A bicyclist is in critical condition following a hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning in Sparks. The crash occurred around 3 a.m. on eastbound Prater Way just past the Interstate 80 junction. Sparks Police responded to the scene and found the bicyclist injured, but the vehicle involved had already fled the area. Paramedics stabilized the victim…

The Reno Fire Department responded to a water rescue in the Truckee River Saturday afternoon. At 3:56 p.m., the department’s Water Entry Team went to the river, near Kuenzli Street. Reno Police assisted in the response. Crews pulled the woman from the water just after 4 p.m., where she received medical attention at the scene…

Several crashes across the Reno-Sparks area over the weekend put drivers in the hospital and temporarily closed portions of major roadways, according to local authorities. Nevada State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash on southbound Interstate 580 near Glendale Avenue just after 12:30 p.m. Friday. Officials said one driver had to go to the hospital…

Two people are in jail in separate incidents in Washoe County on firearm and drug-related charges, according to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office. In the first case, deputies responded on Thursday night to a Reno neighborhood near Timothy Drive and Holcomb Ranch Lane after receiving reports of a suspicious person seen near the side of…

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office has released additional information regarding the deaths of two women found inside a residence on February 28. Authorities identified the women as Andrea De Stories, 59, and her mother, Kitty Brown, 99. According to investigators, Brown had significant medical issues and was being cared for by her daughter at the…

Winter had its own way of settling scores in the Nevada high country. It carved the land clean, pared it down to rock and wind and silence, and a man either matched it or he didn’t. Out here, promises weren’t things you spoke; they were things you carried. And a debt, once taken on, rode…

Morning comes slowly in the Nevada high country. It doesn’t burst over the horizon the way folks who’ve never been there like to claim. Instead, it seeps into the world, thin, colorless, and wary, like a traveler unsure of the country he’s riding into. That was the kind of dawn Lucas Hale woke to, feeling…

Daylight Saving Time has returned, like a relative who borrows money and remembers the door code. The ceremony begins at two o’clock Sunday morning—an hour when only burglars, owls, and government planners are awake and thinking clearly. At that moment, we are to advance every clock in the house by one hour. It is said…

I paid a visit to the doctor the other day, which is always a hazardous undertaking for a man who has previously considered himself reasonably alive. The doctor studied his instruments, looked me over with the solemn interest of a tax assessor, and finally announced that I am, in his professional judgment, “a walking stroke.”…

Winter in the high mountains didn’t drift in like morning fog. It came down hard, sudden as a rifle shot, and a man either respected it or perished under its hand. Lucas Hale understood that well enough. He and Andy Mercer lay buried to the shoulders in a drift they had packed over themselves for…