Not the Usual Fare in News Sixty-two years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, becoming one of the most pivotal and controversial moments in U.S. history. Kennedy’s relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had already been strained, particularly after the disastrous Bay of…

I rolled in from the graveyard shift just as the sun was rising over the horizon. My bones ached, my eyes burned, and I wanted to collapse into bed and let the world spin on without me. But there it was, sitting on my doorstep like it’d been waiting all night: a package. It was…

The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Jayson Daniel for a welfare check at the request of his family. Daniel was last known to be in the Reno/Sparks area near the Peppermill Casino. Authorities report that Daniel may be driving a charcoal gray 2021 Ford Ranger with Nevada license plate…

The fine people of Beatty sighed in relief when Beatty Disposal, under the grand and illustrious empire of C and S Waste Solutions, gifted them with garbage dumpsters. It put a swift and merciful end to a longstanding skirmish with the town’s real governing body—the free-range burros. Before these modern marvels of refuse containment, folks…

A Lawmaker’s Guide to Infringement The Nevada Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, has decided once more to whittle away at that little phrase “shall not be infringed,” as though it were a mere suggestion rather than the unambiguous command of the Constitution. First up on the chopping block is Assembly Bill 105, a noble effort…

It appears the good people of Las Vegas have finally caught themselves a genuine villain, a man of mischief and malice, who took it upon himself to set fire to automobiles in the dead of night as if he were some outlaw poet raging against the modern world. Paul Hyon Kim, aged 36, was hauled…

Just Drink Whiskey Instead A boil water notice was issued for the fine and upstanding–if occasionally parched, citizens of South Q Street in Virginia City because some contrary-minded water pipes decided to spring a leak. The unexpected bit of aquatic rebellion has left residents in the unenviable position of choosing between boiling their drinking water…

A Fine Mess of Progress and Preservation Congressman Mark Amodei has once again set his sights on rearranging Northern Nevada’s landscape by reintroducing the Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, a scheme that aims to shuffle federal lands about like a deck of well-worn playing cards. If it finds favor in the halls of…

Ellie Grayson had always felt the pull of the wild places, the kind of deep, bone-level yearning that made her ache for the open sky and the smell of pine over the pavement. She’d grown up with dirt under her nails, chasing fireflies in the Ozarks, and even now, at thirty-two, she couldn’t shake that…

Minding the Monarchs It has come to pass that in the great and sovereign state of Nevada, where men wager fortunes on the roll of a dice and the pull of a lever, the common butterfly is left to its own devices, unprotected by the law and unburdened by the bureaucracy that so diligently tends…