RENO - If you were in northern Nevada on July 1-2, you may have received something like a message on your smartphone that was unlike any you have ever received before.
RENO - NV Energy has learned that persons identifying themselves as employees of the company are calling customers and threatening to disconnect their power if a credit card payment or cash transfer is not made over the phone immediately.
CARSON CITY - Job skills testing that helps match employers with desirable employees and points workers to preferred jobs is now available at Western Nevada College.
CARSON CITY - The State Historic Preservation Office will distribute more than $180,000 to government agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout the state to support historic building rehabilitation or restoration, public education, surveys, planning, and National Register nominations.
CARSON CITY - Low water levels caused by persistent drought conditions and irrigation demands at Wildhorse Reservoir have prompted the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) to remove the limit on trout, allowing anglers unlimited take. This emergency regulation is now in effect and will run through October 15.
UNIONVILLE - For the seventh year in a row, Unionville has celebrated Independence Day with a Fourth of July parade.
CARSON CITY (AP) - Boating at Lahontan Reservoir is getting tricky and risky.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two large wildfires raged Tuesday in Nevada, where firefighters worked to gain the upper hand on a mountain blaze near Las Vegas that kept hundreds of people from their homes and another southwest of Reno that jumped in size a day earlier.
CARSON CITY (AP) - An auction is scheduled in August to sell the second half of a gold fortune found in the home of a Carson City man after he died.
RENO (AP) - A conservation group is asking a federal judge to set aside federal land managers' plans to remove sagebrush, pinion pines and junipers across a large swath of public lands in eastern Nevada.
RENO - As Living With Fire programs, 4-H Youth Summer Camps and Grow Your Own, Nevada gardening classes are in full swing this time of the year, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension welcomes a new interim dean.
ELKO - A Chautauqua on former Nevada Gov. John Sparks is planned for Saturday, July 13, at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
CARSON CITY - New research by Connect Nevada reveals encouraging news for the state's broadband landscape. Access to higher speeds of Internet service is on the rise in both urban and rural areas across Nevada.
ALICIA CRAIG • The Lovelock Review-MinerWhen it's hot in Lovelock everyone's favorite place to be is at the Lovelock Pool. Temperatures have been pushing into the high 90s of late, which is pretty typical for July.
CARSON CITY - The upcoming travel season and Nevada's heritage will take center stage this summer with new programs, extended museum hours and an opportunity to celebrate the state's sesquicentennial, Gov. Brian Sandoval announced at a July 3 press conference at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City.