Carson City health officials were scrambling to get contact tracing done for nearly 1,200 people who tested positive before the Thanksgiving holiday in hopes they stay home. The area is seeing a huge surge in cases like most of the state. Tahoe Carson Health is at 90 percent capacity and is using beds at Carson … Read more
If you’re looking for a Thanksgiving meal, the Peppermill has what you need. Its restaurants are now at 25 percent capacity to help with social distancing-and they’re offering Thanksgiving specials not just today-but tomorrow too. Last week, the casino held its Pie it Forward fundraiser, selling homemade pumpkin pies and raising more than $8,800 for … Read more
Funeral homes and mortuaries are nearing capacity after a surge in COVID-19 cases. The Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office will serve as a back-up location. That facility still has about 90 percent of its capacity. 30 people have died from COVID-19 in less than a week in Washoe County as cases have quintupled in … Read more
We now have the name of a man who was killed in a wrong-way crash near I-80 last weekend. He is 30-year-old Sky Thomas of California. Troopers say Thomas’ pick-up crossed from westbound to eastbound and struck another pick-up head-on. The other driver also suffered serious injuries.
Sugar Bowl Resort will open tomorrow for the season — with 32 inches of natural snow on the ground. They’ll open with six lifts and COVID protocols in place. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows opened Wednesday..
One person is a dead and another behind bars in a crash on US 50 Alternate near Nevada Pacific. It happened yesterday, when troopers say two cars collided after one failed to stop at a stop sign, Police say impairment is suspected-and that driver was arrested.
A man charged in a murder earlier this year pleads not guilty. Wayne Cameron of Reno is accused of killing 29-year-old Jarrod Faust near Welcome Way in February. He was arrested for the crime in March.
The coronavirus is spreading so fast in Nevada that one person is diagnosed with it every minute and someone is dying from it every two hours, state health officials said Wednesday. Nearly half of the state’s 142,239 total cases since the start of the pandemic in March have occurred since September — fully one-fourth of … Read more
Expect increased traffic enforcement through December 7th. Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong explains; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-112620-FURLONG-Holiday%20Enforcement.mp3
The Sheriff’s Department will team up with Nevada agencies to keep roadways safe. Ken Furlong explains; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-112620-FURLONG-Holiday%20Enforcement.mp3