With the playoff lives of two teams on the line, it was a busy Friday night on Pat Hart Court in Winnemucca. Lowry High School was celebrating Winterfest, as well as the newest Hall of Fame inductees, leading to a long night. With all the distractions, the Lowry boys basketball team and Churchill County were battling to remain in playoff contention.
The 1980 Lowry High School wrestling team that ended the decade long dynasty of the Yerington Lions and Chelsea Cabatbat, Michael Billingsley, Beau Billingsley, Robert Neary and Keith Neray were inducted into the Winnemucca High Schools Hall of Fame this past Friday, as the Buckaroos took on Churchill County on Pat Hart Court
Hop in, the Water’s Fine
Taking Care of Yourself!
On Monday, Jan. 27, approximately 4:10 a.m., troopers with the Nevada Highway Patrol responded to a report of a vehicle crash on Interstate 80 (IR80), near mile 64 in Pershing County. This location is approximately 25 miles west of Winnemucca and 8 miles east of Imlay.
On Sunday, Jan. 26, at approximately 5:57 a.m., troopers with the Nevada Highway Patrol responded to a report of a vehicle crash on State Route 225, near mile 67 in Elko County.
RENO — PBS Reno is now available to Amazon Prime Video viewers in northern and central Nevada and northeastern California. PBS Reno can be found in the “Live TV” section under “Entertainment.” It also currently being highlighted in the “Featured” genre. “Once again PBS Reno steps out providing increased access to our channels through Amazon Prime Video,” said Kurt Mische, PBS Reno President and CEO. “We want to provide our award-earning quality content any time on any platform on any device so our viewers are never without us. This is a win-win for PBS Reno and Amazon Prime Video.”
WINNEMUCCA — Humboldt General Hospital (HGH) proudly announces Norman Maga as the first graduate of its newly established Pulmonary Rehabilitation program. Norman, a long-term pulmonary patient and participant in HGH’s Cardiac Rehab program, seized the opportunity to join Pulmonary Rehab when it launched, eager to improve his breathing and mobility.
The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) released the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for mathematics and reading. Despite earnest efforts by hard-working students and educators, the latest nationwide results from this assessment of student performance are cause for concern.
Waking Up
Correlations
More than $40 million was raised by backers of the abortion and ranked-choice voting ballot questions in 2024, primarily from so-called “dark money” groups that do not have to disclose their donors, campaign finance reports released last week show. Most of the money went to support Question 3, the failed initiative that would have instituted ranked-choice voting and open primaries in Nevada. The PAC behind the initiative brought in nearly $29 million, making it one of the most expensive ballot question campaigns in recent memory.
The Legislature will once again consider a proposed constitutional amendment that would remove a 159-year-old prohibition on Nevada operating a lottery. The measure, AJR5, passed easily in both legislative chambers in 2023 but requires a second approval before it can be sent to Nevada voters in 2026. History, however, isn’t on its side. More than two dozen legislative attempts to implement a Nevada lottery since 1887 have failed and never made it out of Carson City. The effort also faces headwinds this legislative session from the casino industry, which opposed the effort two years ago but is taking a more aggressive stance in 2025 and is determined to keep Nevada’s place as one of just five states without a statewide lottery.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, there are more registered Republicans than Democrats in Nevada. Using updated voter registration data from the secretary of state’s office procured by Republican strategist Jeremy Hughes, which was shared and reviewed by The Nevada Independent, Republicans built a lead of about 340 voters over Democrats in January. By November 2024, Democrats’ longstanding voter registration advantage was down to fewer than 6,000 voters in a state with more than 2 million active registered voters. Despite beating Democrats, both parties still lag registered nonpartisans, who became the biggest political group in the state in August 2022 and whose share of the electorate has continued to increase. There are nearly 692,000 registered nonpartisans, while Republicans have 617,204 voters to Democrats’ 616,863.
RENO – The fires in Los Angeles have everyone on high alert and wondering if this could happen here in Nevada. Nevada has high winds, and often they come in the winter prior to a storm. With this year being very dry, and having a lot of grass growth from some prior wet winters, it’s a perfect recipe for fire.