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

April 22, 2024 11:42 amApril 22, 2024 4:39 pm

This is Part One of a three-part series. 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 in any given fire season. Running for your life from burning houses because of...

Undocumented Couple Held on $1M Bail for Massive Mail Theft In Rural NV

April 19, 2024 2:12 pmApril 22, 2024 11:42 am

An undocumented couple, who were deported in 2019, have found their way back into the country entering Northern Nevada from California. During their travels in Reno, Carson County, Douglas County, Lyon County, Storey County and Washoe County, they were pulled over for speeding and then arrested and charged with multiple...

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...

Washoe County Library Board Rejects Book Challenge Appeals

April 19, 2024 9:40 amApril 19, 2024 9:41 am

During a meeting of the Washoe County Library Board on Wednesday, trustees voted to reject the appeals of five members of the public who had challenged eight books within the library system’s collection—opting instead to maintain Board Director Jeff Scott’s initial decision to deny their book challenges. The failure of...

Cortez Masto Advisor Killed by Man Who Entered US Illegally

April 17, 2024 1:16 pmApril 18, 2024 2:09 pm

Elmer Rueda-Linares has been arrested in connection with the death of Kurt Englehart, a Senior Advisor to Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. Rueda-Linares entered the country illegally in March 2021 and is currently being detained in the Washoe County Jail on $100,000 bond. Mark Robison of the Reno Gazette Journal...

Trackergate: NV Supreme Court Rules PI Must Disclose Client’s Identity

April 16, 2024 11:00 amApril 18, 2024 7:21 pm

Yesterday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled (see below) that a private investigator hired by a “John Doe” must disclose his client’s identity who had hired him to investigate Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and former Washoe County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung ahead of an election. McNeely chose to use a GPS tracking...

WCSD Trustee Accuses Board President Of Conspiracy In Sexual Harassment Allegations

April 11, 2024 4:25 pmApril 18, 2024 2:10 pm

At Tuesday’s Washoe County School District’s (WCSD) monthly meeting, Trustee Jeff Church accused Board President Beth Smith of conspiring against him with two unknown, uninvestigated female whistleblowers who claim that Church had “made then feel uncomfortable” leading to subsequent allegations of sexual harassment after a school board meeting last fall....