A Winnemucca toddler is dead after being bit by a rattlesnake. News 4 reports Alyssa Johnson was taken to Humboldt County Hospital, where they say she was denied anti-venom treatment and eventually transferred to Renown, where she later died. The hospital didn’t return the TV station’s request for comment.
COVID-19 testing expands in Reno. Drive-thru testing is now being offered at two Walmarts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. The testing is being done at the stores on the 52-hundred block of West 7th Street and the 100 block of Damonte Ranch Parkway.
A shots fired incident in Reno turns into a murder. Police say a person who was shot near the La Quinta Inn on Market Street Wednesday night has died.
Reno firefighters make quick work of a fire. They were called to a building, leased by the University of Nevada Reno on the 700 block West Fifth Street last night, where they say a fire was sparked outside and spread into the attic of a building. They believe a homeless person may have set the … Read more
Police need your help finding a silver pick-up truck they say was involved in a hit-and-run. They say the truck another vehicle at College Drive and Crest Lane in Incline Village Tuesday night and fled. Police say the truck in question is an early 2000s Toyota Tacoma with left front fender and bumper damage.
Two staffers at the Jan Evans Juvenile Justice Center have tested positive for COVID-19. They’re bot h self-isolating, 57 other staffers and 20 children all tested negative for coronavirus.
Gig workers across Nevada can start applying for unemployment insurance starting on Saturday. During a virtual news conference on Thursday, interim director Heather Korbulic said the state’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program will be live starting May 16. Nevada was the last state to launch a portal where rideshare drivers, massage therapists and other independent contractors … Read more
Washoe County health officials reported two new deaths, 13 recoveries and 22 additional cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. There are 45 COVID-19 related deaths in Washoe County. The county’s total number of positive cases is 1,154 along with 575 recoveries. Quad County reports the first COVID-19 case in Storey County.
Nevada Health Response reported that there are 6,499 positive cases of coronavirus. They also report that 62,985 people have tested negative. They report 339 people have died from the virus statewide. More than 82,990 tests have been performed statewide. The Washoe County Health District reports the number of cases in the County is 1,154 and … Read more
The U.S. Geological Service is reporting that a magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck in remote western Nevada early this morning. The temblor was reported at 4:03 a.m. about 35 miles outside Tonopah, just east of the Sierra Nevada range. People from Salt Lake City, Utah, to California’s Central Valley tweeted that they felt the quake.