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This Saturday, April 30, Partnership Carson City will hold its annual Prescription Drug Roundup day. Bring your used and expired prescription drugs to drop off locations in Carson City for proper disposal to protect our community and water supply.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of April 25 through May 1, 2016: Work continues on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street. Motorists can expect the following traffic impacts this week:

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of April 18-24, 2016. Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street. Motorists can expect the following closures this week:

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of April 11-17, 2016. Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street. This week: Traffic on North Carson Street will remain one lane in each direction, from William to 5th Street.

The two likely nominees for the right to succeed Rep. Joe Heck are in a dead heat, according to a poll taken by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The survey, taken last week ,shows synagogue chief Jacky Rosen ahead of state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, 30 percent to 29 ...

Danny Tarkanian is dominating the GOP primary field in the race for Rep. Joe Heck's seat, an unsurprising result based on his overwhelming name recognition that has often buoyed him early in previous contests.
The survey, taken by Tarkanian campaign firm Chariot LLC, shows Tarkanian at 37 percen ...

March precipitation in the Sierra Nevada was impressive, with more than 16 inches in water content, nearly two and one-half times the month’s average. Though the amount is encouraging, the snowpack hasn’t kept pace, as demonstrated Wednesday at a California Department of Water Resources snow survey in the Sierra above Lake Tahoe.

We invite you to come celebrate Wild Horse Children’s Theater’s extraordinary productions from our last five seasons, Fall 2011-Spring 2016, at the WILD HORSE “PONY AWARDS” GALA on Saturday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. at The Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Carson City.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 21-27: Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street in the following locations:

Stand Tall, Healthy Communities Coalition of Silver Springs will host an anti-smoking event Wednesday that will educate seventh through 12th graders about the dangers of tobacco use and the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics.

William Dakota Gershel and Timothy Ibarra, both seniors at Carson High School, have participated in Career and Technical Education programs since attending CHS as freshman. Ibarra participated in two years of auto technician courses and two years in auto body courses. Gershel experimented in a variety of CTE courses including culinary, web design and welding.

We invite you to come celebrate Wild Horse Children’s Theater’s extraordinary productions from our last five seasons, Fall 2011-Spring 2016, at the WILD HORSE “PONY AWARDS” GALA on Saturday, April 23rd at 5:30 p.m. at The Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Carson City.

It’s Christmas in March for Tyler Smith, the winner of The Polar Express Ticket Giveaway for tickets to the opening weekend of The Polar Express Train Ride on the historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad this 2016 season.

For the past month V&T conducted surveys for customer feedback about their experience with the railroad. Each survey participant was entered in a giveaway to win four coach tickets to the highly anticipated opening weekend of holiday train, Nov. 17-20.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Feb. 22-28, 2016: There will be intermittent road closures on Washington Street between Roop and Division Streets, Monday through Friday, due to the construction of the East/West Water Transmission Project.

Lake Tahoe, Stateline, NV – The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency will conduct travel surveys with visitors and residents at several recreational and commercial locations throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin starting today, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016.

The annual Eagles and Agriculture event kicks off this week in the Carson Valley, a wildlife viewing exhibition that attracts hundreds of visitors to the area to see birds of prey feeding and nesting below the eastern slopes of the Carson Range.

But Carson City residents don't have to leave the Eagle Valley to catch glimpses of raptors. We've got them in our own backyards.

The Nevada Arts Council will participate in a national research study, known as Arts and Economic Prosperity 5, to measure the economic impact of nonprofit arts organizations and their audiences.

The study is being conducted by Americans for the Arts, the leading nonprofit arts organization for advancing the arts in the United States. The Council is one of nearly 300 study partners across the U.S. that will help with gathering detailed financial and event attendance data from nonprofit arts and cultural organizations during 2016.

A survey paid for by the solar industry indicates voters are angry about the Public Utilities Commission decision on rooftop solar and want a special session of the Legislature to reverse it.
The statewide poll, paid for by the umbrella group Bring Back Solar Alliance and conducted in late Janua ...

The second snow survey of 2016 is in the books, with the snowpack up to 125% of average. The January storms paid off, dropping 50 inches of snow to boost the snow depth to 104 inches at the Mt. Rose SNOTEL site.

1. The Mayor’s State of the City Address is scheduled for January 20th and should have been held at the Community Center in the evening (after work hours) and “free to the public” — charging citizens’ admission is simply wrong. Also, is the City's State of the State Address televised and available to the citizens to watch on the City’s access channel? Additionally, his fellow Board members should be given a copy of this community address in advance.

The New Year is getting off to a phenomenal start with snow falling at Lake Tahoe. It seems long ago since we’ve had snow around the lake, but as California and Nevada continue to grapple with four years of drought and water shortages, the snow couldn’t be falling at a better time.

School districts in Carson City, Lyon and Douglas counties were among 11 statewide to receive grant money that will allow them to hire additional social workers and mental health professionals, the Nevada Department of Education announced Wednesday.

The Nevada Department of Education has awarded block grants to the neediest Nevada schools that will add a minimum of 161 social workers and other mental health professionals for immediate support of students in 132 schools statewide.

All eleven school districts that applied for the grant received funding, as well as six charter schools.

In a survey by the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, "71 percent of care managers surveyed said financial abuse and/or exploitation of the elderly is a growing problem."

It seems about 1 in 5 folks age 65 or older have been victimized by financial fraud. The National Council on Aging said "over 90 percent of reported elder abuse is committed by the older person's own family members."

This season's snow in the Sierra and the forecast for a continued wet El Niño pattern shows promise but there's still a long way to go in order to make a dent in the four-year drought, said California water officials Wednesday at this winter's first manual snow survey at Echo Summit, which snowed a snow depth of 54.7 inches, 16.3 inches of water content and 136 percent of average.

A day after reports surfaced of a telephone scam hitting Carson City residents involving a "local" firefighter's association collecting money for charity, the Nevada Attorney General warned of yet another scam on Tuesday, this time where callers pose as representatives of the “state” attorney general or U.S. Department of Treasury.

An earthquake swarm continues to rattle the Reno area today with more than 30 events recorded since Tuesday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The largest quake was a 4.4 magnitude recorded at 10:46 p.m. It was felt as far south as Carson City and east into the Dayton area. No serious damage was reported.
The most recent quake had a 1.9 magnitude at 9:26 a.m. Wednesday morning.

A series of earthquakes rolled through the Reno area late Tuesday night with the strongest a 4.4 magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. As of 11:15 p.m. at least 6 quakes have shaken the area.

The Churchill County High School Advanced Placement Chemistry class presented its community survey of the Yucca Mountain Oversight Project to the Churchill County Commissioners at Thursday’ ...

Very low marks for the state's purchasing process, internal auditing and lobbying disclosure dragged Nevada far down in the national rankings for public integrity, coming in at 46th out of 50 in a recent survey for its overall governance and anti-corruption efforts.