Governor Lombardo gives update on cyberattack response
During an updated press conference, Governor Lombardo announced that while some agencies are back online, others are still being restored.
Best of Northern Nevada 2025: Staff Picks
The chicken enchiladas at the DC Café, inside the Tamarack Casino. The prices at restaurants, you’ve surely noticed, have skyrocketed as of late. Inflation, tariffs and other debacles (like the bird flu) have caused food prices to spike, and restaurants have had to pass those price increases on to customers.
Forest Service takes next step in Roadless Rule rollback, triggering public comment period
LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – With a notice published Friday, Aug. 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has initiated the next step in a process to rollback its 2001 Roadless Rule, which impacts National Forest Service lands, including certain areas in Truckee-Tahoe. The publication is a notice of intent to...
Carson City Sheriff’s Office asks for help finding 15-year-old girl
CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) - The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help finding a 15-year-old Hispanic girl who ran away from home, according to a Carson City Sheriff’s Office news release on Thursday, Aug. 28. Gladys Mejia Cervantes was last seen on Wednesday,...
Man sentenced for stabbing victim in face, neck, and arms and leaving him to...
SPARKS, Nev. (TCN) -- A 56-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing another man and leaving him to die in a park. The Washoe County District Attorney's Office announced Aug. 28 that a judge sentenced David Abara to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of Randal...
Rodent droppings, too-warm sushi among violations in early August
Two food service locations were temporarily closed and another five were written up for health code violations in the first week of August, with infractions including too-warm sushi, employees touching clean plates after dirty ones, and rodent droppings in food storage areas. Northern Nevada Public Health issues four...
Delivery driver arrested in Spanish Springs for alleged peering incident
WASHOE COUNTY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A delivery driver was arrested in Spanish Springs and charged with peering through a window with a camera. Washoe County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a residence on Garden Pond Way in Spanish Springs regarding a reported peering incident around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 27.
Severe storms bring flash flooding, hail, and mudslides across Western Nevada and Eastern California
A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect through 10 p.m. Wednesday for much of western Nevada and parts of northeast California, as slow-moving thunderstorms bring widespread heavy rain, hail, lightning, and flash flooding. The National Weather Service in Reno has issued the watch for the Greater Reno–Carson City–Minden...
Old Reno hotel sees new life as arcade restaurant with 40-foot pinball bartop
Nearly eight decades since it opened, the site of an old Reno hotel is reinventing itself once more, this time as an arcade restaurant with a unique bartop that mixes pisco with pinball. The former Santa Fe hotel in downtown Reno reopened this summer as the new location for Playfield Sports and Games. The business,...
After a harrowing 20-foot fall last year, she’s better and back for her 9th...
Rachael Gingery is back at Burning Man, even after a devastating fall in 2024 had her leaving the playa by ambulance. The San Francisco resident fell 20 feet off a ship art piece, "Naga & the Captainess.” “I remember laying on the ground, feeling shocks of pain course through my body and being unable to move as I was...
