The Battle Mountain NNA swim team was recently in Reno for the Silver State Championships, a home meet for the club that is based out of Reno. Temperatures rose to 105 degrees but high winds and lightning played havoc with the championships All of the preliminary races were held but just one final was completed and prelim times carried over to the finals.
Katie Cassinelli carded a round of 85 to win the Doug Maddox Memorial junior golf tournament held Wednesday, July 16, at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course.
It was a pretty good week for three Humboldt County cowgirls at the National High School Finals Rodeo that concluded this past Saturday night at the Sweetwater Events Complex in Rock Springs, Wyo.
Nevada ranks close to dead last in women’s health and reproductive care across all U.S. states and the District of Columbia, a new report shows. The report by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation working to improve the quality and access of the United States health-care system, is part of a series examining state health system performance and used 32 criteria to evaluate each state based on health care access, affordability, quality of care and health outcomes for women in the U.S. This is the first time the group has created a scorecard for women’s health and reproductive care.
An organization providing legal services to those in need has become the first group of its kind in Nevada to unionize in an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. Taylor Marie Bassell, staff attorney at Northern Nevada Legal Aid (NNLA), has been pushing to unionize the organization since March.
Nevada’s two Democratic senators rarely agree with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — let alone former Republican President Donald Trump. But Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) signed onto a bill Thursday that Cruz proposed to end federal taxation on tips, becoming the first Democrats to co-sponsor the policy in either chamber. It’s a move approved by the influential Culinary Workers Union Local 226, a longtime ally of the senators
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump’s campaign and its allies that sought to end Nevada’s practice of counting mail ballots received up to four days after Election Day. In a Wednesday ruling, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du dismissed the case on the grounds that the plaintiffs — which also included the Republican National Committee (RNC), Nevada GOP and a Nevada voter — did not have standing to file the lawsuit, which alleged the state is violating federal election law by accepting and counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but received as many as four days after the election. The Associated Press first reported news of the dismissal Wednesday.
President Joe Biden called for a de-escalation in political rhetoric but kept up criticism of former President Donald Trump on Monday, in Biden’s first interview since a Saturday assassination attempt on Trump. Talking to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, Biden said he called the injured Trump on Saturday to convey his well wishes.
Homeschool families and those considering homeschooling are invited to join an informative session addressing key questions about the transition from homeschool to college. The event, slated for Tuesday, July 30 at 6 p.m., will cover essential topics such as whether to graduate a child from an accredited program or a personal homeschool curriculum, and the implications of each choice for college admissions and financial aid. The meeting will take place in the main building in room 108.
The Big Boy locomotive gathered steam heading across northern Nevada last week in an old-fashioned display of embellishing the railroad’s role in developing the West. Scores of people gathered in communities across the tri-county area to see world’s largest operating steam locomotive, the Union Pacific’s legendary Big Boy No. 4014 that was built in the early 1940s to conquer mountains.
The Great Outdoors
Lander County officials have scheduled a critical meeting for landowners involved in the Austin Realignment Project. The meeting is set for August 1, 2024, at Marquis Aurbach, located at 416 Ridge Street, Reno, Nevada, 89501.
The Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has activated four Department of Defense C-130 aircraft including one from Nevada that are equipped with special equipment to assist with increased wildfire activity across the West.
Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is set to host National Night Out, a nationwide event dedicated to crime prevention, drug prevention, and community safety. Scheduled to take place on Aug. 6, the event will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Whitworth Recreation Complex, adjacent to the Boys & Girls Club of Winnemucca.
Lunches are served each weekday at noon and soup and croutons is served at 11 a.m. the Pleasant Senior Center, 1480 Lay Street. Lunches are open to the public. Suggested minimum donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Visitors must be 16 years or older. Their meal is $10. Hot soup at croutons served daily with meal.