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Student poster contest raises awareness for home radon testing

Friday, September 18, 2020 1:00 AM

Nevada students are encouraged to exhibit their artistic skills to promote radon awareness by entering the Nevada Radon Poster Contest, with all entries due by Oct. 31.
The contest is sponsored by University of Nevada, Reno Extension’s Nevada Radon Education Program and the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health.
UNR to decontaminate building

Friday, September 18, 2020 1:00 AM

The University of Nevada, Reno has secured $12 million in federal money it will use to start decontaminating a campus building that was once used to test radium.
The school's Facilities Services Building has been vacated and the 30 employees working there have been relocated since low levels of radiation were detected in 2016.
Outdoor cooking gear

Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00 AM

Any good western movie has a scene where a cowboy is cooking on an open fire with their pot hanging over the flames. While cooking over a flame is a viable way to prepare food, it is usually the coals that are more desirable and useful for cooking. Dutch oven cooking is an easy way to cook delicious food and fill stomachs that are hungry from a day outdoors.
Trump campaign moves to narrow scope of lawsuit challenging Nevada’s expanded mail-in vote system

Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00 AM

President Donald Trump’s campaign is narrowing its focus in a lawsuit against Nevada’s expanded use of mail-in ballots for the 2020 general election, now specifically challenging a provision allowing ballots received up to three days after the election to be counted if their postmark is unclear.
In a motion for summary judgment, attorneys for the president’s re-election campaign narrowed their legal challenge against AB4, the law approved during the late summer special session of the Legislature.
With opioid-related overdoses on the rise, health care providers try preparing everyday Nevadans to respond to a crisis

Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00 AM

Lab coat and webcam on, Atrio Ricarte pushes through his PowerPoint presentation over Webex.
Although the setup on the web conferencing app is reminiscent of a now all-too-familiar online class or working-from-home videoconference, the content the Las Vegas based registered nurse is sharing may just save a life.
School board, superintendent set goals for upcoming year

Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00 AM

No school board in the country has faced the kinds of issues that all districts will be facing during the upcoming school year. The impacts of COVID-19 have turned the process of education upside down and planning for the future and how to meet the uncertainty was the topic at the recent Humboldt County School Board of Trustee meeting. Members of the board and district superintendent Dr. Dave Jensen discussed what they’d like to accomplish for the 2020-2021 school year.
In ruling critical of state’s oversight, judge says even smallest owners of marijuana companies should have been background checked

Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00 AM

A Las Vegas judge has ruled that marijuana license winners that have not had background checks on all of their part-owners — even ones with small shares — cannot use the license to open a dispensary unless they correct the issue.
District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez issued a permanent injunction on Thursday, bringing a level of closure to many major issues in a drawn-out legal case so large it’s sometimes called “World War Weed.”
Ex-Olympic veterinarian in Lake Tahoe area guilty of tax evasion

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:00 AM

A Lake Tahoe-area veterinarian and former professor at the University of California, Davis who oversaw treatment of horses at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing has pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento says 63-year-old Jack Ray Snyder of Truckee, California admitted he under-reported nearly $350,000 in income from 2011-14. More than $212,000 of that was due for the 2011 tax year.
‘Bonanza’ ranch at Tahoe sold for record $38 million

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:00 AM

In early August, history, classic television and a whole lot of beach mingled to create a milestone in Lake Tahoe real estate.
That's when a 31-acre estate in Zephyr Cove on the lake's east shore — once part of the vast holdings of the Bourne family — sold for $38 million.
On ``Bonanza,'' the long-running TV Western, the Cartwrights galloped across the property on horseback in the opening credits. Unseen in those credits: a private sandy beach stretching nearly 400 feet.
All Humboldt County residents encouraged to participate in drive-thru flu shot clinic

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:00 AM

This may be the most important year yet to get a flu vaccine.
That’s according to officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who say it’s highly likely that flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID-19 will both be spreading this fall and winter.
While getting a flu vaccine will not protect against COVID-19, the flu vaccine is known to reduce the risk of flu illness, hospitalization and death. Plus it will help conserve potentially scarce healthcare resources.

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