A fire that broke out inside a commercial trash compactor was quickly extinguished Friday in Sparks, preventing damage to nearby structures. The Sparks Fire Department responded to South Rock Boulevard after reports of a fire on the property. Upon arrival, crews found a trash compactor burning near a building. Forklift operators assisted firefighters at the…

No one was injured after a driver crashed a truck into a garden planter box in the front yard of a Reno home Saturday evening. The incident occurred just before 7 p.m. on Allen Street, between Shamrock Lane and Harbin Lane, according to the Reno Fire Department. The impact caused minor property damage, but the…

A tense carjacking investigation in Sparks ended Saturday night after police negotiated the surrender of a suspect who had barricaded himself inside a stolen vehicle. According to Sparks Police, officers responded to the 1800 block of Sullivan Lane just before 8 p.m. on Jan. 31 following a report of a stolen vehicle taken by force.…

The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing Lovelock man. Authorities say 32-year-old Ralph Raymond Rivas Jr. disappeared on Tuesday, Dec. 23, in Lovelock. Deputies have issued a public notice as the search continues and are urging anyone with information to come forward. Rivas is described as 5…

Jack Merriman had camped near Lone Pine more times than he could count, enough to think of the Alabama Hills as his unofficial backyard. There was something about that stretch of the eastern Sierra Nevada that always pulled him back: the wide-open desert below, the granite towers reaching for the sky, and the kind of…

Earl wasn’t a man who rushed things. In fact, his wife, Betty, liked to say he moved through life like a turtle on vacation. Earl figured that was fine, since he’d never seen a turtle die from stress. One fine Saturday morning, he decided it was time to mow the yard, a task he’d been…

Now, I’ll admit right off the bat, I haven’t the foggiest notion why I did what I did. There I was, perched on my porch like a wise old owl with my morning coffee, minding my own business and feeling respectable. And then I heard it, our neighbor’s cat, a furball with more attitude than…

Sampson never liked the word hitman. Too clinical, too clean. It sounded like a profession, something you could list on a tax form. He preferred killer, as it had honesty and weight. The kind of word that didn’t need an explanation. He’d been at it twelve years, long enough to know the texture of dying,…

Deputies arrested a 33-year-old man on Tuesday after he entered a phone store carrying a concealed machete in his pants. According to the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, a deputy was dispatched at 12:20 p.m. to a store on Market Street after employees reported a man acting erratically with a large knife in his pants. When…

Commentary The idea behind Trump Accounts, government-seeded investment accounts for children, sounds appealing on the surface. Helping kids build wealth early is a goal most people can agree on. However, the structure of these accounts creates significant opportunities for misuse, undermining their stated purpose. One major issue is that Trump Accounts can easily become a…