GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A northern Nevada highway remained partially closed Tuesday in both directions south of Gardnerville in Douglas County because of a wildfire that has burned a reported eight square miles.
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — The Douglas County Commission has denied an appeal by a group of ranchers who want to open a slaughterhouse on the edge of Gardnerville.
An altercation between members of a Nevada county commission that resulted in one commissioner going to a hospital, and another publicly apologizing, has prompted a law enforcement investigation.
One student, identified as Kendrick Ray Castillo, was killed when he reportedly tried to tackle one attacker. The shooting came weeks after the 20th anniversary of the shooting in nearby Columbine.
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — The Douglas County Commission has reversed course and approved zoning for a 75-unit housing project north of Genoa that had been the target of a lawsuit.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 19-year-old from El Salvador admitted killing a married couple in Nevada and used a handgun that he said he stole earlier from their Reno home to do it, according to a sheriff's report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A 62-year-old northern Nevada woman has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for guardianship abuse of her 93-year-old father.
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada have completed a cold-case search without finding any human remains or evidence at the property of a man who was stabbed to death last summer after serving time in a California prison for a murder conviction.
The indictment stems from a July incident in which a group of white men in Confederate flag-adorned pickup trucks verbally clashed with black partygoers. Some of the confrontation was caught on video.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Flash flooding again closed roads and highways along the Sierra's eastern front on Thursday as thunderstorms dumped heavy rain from north of Reno to south of Carson City for the third day in a row.
Douglas County residents are digging out after flash flooding left up to three feet of mud and debris in some neighborhood streets south of Carson City....
