Sun Remains Unimpressed In a bold stroke of legislative brilliance, Nevada lawmakers have set their sights on one of humanity’s most enduring adversaries–the movement of time itself. A bill to end the twice-yearly ritual of jostling clocks forward and back—an exercise responsible for lost sleep, general confusion, and an annual spike in coffee sales—has emerged…

Now, friends, if you ever find yourself wanting to take a pleasant jaunt to the fair waters of Lake Tahoe, where the air is as crisp as an autumn apple and the scenery finer than any painting, here is a word of advice–bring a rowboat, a sturdy pair of boots, and a disposition prepared for…

The Virginia City Muckers are proving last season’s struggles are as dead and buried as an old prospector’s claim. On Tuesday, they made short work of the Sierra Sage Academy/Right of Passage Rams, galloping off with a commanding 19-4 victory. It was no lucky break—when a team wins five games by more than seven runs,…

A seven-year-old girl who died after being struck by a falling boulder at Diamond Peak Ski Resort on Saturday is Adelyn Grimes of Reno, the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed. Grimes was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining blunt force injuries to the neck and chest. Authorities are investigating the circumstances, including…

An Amber Alert issued in Northern Nevada on Monday was canceled in the afternoon after authorities safely located 10-month-old Lyric Smithen and his mother, Chelsea Daniels. The alert came after Daniels, 32, abducted her son in Fallon following a court order that removed the child from her care. According to the Churchill County Sheriff’s Office,…

Nervous—very dreadfully nervous I had been and remain. The obsession had sharpened my senses—not dulled them—not destroyed them. Above all was the sense of hearing. I heard all things in the notifications, the pings, the buzzes of the digital ether, the silent hum of a phone on “Do Not Disturb”—a lie, a mockery! It is…

The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office, in a stroke of efficiency and brevity, has announced that both Nancy Griffiths and Jayson Daniel are safe. Where they were, what they were doing, and why they were doing it remain questions of profound mystery, as the authorities have chosen to keep such tantalizing details to themselves. Nevertheless, the…

Authorities have issued an Amber Alert after a 10-month-old child was kidnapped in the Fallon area early this morning. The infant was taken at approximately 8 a.m. by the child’s mother, Chelsea Daniels, in what authorities are describing as a non-custodial kidnapping. Daniels, believed to be armed, fled the scene in a black 2006 Ford…

Skinning a Cat Without It Yowling In the grand tradition of statesmen who solemnly assure the public that a fleecing is for their good, Washoe County Commission Chair Alexis Hill recently declared it’s time to have a “conversation” about raising taxes. Conversations is a polite term for reaching deeper into the taxpayer’s pocket with the…

“Now, ain’t that rich?” The Peanut Gallery roared as the Communist Party USA took to denouncing the firebombing of a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, all while federal prosecutors point at Paul Kim, a man who, by their telling, harbored “far-left extremist ideologies.” Las Vegas police had themselves a busy spell, nabbing Kim, 36,…