Ormat Techologies has launched an expansion project at its Steamboat Hills geothermal plant in Reno — an expansion that will reduce the plant’s visibility on the hillside just south of The Summit Sierra shopping center. [More.]
It’s harder to find an apartment in Reno and Sparks these days, and rents are beginning to climb again. [More.]
A large residential development proposed on the north side of Interstate 80 just east of Verdi is drawing questions from Somersett residents who don’t like possible construction in an area currently designated as open space. [More.]
The most-expensive homes on the market are selling more quickly as the economy builds steam in Reno and Sparks. [More.]
The region’s unemployment rate ticked upward in the past year — standing at 3.4 percent in June, compared with 3 percent a year earlier. [More.]
Located at the busy corner of South McCarran Boulevard and South Virginia Street, the project known as SkyPointe Reno is projected to include offices, stores and restaurants and bars. [More.]
Conscious Container has successfully developed systems to collect empty craft beer bottles from consumers. [More.]
Leaders of the University of Nevada, Reno, are trying to find ways to keep an advanced-manufacturing research initiative alive even though the State Legislature didn’t approve the funds that were expected to be its cornerstone. [More.]
Apartment renters in the Reno-Sparks region will take cold comfort from the knowledge that other cities are seeing even more rapid rent increases. [More.]
University faculty and staff in Nevada will be getting the full 3 percent raise promised to them on July 1 even though the State Legislature didn’t allocate enough money to pay for the entire amount of the pay increase. [More.]
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