The shots came early, before dawn. Then a call for help. Police at the VA hospital needed backup. Reno officers answered, securing the scene, but the case was no longer theirs. The FBI took over. It happened at 2:30 the morning of February 12, near the ER entrance, where Locust and Burns meet. No one…

A Fight Over History The law says one thing. The calendar says another. If you look it up, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is October 13. That also happens to be Columbus Day. But in Nevada, the law marks Indigenous Peoples’ Day as August 9. Democratic Assemblywoman Shea Backus wants to change that with Assembly Bill 144.…

Washoe County has a new Registrar of Voters. His name is Andrew McDonald. He is the fourth or maybe the fifth. No one is sure anymore. His job does not include cleaning up the voter rolls. That is the voter’s problem. McDonald replaces Cari-Ann Burgess, who left last September. He has worked in elections before,…

Lacks the Guts to Take It Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo wants more land for housing, but he won’t fight for it himself. Instead, he wrote a letter. He sent it to Nevada Democrats, asking them to push for a resolution urging the federal government to release land for development. Like a limp biscuit, he couldn’t…

Sierra Nevada Realtors released its January 2025 report on existing home sales in Carson City, along with Douglas, Lyon, Churchill, and Washoe counties, excluding Incline Village. The report details the median sales price and number of home sales across the region, sourced from the Northern Nevada Regional Multiple Listing Service. The median sales price for…

He swung himself into the saddle with the ease of a man born to the range, the leather creaking beneath him as if greeting an old friend. The sun hung low over the mesa, painting the sky in streaks of orange and red, but he paid it no mind. His gaze fixed on the horizon,…

CARSON CITY, Nev. – In a move as wild-eyed and desperate as a coked-up blackjack player doubling down on a busted hand, Governor Joe Lombardo has thrown his chips onto the table, demanding that Uncle Sam fork over chunks of Nevada’s vast federal wasteland to stave off a looming housing catastrophe. With nearly 87 percent…

SILVER SPRINGS, Nev.—(UPDATE) The deputies knocked. They called her name. They told her to come out, bring the child, make this easy, please. There was no answer. The man outside the door had told them what was happening. He said her name was Haylie Baggett, thirty-eight, locked in the bedroom with her three-year-old son. Domestic…

RENO, Nev.–The wind cut through Reno City Plaza like a dull knife, making the candle flames shiver. They stood there anyway—priests, imams, rabbis, monks—murmuring prayers over names that most of the city never knew. Seventy-seven dead. Not in some far-off war, not a catastrophe—just in the slow, grinding death of being poor in a town…

Daniel Tovar came to Stateline on a bus. He was thirty-one and from Pomona, Calif. He arrived on February 8, stepping off an Amtrak bus from Los Angeles—same state. On Saturday afternoon, he fell from the roof of Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. The valet saw him hit the ground. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office got the…