A 9-year-old Texas girl reported missing last week has been found safe. Her biological mother has been arrested. Haskell, Texas Police Chief Ken Barnett tells KOLO 8, Urijah Livingston was found late August 6th in the Verdi area. According to the Washoe County jail, her mother, 39 year old Desiree Ward, is in custody, charged…… MORE
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The Governor is Getting Married This Weekend
Governor Brian Sandoval is getting married. He’ll tie the knot this Saturday with Laurelyn McCarthy of Las Vegas. The Governor’s Office released the following statement Tuesday afternoon: “Governor Sandoval is engaged to Ms. Lauralyn McCarthy of Las Vegas and will be married this Saturday. The happy couple requests privacy for themselves and their families during…… MORE
Funding And Upgrades Announced For AlertTahoe Network
Funding for upgrades and new cameras for the 26-camera AlertTahoe network, which tracked more than 100 fires for firefighters in 2017, was announced by the University of Nevada, Reno’s Nevada Seismological Lab Director Graham Kent in a presentation at the annual Lake Tahoe Summit. The camera network helps to detect and monitor wildfires in and…… MORE
Attorney’s General From 15 States Support Dozier Execution
Nevada is getting support for carrying out the execution of Scott Dozier, from Attorney’s General of 15 states. They filed briefs as “Friend of the Court,” to try to clear the way for the delayed execution Scott Dozier has requested, calling on the State Supreme Court to reject the arguments of drug companies, who don’t…… MORE
Musk Talking About Taking Tesla “Private”
Elon Musk says going private is the “best path forward” for Tesla. He stunned investors on Tuesday with a tweet saying he had already lined up funding, and he told employees that it would relieve the company of the “enormous pressure” of Wall Street’s expectations. “As a public company, we are subject to wild swings…… MORE
Wells Fargo: Small Business Optimism Up
Small business optimism is at an all-time high in the latest quarterly Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, conducted in July. The survey, had an overall Index score of 118, 12 percentage points higher than last quarter and the highest level in the survey’s 15-year history. The news comes as the economy grew 4.1 percent in…… MORE
Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto Stops in Reno
Washoe County school students returned to school Monday, and Superintendent Tracie Davis was on hand at North Valleys High School with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto touring classes, and welcoming the teens back to campus. Cortez Masto says we need to keep working to build a better education system here in Nevada, so we can One…… MORE
Nevada Dept of Veterans Services Looking For Families of Fallen Veterans
The Nevada Department of Veterans Services is looking for family of fallen Nevada veterans, so they can attend the dedication ceremony for the Battle Born: Memorial to Nevada’s Fallen Military coming up in November.… MORE
Smoke & Haze Expected to Remain in Northern Nevada Through The Week
Word like “hazardous” and “very unhealthy” aren’t commonly used to describe air quality in Northern Nevada, but the week started with some of worst air quality in years, thanks to fires burning in California. Monday afternoon the air in Douglas County and Carson City was “Unhealthy”, and that was an upgrade from “Very Unhealthy” earlier…… MORE
Plans For Interstate 11 May Include Fernley
Plans for the I-11 interstate may include Fernley. Looks like highway will include a long stretch of the highway 95 corridor. I-11 will eventualy run from Mexico to the Canadian border. The current phase will connect Las Vegas with Phoenix. At least two of the several route proposals would include Fernley. Nevada Department of Transportation…… MORE
