Washoe County adds a single COVID-19 death for a total of 584. The latest death involves a man in his 80s with underlying health conditions. The county added 75 new cases and 368 recoveries. So far, the Washoe County Health District has administered more than 16,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Of those just over 2,500 … Read more
Stay-at-home orders and curfews have been lifted in all counties in California though hospital capacity still remains grim in some places. Public health officials in that state say they’ll return to county-by-county restrictions with local jurisdictions able to impose stricter rules. Truckee Mayor Anna Klovstad says that Nevada County’s stay-at-home order ended two weeks ago, … Read more
We now have the names of two men who were killed in a three-vehicle crash on I-80 near the state line last week. They are 30-year-old Jarred Johnson of Truckee and 37-year-old Jaime Ramirez. Police say both men died last Thursday from multiple blunt force traumas.
Gov. Steve Sisolak sent a letter to the federal government Monday calling on them to increase Nevada’s COVID-19 vaccine allocation after it was reported Nevada was getting the second fewest vaccines per capita, according to the CDC. In a letter to acting Health and Human Services Secretary Norris Cochran, Sisolak said ‘we need our fair … Read more
Empire Elementary school is beta testing a Thermometer watch prototype. Dan Davis has more; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-012621-DAVIS-Thermometer%20Watches.mp3 550 watches were donated to the school.
Dan Davis has more on a local scientist donating 550 thermometer watches to Carson’s Empire Elementary; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-012621-DAVIS-Thermometer%20Watches.mp3 The school is beta testing the prototype.
Empire Elementary School received 550 Thermometer Watches from a local scientist. Dan Davis has more; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-012621-DAVIS-Thermometer%20Watches.mp3 The school is beta testing the prototype.
Hospitalizations tied to COVID-19 are at their lowest point in Washoe County early November. 155 persons are hospitalized with the virus. Washoe County saw no new COVID-19 deaths Sunday after adding five deaths Saturday. The death toll now stands at 582. Sunday, the county added 122 infections and more than 350 recoveries.
Winter weather led to a delay for students in the Washoe County school district for both in-person and remote learners. You could see slick travel through the day with much of northern Nevada along US 50 between Washoe and White Pine counties under a Winter Weather Advisory. Another storm arrives tomorrow afternoon, prompting a Winter … Read more
Shots are fired in downtown Sparks. Police found shell casings on the 400 block of 11th Street early Saturday morning, but no injured persons. They say security camera footage of the scene got them a person of interest, who’s yet to be found.