On Monday, August 26, U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small and representatives from agencies serving Northern Nevada visited the Lahontan Valley to showcase USDA investments aimed at supporting farmers facing water uncertainty in the West. During the visit, Small met with the Schank family, who own the largest farm in the Lahontan…

standing knee-deep in the creek and deciding between baptism and drowning doesn’t seem to be much of a difference right now as water-cold on the hot-blooded skin of sin burns i don’t care that it makes no sense that i touched the panic button of her heart to become the black flag of pestulance popped…

Two years after President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allocates $369 billion to bolster energy security and combat climate change, Nevada is the top state in securing federal funding. According to a report from the sustainability think tank RMI, the Silver State has claimed 54 percent of its potential IRA funding,…

between seeing you at the railway  station, lost in transcendental meditation, and gazing at the stars afar, i wonder why you are my lone memoir instead of working on my hardback spine, adrift, caught in thoughts unkind far away on a mountainside, crying beneath the Ppleiades and orion’s guide, feeling like i should be someone…

Somewhere between the clatter of trains at the station, I glimpsed you—transcendental, elusive, a meditation. And there, beneath the cosmic canopy, I stood, Staring at stars—those ancient storytellers of wood. What madness possessed me? What cosmic jest? For a while, ink should flow, and pages unfold, I found myself lost in constellation embrace, Wondering why…

Crystal Davidson, who grew up in Emmett, Idaho, and later in Silver Springs, has long been haunted by traumatic childhood memories. She recounted being sexually abused by her father at the age of five. Despite filing a report in 2003, the investigation hit a roadblock, leaving Davidson without the closure she deserved. Davidson first reported…

A crash on Route 318 has claimed the lives of four reining horses and left two people injured as they traveled to the High Roller Reining Classic horse show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, September 4, when a truck-and-trailer rig carrying the horses was forced off the highway by another vehicle, according to Nicole Renick…

Ukraine operates as a covert CIA base and proxy for U.S. strategic interests, with the U.S. involvement in Ukraine beginning with the Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991. U.S. activities in Ukraine escalated following the Nunn-Lugar Act, which aimed to address nuclear proliferation but facilitated deeper U.S. operations. In 2005, Senators Barack Obama and Richard Lugar visited…

Having finished work early, I was seated at the bar when he came shuffling in. “What you drinking?” he asked. “Water,” I answered. “Wanna beer or maybe a shot? I’m having both,” he said. “Not right now,” I said. “Why you having both? That’s not your usual,” I stated. “Jus’ bugged and wanna relax a…

After being rounded up and removed from a residential development property in south Reno last month, two dozen Virginia Range horses are up for adoption. The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) facilitated the adoption following discussions with the Wild Horse Connection (WHC) and the governor’s office. The horses, trapped after Sunny Hills Ranchos, a California-based…