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As a Reno metro resident, I was shocked to watch the mountains north of the city go ablaze. Nevada’s wildfire insurance rules ...

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National Poetry Month has been touted as the largest literary event in America, held every April in towns and cities nationwide, since 1996. The celebration brings together poets, students, educators, ...

Danielle Henderson laughs when friends call her a water nerd, but for her, the Truckee River is more than just a job–it’s a living system she’s spent 18 years learning to protect. Henderson is the ...

For the most part, however, warming temperatures mean precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, changing the decisions water managers make about storing runoff from the Sierras, which supplies ...

First, it was East Reno. At one point, it was New Town Tract. Then it became Harriman, after the president of Southern Pacific Railroad, whose workers built a switching yard and repair center in 1904.

Blaise Jorgensen regularly meets with clients to discuss end of life matters and important documents. Absent from every polite conversation are three subjects: religion, politics, and money. Most ...

Those of us who live in the western Great Basin Desert, up in the foothills on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, are all too familiar with a wind that is known locally as the Washoe Zephyr.

Emerging technologies will be at the forefront of this summer’s launch of the ten-year, multi-agency effort to address aquatic invasive species (AIS) as laid out in The Lake Tahoe Region Invasive ...

Serrell Smokey is chairman of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, which recently purchased significant portions of ancestral land in the Sierra region. This land return marks one of the largest ...

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