets to us.

Thirty Pioneer Academy students had the opportunity to learn just that on a tour of the Truckee Meadows Water Authority Chalk Bluff water treatment facility last week.