Carson City News

Seasonal drying conditions, increasing daytime temperatures and a number of human-caused fires have prompted the Bureau of Land Management , Carson City District Office and the Nevada Division of Forestry's Sierra Forest Fire Protection District to announce the implementation of fire restrictions on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 , at 12:01 a.m., and ... (more)

The sale of a 1,800-acre patch of east Pulaski County along the Arkansas River tipped the scales at $1.8 million.

Junior Dos Santos flattened Frank Mir with a huge right hand and finished him on the ground at 3:04... Eric Raydon stepped out of a home on Roberts Street just west of Wells Avenue in Reno, the smile on... RENO, Nev.

Questions are being raised over the initial fire department response to a backyard residential burn that rekindled two days later, destroying two homes in a rural Nevada community and scorching 7,500 acres.

A $5,000 per month proposal by Kaempfer, Crowell attorneys at law to lobby for Nye County at the state level was rejected by a 3-2 vote of Nye County Commissioners Monday.

Up in Carson City, there's an organizational chart of state government. At the top, above even the governor, there's a box for the people of the state of Nevada.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Candidates filed campaign finance reports this week, revealing how much money they got in their quests for office and where that money came from.

Be warned that you're dealing with someone of the Luddite persuasion as I talk about Google's new self-driving car.

Too often, political expedience trumps common sense and the public interest. That's been especially true in Carson City, where sensible reforms wind up in the shredder almost every legislative session.

A Cal Fire aircraft drops flame retardant on the Topaz Ranch Estates Fire in Wellington, Nevada May 23, 2012.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Emergency personnel respond to a wildfire in Reno on Friday, Nov.

A grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will help pay the costs of fighting a Nevada wildfire that destroyed two homes and burned more than 6,000 acres in southern Douglas County.

The study released Tuesday by the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center says Nevada is one of 10 states where guns deaths were greater than traffic deaths.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. They are pedantic or superficial or meaningless.

CARSON CITY, Nev. - A fast-moving wildfire near the Nevada-California line destroyed at least two homes on Tuesday as it forced evacuations and sent up huge plumes of black smoke.

Assemblyman Pat Hickey called for tightening Nevada's campaign contribution reporting laws and shortening election cycles Monday, saying under the current system lawmakers spend too much time raising money and taxing the patience of voters.

In this Jan. 24, 2011 file photo, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval makes his first State of the State address in Carson City, Nev.

Education reformers tend to get flattened in Nevada. James Guthrie knew as much when he became the state's new superintendent of schools last month.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Former Nevada prison directors Robert Bayer, right, and Howard Skolnik, left, tour the Nevada State Prison in Carson City on Friday, May 18, 2012, after a decommissioning ceremony.

The Nye County School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved allocating funds for a lobbyist to represent the district in the upcoming Nevada legislative session beginning in February.