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By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — A small explosion in a basement boiler at a University of Nevada, Reno dormitory triggered a much larger natural gas blast last week that left part of the building looking like an earthquake had struck but caused only minor injuries to eight people, officials said Tuesday. The initial […]
Official: Boiler Explosion Triggered Gas Blast at Dorm
Expect Long Lines Come Election Day 2020
Democracy is a chaotic endeavor. Nevada lawmakers have made it more so. Expect long lines and delayed results come the next Election Day. Assembly Bill 345, which passed on a party line vote with Democrats favoring and Republicans opposed, will allow people to register to vote on the same day of an election rather than […]
BLM Proposes Firebreaks to Reduce the Size of Wildfires
The Bureau of Land Management is currently conducting a series of public hearings across the West to get input on an audacious proposal to limit the unchecked spread of rangeland wildfires. The BLM says wildfires have increased dramatically in size and frequency in the past decade in six Western states — Nevada, Utah, California, Idaho, […]
Pony Express Stations: Smith Creek
This will be the last in my series of articles about the Pony Express stations in western Nevada. When Pony Bob Haslam made the longest ride in Pony Express history, he rode the route from Friday’s Station at Lake Tahoe to Smith Creek Station almost halfway across the state of Nevada. My articles have described […]
Local Teen to Compete on National Stage
July 11, 2019
BLM to Conduct Wild Horse Gather in Eastern Nevada
The Bureau of Land Management will begin a wild horse gather near Ely on or about July 8. The purpose of this gather is to reduce overpopulation of wild horses in Eastern Nevada and to prevent further degradation of public lands by helping to balance herd size. Wild horses removed from the range will be […]
History: Baseball in Eureka
1900 – 1910 was a bully time in American sport, as President Theodore Roosevelt might have phrased it. Boxing fans turned out by the thousands for open air boxing matches. For example, the “Fight of the Century,” July 4, 1910, between heavyweight champion Jack Johnson and challenger Jim Jefferies before 20,000 spectators in Reno. Then […]
Is This You? Crystal Clear!
When you hear crystal clear do you think of a brook, stream, river or maybe an inlet of a mountain lake. Ahhh. Such calm crystal clear water. Well that is not where we will travel to today. Think this way. Crystal clear–glassware. Then think of the last time you got a glass out of the […]
Natural Causes, Not Mining Fatality, Caused Death in Nevada
Associated Press EUREKA — Federal safety regulators say a death reported as a mining fatality in Nevada earlier this year was the result of natural causes. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration rescinded its findings last week in the May 13 death of 57-year-old Dean Pilcher of Eureka, Colorado. The agency said he died […]