Hyde Park Middle School is investigating after several students reported feeling ill after consuming candy that appeared to contain cannabis, according to a message sent to families Friday. Paramedics responded to the campus to provide medical aid, and families of affected students were notified. School officials said the incident appears to be isolated and that…

One person is dead, and two others were injured Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Scheckler Road, according to the Nevada State Police. The crash occurred near mile marker 2 around 2:22 p.m. when a pickup truck rolled over. One passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. A driver and another passenger sustained…

Lyon County sheriff’s deputies conducted saturation patrols Friday along the Ramsey-Weeks Cutoff in Silver Springs. The Traffic Enforcement Team made 43 traffic stops after reporting average speeds of 60 to 65 mph in a 45 mph zone. Deputies issued 21 speeding citations, along with citations for a suspended license, registration violation, and disobeying a traffic…

A boy has died after falling while climbing near the Eagle Falls Trailhead at Emerald Bay, officials said. El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies and emergency personnel responded around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and found Noah Ortega-Pourol Wiley, a sophomore at South Tahoe High School, about 400 yards from the trailhead with traumatic injuries. Lifesaving efforts failed,…

One person died, and two others were injured on Friday afternoon in a crash in Dayton, according to the Nevada State Police. The collision happened just after 2:15 p.m. at U.S. 50 and River Boat Road when an SUV failed to yield at a stop sign and was struck by a pickup truck traveling east…

I had been hiking the sandy and rocky hillocks east and south of town, out where the high desert keeps its own counsel and does not explain itself to visitors. The deer brush was in bloom, which is the desert’s way of reminding you that it can be generous without warning. I had gone far…

The weather report said winter was giving way to spring, nothing left but a little rain and some wind dragging its heels across the valley. That was good enough for me. I’d been cooped up for weeks, staring at walls, listening to the heater click on and off like it was counting down to something.…

I used to like camping alone. It’s the only place where time feels honest, measured by light on frost, or by how the evening wind works its way through a coat. Just me, the trees, and whatever the day decides to hand over. That October, I went deeper into the Redwoods than I usually dared,…

A federal judge in Nevada has ruled against conservation groups seeking to block the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron mine in Esmeralda County over concerns it would harm the endangered Tiehm’s buckwheat. U.S. District Judge Cristina Silva found the federal government properly approved the project and adequately considered impacts on the rare wildflower, which grows in a…

Central Lyon Fire crews responded early Thursday to a house fire in Dayton at a single-wide modular home on Grosh Avenue. Firefighters arrived just after 3:30 a.m. to find smoke and flames coming from the structure. All occupants had evacuated before crews arrived. One person and one pet received treatment for smoke inhalation. The cause…