John Byrne Photos/Tribune Sparks High School Punkin’ Chunkin’ coach Couto and his team work on their entry Saturday at the Andelin Family Farm. On Saturday, the Andelin Family Farm hosted Washoe County School District’s fifth annual Punkin’ Chunkin’ event where students from across all grade levels came out and showed off their pumpkin-chucking trebuchets. The idea for … [Read more...]
Nevada News Briefs
Police: Description of Vehicle in Fatal Hit-and-Run Revised RENO — Reno police say investigators have revised the description of a suspect vehicle in the hit-and-run death Tuesday of a 14-year-old girl. Police said Saturday that investigators remain “fairly certain” that the suspect vehicle is a 1988 to 1993 GMC 1500 standard-cab pickup but that better quality video … [Read more...]
Open Enrollment Begins on Nevada’s New State-Based Exchange Platform
By Megan Messerly The Nevada Independent The biggest test for Nevada’s health insurance exchange begins today. The exchange is launching — for the second time in its six-year history — a fully state-run platform to enroll Nevadans in health insurance plans through the individual marketplace. In the simplest of terms, that means no longer will Nevadans sign up for … [Read more...]
Fire in Sparks Warehouse District Damages 3 Vacant Buildings
SPARKS — Sparks fire officials are investigating a blaze that severely damaged three unoccupied buildings in a warehouse district near the Nugget hotel-casino where several of fires were started over the past 18 months by trespassers in abandoned structures. No injuries were reported in the fire that broke out at the one-story buildings just after 9:15 a.m. Monday south of … [Read more...]
US Judge Dismisses Case Against Legal Brothels in Nevada
By Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed a lawsuit that invoked sex trafficking laws in a bid to close the nation’s only legal brothels. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno said in her Tuesday ruling that she empathized with three women who claim they were victims of sexual violence in Nevada and other places. … [Read more...]
Nevada Suit Seeks to Protect Rare Wildflower from Mining
By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — Conservationists are suing the Trump administration to try to block mining exploration in Nevada they say would wipe out the only known population of a desert wildflower. The Center for Biological Diversity filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier this month to list Tiehm’s buckwheat as an … [Read more...]
Reed Students Receive Grant to Fund Project that would help keep Pyramid Lake Clean
John Byrne/Tribune Reed High Career & Technical Education students were awarded a $10,000 grant to help perfect a device they invented that would remove cigarette butts out of sewers so that the toxins won’t end up in Pyramid Lake. From left, Devan Turner; Henry He; Hunter Harkleorad; Ryan Syad; Leigh Metcalfe (teacher); Alex Marsh; Peter Bertolino; Teague Kelley and Ely … [Read more...]
Dems in Congress Demand Update on Interior Wild Horse Plans
By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after the head of its public lands agency told reporters it will take $5 billion and 15 years to get overpopulated herds under control. William Perry Pendley, acting director … [Read more...]