Wild Nevada, the award-earning production from PBS Reno, is back with a brand new season featuring exciting adventures, incredible stories, and wonderful people from throughout the state!
Happy New Year! Thank you to our communities for the ongoing support of our outdoor programs throughout 2022! We had record attendance at some events and enjoyed trying new outdoor activities in our communities.
Dr. Shouping Li served Humboldt County’s residents for 12 years as a member of Humboldt General Hospital’s medical staff. Now, Dr. Li has returned to Winnemucca to serve the community as a full-time private practice family physician, providing well-care, sick-care and chronic-care management to both children and adults.
Just three days into 2023, the Humboldt County Board of Commissioners met for their regular meeting and kicked off the New Year by welcoming Commissioner Ron Cerri back for a third and final term with the Commission and the Board’s newest elect, Mark Evatz, for his first term with the Commission.
Gov. Steve Sisolak left office on Jan. 2 after serving a single term as Nevada’s top executive, having navigated the state through a pandemic, an economic crisis and two regular and three special legislative sessions. Stretching back to his initial gubernatorial campaign in 2018 and through multiple State of the State addresses delivered before Nevada’s odd-year legislative sessions, Sisolak has promised action on a range of key issues from health care to education to guns. But how many promises was the governor able to keep during his four years in office?
More than 700 people braved icy roads to gather at the Carson Community Center on Tuesday to celebrate the swearing-in of the state’s 31st governor, Republican former Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who declared the state was on the “threshold of another great Nevada era.”
Beginning Jan. 1, a new Nevada law will decriminalize several minor traffic offenses, including driving with broken tail lights and carrying people in the bed of a truck, eliminating the possibility of jail time for such violations and for those unable to pay their traffic fines. The law, approved by the Legislature and Gov. Steve Sisolak in 2021, will also cancel all outstanding warrants for minor traffic violations, changing those misdemeanor offenses into civil infractions.
For the past 60 years, the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB) has worked to help Nevada’s school districts collaborate and improve public education. Serving as Clerk for the Humboldt County School District Board of Trustees (HCSDBT), Nicole Bengochea also wears another hat, taking up the position of President-Elect for the NASB for 2023.
The interpretation of a 150-year-old mining law could be a part of whether a U.S. District Court judge upholds the federal government’s approval of a massive lithium mine — a project that has faced challenges from a local rancher, environmental groups and Native American tribes.
A Washoe County sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized after being hit by a drunk driver in Reno. Authorities say the incident happened while the deputy was conducting a traffic stop shortly before 1 a.m. Monday.
The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) hosts its 46th annual Convention and Sporting Expo “The Sheep Show” Jan. 12-14 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center and the Peppermill Resort Spa & Casino.
The Bureau of Land Management Nevada State Office is accepting comments on a proposed withdrawal extension of Public Land Order No. 7566 to protect and preserve significant cultural and recreational resources in the historic town of Rhyolite, Nevada, located in Nye County. The proposed withdrawal extension would protect 277.05 acres of public lands at the town and associated cemetery for a period of 20 years from settlement, sale, location, or entry under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws, but not the mineral leasing laws.
The Bureau of Land Management announced it will commence review of the proposed Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Mine Project. Lithium is one of the elements on the U.S. Geological Survey’s 2022 list of critical minerals and an important component of batteries for electric vehicles and personal electronics.
It’s that time of year again - time for agonizing reappraisals of who we are, and who we wish to become. While the resolutions of January become the dissolutions of February, there is at least the nobility of good intentions. Yes, it’s New Year’s resolution time!! Present day resolutions must surely include losing weight, stopping smoking, and exercising more (or at least some). Eating right might also make the list, as might simply ‘being a better person’.
As many as 37 fossilized, school bus-sized marine reptiles from 225 million years ago are clustered in a remote, mountainous desert region of central Nevada in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. A team of scientists have offered new evidence for solving the decades-old puzzle of why the extinct ichthyosaurs are there.