Churchill County Archives

Officials Release Fire Evacuation Plan for Lake Tahoe

September 19, 2024 2:11 pmSeptember 19, 2024 4:05 pm

Lake Tahoe Fire Chiefs, Lake Tahoe Law Enforcement Agencies and Emergency Management Personnel have devised and released the Lake Tahoe Regional Evacuation Plan (see below) which is applicable to five general evacuation areas of the entire basin. South Lake Tahoe/Myers, North Lake Tahoe, Tahoe Douglas, Incline Village, and West Lake...

Sen Rosen Calls On Feds To Address Insurance Crisis in Northern Nevada

July 25, 2024 9:44 amJuly 30, 2024 11:10 pm

This post has been updated to include a statement from Elizabeth Ray, Communications Director for Governor Lombardo. The Globe was one of the first news outlets to report of the insurance crisis in Northern Nevada, specifically in the Tahoe Basin, where insurance companies are dropping or reducing coverage on properties...

VP Nominee JD Vance To Campaign in Nevada Next Week

July 24, 2024 2:00 pmJuly 25, 2024 9:24 am

Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance will make two campaign stops in Nevada on July 30. This will mark the Ohio senator’s first-ever rally in the Silver State since his nomination was announced at the Republic National Convention last Monday. Vance will appear next Tuesday at Liberty High School in Henderson....

Nevada Homeowners, Realtors Warn of ‘Insurance Crisis’ As Insurance Companies Drop Coverage

May 23, 2024 9:23 pmJune 1, 2024 7:30 pm

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a comment from Assemblywoman Heidi Kasama During a joint interim legislative committee hearing of Commerce and Labor this morning, homeowners in Incline Village highlighted a growing crisis related to insurance companies, namely American Family Insurance and Farmers Insurance, dropping or reducing coverage...

License to Burn: Wildfire as the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership (Part Two)

April 29, 2024 10:50 amSeptember 10, 2024 4:02 pm

The following is Part Two of “License to Burn.” Part One of the series can be found here. Part Three can be found here. On the night of August 14, 2021—exactly 365 days after the announced Fire Stewardship MOU—a small fire flared up a few miles from Grizzly Flats—a simple...

License To Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Private-Public Partnership

April 22, 2024 11:42 amMay 20, 2024 1:36 pm

This is Part One of a three-part series. Part Two of the series can be found here. Part Three is found here. With increasingly intense wildfires over recent years, we in the West are expected to embrace the new wildfire normal, as if it’s normal to have multiple catastrophic fires...

OPINION: Sen Rosen Continues to Play Political Games With Our Southern Border

April 19, 2024 12:47 pmApril 19, 2024 2:13 pm

Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen has remained mostly silent as the Senate dismisses the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. In February, Mayorkas became the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876 when it was discovered that he purposefully and strategically refused to...