Sierra Nevada Realtors released its January 2025 report on existing home sales in Carson City, along with Douglas, Lyon, Churchill, and Washoe counties, excluding Incline Village. The report details the median sales price and number of home sales across the region, sourced from the Northern Nevada Regional Multiple Listing Service. The median sales price for…

He swung himself into the saddle with the ease of a man born to the range, the leather creaking beneath him as if greeting an old friend. The sun hung low over the mesa, painting the sky in streaks of orange and red, but he paid it no mind. His gaze fixed on the horizon,…

CARSON CITY, Nev. – In a move as wild-eyed and desperate as a coked-up blackjack player doubling down on a busted hand, Governor Joe Lombardo has thrown his chips onto the table, demanding that Uncle Sam fork over chunks of Nevada’s vast federal wasteland to stave off a looming housing catastrophe. With nearly 87 percent…

SILVER SPRINGS, Nev.—(UPDATE) The deputies knocked. They called her name. They told her to come out, bring the child, make this easy, please. There was no answer. The man outside the door had told them what was happening. He said her name was Haylie Baggett, thirty-eight, locked in the bedroom with her three-year-old son. Domestic…

RENO, Nev.–The wind cut through Reno City Plaza like a dull knife, making the candle flames shiver. They stood there anyway—priests, imams, rabbis, monks—murmuring prayers over names that most of the city never knew. Seventy-seven dead. Not in some far-off war, not a catastrophe—just in the slow, grinding death of being poor in a town…

Daniel Tovar came to Stateline on a bus. He was thirty-one and from Pomona, Calif. He arrived on February 8, stepping off an Amtrak bus from Los Angeles—same state. On Saturday afternoon, he fell from the roof of Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. The valet saw him hit the ground. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office got the…

SPANISH SPRINGS, Nev.–The morning air was crisp, the sun barely clawing its way over the horizon when chaos erupted at an intersection in Spanish Springs. A blue truck, driven either by a fool or a man with a death wish, barreled through a red light at Calle De La Plata, smashing into a gray truck…

Bovines Blissfully Unawait of Their Role CHURCHILL COUNTY, Nev.—The sagebrush state has added another dubious distinction to its résumé, as a local farmhand has earned the honor of being Nevada’s first human case of bird flu. According to the Central Nevada Health District, the unlucky fellow had the misfortune of mingling with dairy cattle of…

The trouble started before the call came in. It always does. At 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 10, deputies from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a house on Spring Circle. Someone had called in a domestic violence report. Inside, two people had locked themselves in a bedroom. The door closed, and the world…

The morning sun rose crisp and bright, fooling a man into believing things might go his way. Folks around here congratulated themselves on surviving Friday the thirteenth without a hitch. Not me. I’ve learned the hard way that the real trouble starts the next day, and Saturday the fourteenth had a habit of knocking me…