The November ballot is starting to take shape, with the announcement of the official names of two key ballot measures. The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office says the initiative to require background checks on gun sales and transfers will be Question 1. The effort to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Nevada will be called…… MORE
Stranded Four Wheelers Rescued
Carson City Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue and the Care Flight team saved 11 people Monday morning, who had gone four wheeling and got stuck in the mud in a remote area of El Dorado Canyon in the Pine Nuts Mountains, southeast of Carson City on Sunday. The search team got the call late Sunday…… MORE
Accused Rapist Arrested
Reno police have made an arrest in the case of a female victim who was picked-up by a male suspect April 3rd in the downtown area, who began to drive the woman into a secluded area. She got scared and tried to get away, but was choked from behind and awoke to the male pointing a…… MORE
First Confirmed Washoe Zika Case, Woman Recovers
A woman with recent travel history to El Salvador, is the first confirmed Zika case in Washoe County. Her symptoms resolved within a week. The woman is one of twelve individuals in Washoe County who have been tested in recent weeks. No other positive results have been received to date.… MORE
Cliven Bundy is an Outlier in the Land Rights Struggle
by Samantha Stone…
Certain key players in Nevada’s land rights movement were deliberately absent from Bunkerville. They’re ardent activists, who tipped their hats to Bundy’s backbone, but disavowed his tactics, and disagreed with his legal conclusions.… MORE
Drone Company Moving Some Operations To Reno
“Smart Planes,” a Swedish-based drone company, plans to move some of its operations to Reno, according to Warren Rapp, the business director for the University of Nevada “Automomous Systems Innovation Center. He says they plan to employ as many as 20 people within a year. Smart Planes develops high quality and state of the art…… MORE
What Is Annoying The State Treasurer?
State Treasurer Dan Schwartz is expressing annoyance at the filings of new briefs by opponents of the ESA program. The Southern Poverty Law Center, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, and the NAACP filed “Amicus briefs” in the case, and the court extended the “expedited” deadline to April 20th. Schwartz says the parents who want ESA are…… MORE
Sheldon Adelson’s Corp. Agrees To Settlement
Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. will pay a $9 million civil penalty to settle charges that it broke the law, by neglecting to appropriately authorize or document millions of dollars it paid to an overseas consultant. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the penalty following a five-year investigation into whether the Sands violated the…… MORE
Seven Year Sentence For Sparks Shooter
Its seven years in prison for a man who fired the shot that critically wounded a 13 year old Sparks boy. Jimmy Lopez -Valadez will serve time for firing into a structure from his car. The boy was in his room playing video games last September 20th when the round came through a window and…… MORE
Medical Episode Blamed For Oddie Crash
Reno Police say it’s likely an accident on Oddie Blvd. east of Sutro Thursday evening was the result of a medical episode that claimed the life of the vehicle’s driver. Officers were called to the location shortly before 5:00 and found a 70 year old man unconscious in the vehicle. The woman passenger in the…… MORE
