Yearly Archives: 2009

News release from NRCSFive pioneering families are being inducted into the Nevada Centennial Ranch and Farm Awards Program. This year’s award recipients are...

Information from Renovationssf.orgThe Reno-in-2011 bid won the right to run the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention in voting conducted by Anticipation, the 2009 World...

Monthly Movie Night at the National Automobile Museum, the Harrah Collection, in downtown Reno features the James Bond action adventure Die Another Day. See the movie and the spectacular car featured in the movie in a special exhibit.

The Truckee River Flood Project is ready to become a stand-alone operation and collect fees to help fund construction projects, director Naomi Duerr said...

Submitted news releaseThe Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners (Commission) will set season dates and bag limits for migratory waterfowl, common snipe, coots and moorhens...

From the current issue of Forbes Magazine comes a story about chemists at Procter & Gamble (P&G). Back in 1996, they came up with a substance they called olestra. The stuff wouldn't stick to anything, including human intestinal tracts. It was supposed to be a calorie-free fat; a dieter's dream come true. Sales projections for olestra were $1 Billion a year.

Cooperative farming and increased demand for locally grown food have sparked the opening of the new Grower Market at Lattin Farms in Fallon. The public is invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon on Thursday, August 13.

The Great Basin is a high elevation, arid to semi-arid region with annual precipitation ranging from five inches in the most arid, lower-elevation locations...

Jeff Moser of Bike Carson posted these stunning images of his family's camping trip to Washoe Lake -- on bikes.Visit his photostream here.

Way back during the Bush Administration, when bailouts were measured in mere billions of dollars, many writers in the economic field warned of the...