A public memorial for the late state Senator Debbie Smith will be this Sunday at Sparks High School beginning at noon. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Senator Smith’s name to the Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation, which supports brain tumor research. Smith died Sunday, a year after she was diagnosed with a…… MORE
Reno Aces Hiring For The New Season
The Reno Aces will be hosting a job fair from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. this Saturday at Aces Ballpark. Multiple part-time positions for the 2016 season are open for hire. The Aces open the 2016 season Thursday, April 7th at 6:35 p.m. against the El Paso Chihuahuas at Aces Ballpark.… MORE
Vandalism at Sarah Winnemucca Elementary
Washoe School District police are investigating a case of vandalism over the weekend at Sarah Winnemucca Elementary School in Northwest Reno. Someone broke into the school; it’s not clear yet whether anything was taken. Police are not releasing specifics about the vandalism, but photos on Facebook indicate paint may have been splashed in various areas.… MORE
Deputies Searching For Liquor Crook
One man is custody and deputies are searching for another suspect who walked out of a Carson City liquor store with a $2,600 bottle of alcohol last night. It started with a call from an off-duty police officer who observed a car heading at a high rate of speed north on I-580 to Reno. The…… MORE
Fewer Democrats Came Out For The Caucus
Officials say about 84,000 Nevada Democrats participated in Saturday’s caucuses, which is nearly 30 percent fewer than in 2008. About 14,000 of those voters registered the day of. But in 2008, there were 118,000 Democratic voters who caucused, with about 30,000 registering the same day. State party officials also said 65 percent of Saturday’s participants…… MORE
Cruz, Trump, Rubio in Northern Nevada
The Democratic caucuses in Nevada are finished, and the Republican caucuses are set for tomorrow evening. G-O-P candidates have been busy trying to get every vote they possibly can. One of those leading the polls in the Republican battle across the country is Senator Ted Cruz. He has a detailed plan to replace the federal…… MORE
Reno Man Trying to Get Clinton Off The Ballot
A retired Reno lawyer is trying to knock Hillary Clinton off the ballot. Douglas Wallace says he’s no anti Hillary crank or feminist hater, his issue is Article 2 of the Constitution, which he says makes 19 references to the President, all of them indicating a male gender. He suggests the language of the Constitution…… MORE
NV Has One of The Highest Foreclosure Rates
Nevada’s housing market started the year the way it started the last one, with one of the highest foreclosure rates. One in every 603 homes statewide got a foreclosure-related filing in January, up 30 percent from December and about 1.5 percent from January 2015, according to RealtyTrac. Nevada, which last year posted the fourth-highest foreclosure…… MORE
Nevada Man in Trouble Over Hillary Prank
Any Rumors of Hillary Clinton’s death are not only false, they might be criminal…. at least in Las Vegas, where a man tried to place an obituary notice for Mrs. Clinton in the local newspaper, listing saturday — Democratic Caucus day — as the date of her death. Las Vegas Review-Journal employees asked the man…… MORE
Ben Carson Campaigns in Reno
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson made a campaign stop Sunday in Reno ahead of tomorrow’s GOP caucus. At a town hall meeting at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, he says he’s not ready to quit. Carson told the crowd, he can help America win the war against ISIS. Carson will be speaking at Piper’s Opera…… MORE
