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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It didn’t take long for Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford to hitch himself to a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump from taking a sledgehammer to the Department of Education. Along with 20 other attorneys general, Ford filed a motion, pleading for a preliminary injunction to slam the brakes on layoffs and the hasty rearrangement…

The Folly of Signal Well, friends, it appears we’ve reached that blissful stage of governance where state secrets get swapped like Sunday gossip–and national security is entrusted to the whims of a chat app. Yes, in this age of technological enlightenment, when a man can purchase an abacus with more encryption than our government employs,…

“Now wait a second,” my voice trembling. “How the hell can that be?” The woman across the desk from me leaned forward, “It just happens.” “Just happens,” I cried, my voice rising. “Nothing just happens.” Her lips curved into a smile, serene yet tinged with cold indifference. “Well, it appears you are having a mental…

When two teams meet, the home squad tends to call the shots. Churchill County upheld that unwritten rule by edging out Fernley 7-5 in a tightly contested showdown, adding another chapter to the Vaqueros’ recent woes against the Greenwave. Fernley has now come up short six straight times in this rivalry, and despite a determined…