By Amy Alonzo The Nevada Independent For more than 50 years, Rick and B. Ann Lattin operated Lattin Farms in Fallon, a 400-acre farm that started in 1909. But this year, the Lattins, both in their late 70s, laid down their tools, leased their land and stepped back from agricultural production. Their retirement marks the end of an era for the Fallon agricultural … [Read more...]
Low-level helicopter flights to image geology in Washoe County, Western Nevada
Low-level helicopter flights are planned over a broad region in western Nevada to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey will begin in Nov 2023 and is to be completed by April 2024, weather, wildlife and wildfire restrictions permitting. Flights will cover an area of more than 15,000 square miles (39,000 square kilometers) and will include areas … [Read more...]
Reed alum and professional basketball star Gabby Williams gets Nike mural at school
Reed High School recently honored alum and sports superstar Gabby Williams with a large mural outside of the school. Gabby Williams graduated from Reed in 2013 and went on to play on championship basketball teams in college at UConn (she now plays on the Seattle Storm in the WNBA) and won a bronze medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. While in high school, Williams was also … [Read more...]
Reno middle school using robotics, sports, cheerleading to reengage students post COVID
By Rocio Hernandez The Nevada Independent Principal Jason Mattick prides himself on the welcoming, inclusive environment that he and the staff at Billinghurst Middle School in Reno have fostered. But he said students’ connection to Billinghurst eroded during the pandemic, when schools were forced to shut down and conduct classes virtually. He credits students’ … [Read more...]
Inside two Nevada scientists’ quest to conserve, track desert orchids
By Amy Alonzo The Nevada Independent There aren’t a lot of similarities between Nevada and a rainforest. Except, surprisingly, that more than a dozen species of orchids — the delicate, flashy flowers typically thought to grow in sweltering jungles — grow in pockets across an extensive portion of the nation’s driest state. But for decades, orchids have largely gone … [Read more...]
Audit: Northern Nevada veterans home plagued by contract violations, financial errors
By Eric Neugeboren The Nevada Independent The company managing the Northern Nevada State Veterans Home has not been transparent about its finances and violated certain contract requirements, according to a state audit released Thursday. The findings were presented during a Thursday meeting of the state’s Executive Branch Audit Committee, a panel of state officials … [Read more...]
Honor our Veterans at the memorial plaza this Veterans Day
If you are looking for a way to honor our country’s fallen soldiers this Veterans Day, then consider heading over to the Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza (NVMP) at the Sparks Marina for an immersive, commemorative experience. In 2014, late Sparks mayor and U.S. Navy veteran Ron Smith had the idea to build the NVMP, with a mission to create a space that preserves and honors the … [Read more...]
Billionaire proposes massive Nevada land trade with federal government
By Amy Alonzo The Nevada Independent In the 19th century, the federal government, looking to boost railway construction across the relatively undeveloped West, offered railroad companies an incentive: Expand the rail lines and receive alternating sections of land along the railway corridor. The railway companies delivered, laying thousands of miles of track, and in return … [Read more...]