News Carson City

Final decisions are coming up in the next few weeks on the look and visual texture of landscaping for the Carson City Freeway!

After years of planning and searching out grants, Carson City’s new freeway will soon have a freeway landscaping design like no other in the country. Part 2

Saying that government must be reduced and that Nevadans can solve their own problems without help from Washington DC, Governor Gibbons tonight laid down the gauntlet: “No New Taxes and cut the budget.” Read the rest of this entry »

More advice from MedCare Pharmacist Kirk Wentworth on eating healthier…

MedCare Pharmacist Kirk Wentworth gets down to the nitty gritty on America’s problematic eating habits.

From the National Weather Service in Reno:

Warning Message:A cold low pressure system will drop from the Gulf of Alaska
southward along the California coastline on tonight into tomorrow.
This will bring a period of snow showers to much of the
region…including the western Nevada valleys around Reno and
Carson City. Due to the showery nature of this system…snow
amounts are going to vary considerably from one location to
another. Read the rest of this entry »

As Nevadans from Las Vegas to Gerlach, and from Reno to Ely watch Governor Gibbons tonight at 6 on TV, they’ll be watching a Governor lay out the state’s darkest picture in the history of Nevada. The picture will be of a Nevada that is broke with little prospect of paying its bills. Some wonder if the federal courts will step in because Nevada may no longer be able to protect its citizens or render services guaranteed under federal law. Read the rest of this entry »

Two recent snowmakers have left additional snow in the Sierra, bringing snowwater levels along the Carson River to 107% of normal. its 95% along the Walker, 97% of normal around Lake Tahoe, and 95% along the Truckee River watershed which serves Reno and Sparks. Read the rest of this entry »

Showing once again the emerging marketing and delivery clout of the internet, national video rental chain Hollywood Video has announced the closure of over 1,500 stores nationwide, including one in Carson City. Read the rest of this entry »

After determining that their family really had no further use for them, and that they ought to be in the hands of those who care about them, the daughter of renown photographer Ansel Adams has given extremely rare photos of the Comstock era to the Nevada Historical Society. The photographs from the 1860’s were proud possessions of the late western landscape photographer Ansel Adams. Read the rest of this entry »