Winnemucca News

The Nevada Department of Conservation & Natural Resources says bacteriological test indicate that E. coli and other coliform bacteria are not present in the water system.

City of Winnemucca water customers in the residential areas above Minor Street and East Winnemucca Blvd., and in the Warmoth Addition must boil their water.

RENO, Nev, -- Officials are warning people in parts of Winnemucca to boil their water before drinking it.

AINSWORTH: To Austin and Alanna of Reno, a daughter, May 24, 2013. BALDRIDGE-KNIGHT: To Rebecca Baldridge and Christopher Knight of Reno, a son, May 25, 2013.

One of the best rituals my father and I have is ordering Picon punches every time we're at the Gardnerville Basque restaurant, the J.T. Look up at my byline.

The American West's reputation for being a wild and dusty place has been enhanced over the past few decades by an increase in the amount of dust being blown around the region, according to a new study.

A Sparks motorist who was caught in the blinding dust storm in Winnemucca recounted Tuesday how he narrowly avoided being part of the 27-vehicle chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 80 that left one person dead, dozens injured and the highway closed in both directions for almost 24 hours.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Missing Person's Detail is requesting the public's assistance in locating five "Runaway Juveniles.

The judge in the hepatitis C trial has denied a motion for a mistrial. The defense requested a mistrial after Dr. Dipak Desai's former office manager told a jury she and Desai are under a LAS VEGAS -- The state of Nevada is facing a class action lawsuit on charges that it dumped mental patients on other states.

A sandstorm in Northern Nevada caused a 26-vehicle pileup that killed one person and seriously injured two others.

Troopers say 8-9 vehicles crashed on the eastbound side of the roadway, while 17-18 vehicles crashed on the westbound side.

Twenty-six vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm in rural Northern Nevada, killing one person, seriously injuring several others and sapping already-thin emergency resources Monday evening, officials said.

The eastbound and westbound lanes of I-80, near mile marker 176 in the Winnemucca City Limits are closed after a multi vehicle accident Monday evening.

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. Interstate 80 is closed in both directions in Winnemucca after a dust storm caused a 17 car crash that killed one person, said Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Jim Stewart.

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -- Federal land managers are accepting public comments on their proposal to acquire 320 acres of private land bordering the East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness in northwest Nevada.

Norm Dianda is calling it quits - sort of. The longtime president of Q&D Construction is handing over the day-to-day operations of his company to his two sons and a top-tier executive in hopes, at age 74, for a little time off.

Contributed photo -- An artist's rendition shows the planned exterior landscape of the planned Bourbon Street Casino, which will make its home in the old Silver Club building.

A California man's appeal over federal land managers' decision to increase the Burning Man festival's attendance cap in the northern Nevada desert has been dismissed.

Nevada Casino Holdings, LLC, owners / operators of The Model T in Winnemucca, El Capitan in Hawthorne, Stockmen's, Commercial and Scoreboard in Elko are announcing the late summer opening of the Bourbon Street Casino in Sparks.

Two people are in the Humboldt County Jail after a traffic stop led to troopers finding 159 pounds of marijuana.