Washoe County News

Sharnel Silvey rides around downtown several times a month with the Reno Police Department's Regional Street Enforcement Team, eager to talk to the women who will get trapped in a sting operation while soliciting for prostitution.

While "Girls Gone Wild" creator, Joe Francis was sentenced this morning in Los Angeles to time served and one year of probation related to tax evasion counts and bribing Washoe County Jail workers, here's what's next for the remaining defendants in the Reno bribery case: Hollywood video producer Aaron Weinstein, 45, worked for Francis, and was ...

Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty says he will seek re-election next year to a second term.

Officials say more than 80 children will officially become members of adopted families during ceremonies marking National Adoption Day in Las Vegas.

Chief Justice Jim Hardesty has his eye on a second term on the bench. He's announced he'll run for the Nevada Supreme Court again.

Health officials in southern Nevada and Washoe County have scheduled swine flu immunization clinics for Saturday.

Detectives are investigating whether an elderly woman played a role in the fatal stabbing of her husband, who was found dead at the couple's Incline Village home in October.

Registered sex offenders in the Las Vegas Valley are receiving knocks on their doors in the days leading up to Halloween.

A new report says prostitution-related arrests have plunged around Reno. A newspaper that examined the figures says prostitution-related arrests have declined to 89 so this year from 251 in 2004.

Reno, Nevada. October 27, 2009. The Washoe County Commission today at their regularly scheduled meeting approved the following on-going agreements with other local government entities to enhance our communitya s quality of life, specifically in the area of public safety.

Reno, Nevada. October 29, 2009. At their regularly scheduled meeting yesterday, Washoe County Commissioners directed planning staff to make specific revisions to a proposed nuisance ordinance and return on December 8th for a first reading of said ordinance with a second reading and possible adoption on January 12, 2010.

Federal land managers are seeking public comment on their plan to remove about 2,500 wild horses in northern Nevada.

Reno police say officers shot and wounded a man after he raised a weapon with a laser sight at them.

Commissioners agreed they want a role in negotiations for a new contract with Reno firefighters or else the county could start its own fire department.

About two dozen people rallied today to drum up support for a grand jury investigation of their claims of corruption by top University of Nevada, Reno officials.

The man shot by Reno police officers Wednesday night at a downtown motel threatened them with a plastic replica pistol that had a red laser sight, Washoe County sheriff's investigators said Thursday.

Health officials are urging the public to exercise patience and courtesy after a fight broke out when someone tried to cut in line today at a Reno swine flu clinic.

Reno police say a debt and/or drugs are behind Friday's shooting of a 20-year-old man in a psychiatric hospital's parking lot.

In addition to elimination the section of the proposed nuisance ordinances that would have allowed the Lake Tahoe area of Washoe County to have area-specific nuisances, the Washoe County Commissioners also asked staff to make the following major changes: Modify the definition of public view to make sure that an object inside a structure is not ...

Taxable sales in Nevada plunged 24.1 percent in August, marking that 10th straight month of double-digit declines, the Nevada Department of Taxation reported Wednesday.