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
Two Recovering After Ped Vs Vehicle Crash
Two people are in the hospital after they were hit by an alleged drunk driver in Sun Valley last night. The pedestrians were crossing the intersection of Sun Valley Blvd. and Gepford Parkway around 8:30 p.m. when a woman, driving a Dodge van, crashed into them. The victims were taken to the hospital in serious,…… MORE
Voter Registration Up In The Silver State
More than 1.5 million Nevadans are now registered to vote in the June primary elections, the most in state history. Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske says it’s the first time total registration in Nevada has topped the 1.5 million mark since the 2012 general election. The total at the end of March was 1,504,801. That’s…… MORE
NASA Partners With UNR For Drone Lab
NASA and UNR opened their drone virtual reality lab this week at the Reno Stead Airport, allowing students and NASA to partner in the exploration of new uses for UVA’s with the grand opening of their Nevada Unmanned Aircraft and NextGen Collaborative Environment Laboratory. Nevada is one of 6 states in the US that was…… MORE
