The states of Nevada and Colorado joined a western regional pact Monday to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak while moving closer to reopening businesses and modifying stay-at-home orders. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak resisted joining a West Coast pact earlier this month with California, Oregon and Washington, saying he intended to base any decisions about … Read more
Health Officials are reporting that a man in his 50s with underlying health conditions is the 28 death in Washoe county due to the coronavirus on Monday. There were also 16 new cases on Monday bringing the county’s total to 820. An additional 13 people have recovered bringing the total recoveries to 278.
Five more persons have died from coronavirus in Washoe County with the death toll now standing at 27. The county has 804 total cases though of those, 265 persons have recovered. Hospitals are at about 60 percent capacity with about half of county’s ICU beds in use. Statewide, there are more than 4,500 cases of … Read more
The Quad-County region sees an uptick in coronavirus cases over the weekend. They’ve added 7 cases for a total of 82. The latest cases involve some young persons-including a woman under 18 in Lyon County and a Carson City woman in her 20s as well as a man from Douglas County in his 30s. The … Read more
Dozens protest state-at-home orders in downtown Reno and Carson City over the weekend. Protesters marched in Reno from Sierra Street to Rancho San Rafael Park. The area’s first protest was held in Carson City last weekend.
An abandoned car catches fire-with that fire spreading to a small patch of nearby wild land in Truckee Meadows. Firefighters managed to control the spread. No structures were damaged. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Three people from Arizona are dead in a small plane crash in a remote part of Elko County. The bodies of Thomas and Stacie Kvanvig and their 8-year-old son were found Saturday after their plane went down Friday night near the Utah border. They say the plane was trying to land for unknown reasons when … Read more
Four members of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe have tested positive for COVID-19. Tribal chairman Anthony Sampson says a few citations have also been handed out to violators of the tribe’s 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.
The Nevada Department of Public Safety gets more than $7 million in federal grant money to deal with safety challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is on top of $4 million received by local jurisdictions earlier this year.
An investigation is underway after a battery with a deadly weapon happened shortly after 8 p.m. on Sunday night in North Reno. Reno Police Department says officers responded to the 700 block of West Golden Valley Road on the report of a battery that had just occured. The victime, who had apparently been stabbed was … Read more