When the Wind Takes the Wheel Travelers hoping to take to the skies this fine Sunday were instead treated to an impromptu lesson in the whimsical tyranny of Mother Nature as the Reno-Tahoe International Airport found itself at the mercy of winds strong enough to make a bald man reconsider his hatlessness. By the afternoon,…

In an inspiring display of decision-making that would make a chicken crossing the road look like a master strategist, Dennis Solares-Garcia, aged 39 and allegedly a proud affiliate of the esteemed social club known as MS-13, found himself in the warm embrace of U.S. Marshals on Sunday. His crime? A robbery at the Tiendita Luzita…

Once again, the great and noble state of Nevada has saddled up for its biennial exercise in lawmaking, where the people’s representatives gather to argue, filibuster, and occasionally pass a bill or two—if they can stop bickering long enough to find a pen. At the top of this session’s wish list is education funding, which…

Gentle reader, it is a rare pleasure to witness a grand spectacle of government at work, particularly when said work involves running headlong into a wall of its construction. The latest demonstration of political acrobatics came courtesy of the Trump administration, which, in a moment of inspired miscalculation, attempted to freeze federal funding with all…

Gang Unimpressed The Reno Police Department has triumphantly announced that it has delivered a knockout punch to the KO gang—an outcome that, if one were to believe law enforcement, was about as decisive as a heavyweight champ flooring a glass-jawed opponent in the first round. For years, KO, a local Blood gang set, had been…

It has long been said that nothing travels faster than the speed of light, but in Lovelock, Nevada, it appears that taxpayer dollars can outpace even the most ambitious fiber-optic cable—especially when they’re being rerouted straight into a personal bank account. For over two years now, the fine people of Lovelock have been waiting on…

If you were hoping for a gentle dusting of snow and a few picturesque flurries to sip your cocoa by, I regret to inform you that the National Weather Service has other plans. A Winter Weather Advisory is now in effect, which is bureaucratic lingo for “hold onto your hats—literally.” Accompanying this frosty delight is…

Once heralded as the future of green energy, the Ivanpah solar power plant is circling the drain with all the grace of a buzzard over a desert carcass. Built on five square miles of prime Mojave real estate—and by “prime,” we mean land so inhospitable even the rattlesnakes carry canteens—the plant was supposed to usher…

Once, before men’s ambitions and their wagons rattled across every inch of this old Earth, there lay a little green patch amid a whole lot of brown nothing. That oasis, an emerald in a dustpan, became known to the weary pioneers as Humboldt Wells. And why not? It had springs clear as a preacher’s conscience,…

In the year 1860, Mark Twain and Dan DeQuille—two greenhorns in the journalism trade—set out to stake their claim in Mendocino County, Calif., with high hopes and, more importantly, a wagonload of all the fine details that make up a fledgling newspaper: type, tied-up articles, and an assortment of printing supplies. Fresh from the smoldering…