• Churchill County Sheriff's Office Looking for Missing Man and Woman

    The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Jayson Daniel for a welfare check at the request of his family. Daniel was last known to be in the Reno/Sparks area near the Peppermill Casino. Authorities report that Daniel may be driving a charcoal gray 2021 Ford Ranger with Nevada license plate…

  • Beatty Folks Grateful Their Burro Woes Ain’t Camel-Sized

    The fine people of Beatty sighed in relief when Beatty Disposal, under the grand and illustrious empire of C and S Waste Solutions, gifted them with garbage dumpsters. It put a swift and merciful end to a longstanding skirmish with the town’s real governing body—the free-range burros. Before these modern marvels of refuse containment, folks…

  • The Great Nevada Gun Grab

    A Lawmaker’s Guide to Infringement The Nevada Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, has decided once more to whittle away at that little phrase “shall not be infringed,” as though it were a mere suggestion rather than the unambiguous command of the Constitution. First up on the chopping block is Assembly Bill 105, a noble effort…

  • Vegas' Tesla Torcher Tossed in Hoosegow

    It appears the good people of Las Vegas have finally caught themselves a genuine villain, a man of mischief and malice, who took it upon himself to set fire to automobiles in the dead of night as if he were some outlaw poet raging against the modern world. Paul Hyon Kim, aged 36, was hauled…

  • Virginia City Residents Advised to Boil Water, Or

    Just Drink Whiskey Instead A boil water notice was issued for the fine and upstanding–if occasionally parched, citizens of South Q Street in Virginia City because some contrary-minded water pipes decided to spring a leak. The unexpected bit of aquatic rebellion has left residents in the unenviable position of choosing between boiling their drinking water…

  • Amodei’s Grand Land Swap Bill

    A Fine Mess of Progress and Preservation Congressman Mark Amodei has once again set his sights on rearranging Northern Nevada’s landscape by reintroducing the Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, a scheme that aims to shuffle federal lands about like a deck of well-worn playing cards. If it finds favor in the halls of…

  • Black Heart of the Desert

    Ellie Grayson had always felt the pull of the wild places, the kind of deep, bone-level yearning that made her ache for the open sky and the smell of pine over the pavement. She’d grown up with dirt under her nails, chasing fireflies in the Ozarks, and even now, at thirty-two, she couldn’t shake that…

  • The Nevada Bug Debate

    Minding the Monarchs It has come to pass that in the great and sovereign state of Nevada, where men wager fortunes on the roll of a dice and the pull of a lever, the common butterfly is left to its own devices, unprotected by the law and unburdened by the bureaucracy that so diligently tends…

  • A Couple of Scoundrels Get Their Due

    The world is brimming with miscreants, and every so often, one of them stumbles into the arms of justice as neatly as a calf into a branding pen. Such was the fate of Mauricio Urbano De La Luz, a 50-year-old fellow whose name shall now be associated with disgrace rather than distinction. On the evening…

  • Legislators Aim to Fix the Unbroke

    To Keep Themselves Busy The Nevada Legislature, never one to let a smoothly running thing alone, is now setting its sights on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline with a bill that promises to improve it—by burying it under a fresh heap of bureaucracy. Hatched by Assemblywoman Rebecca Edgeworth, Assembly Bill 380 sets out to…