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A masked gunman who shot two women during a horrific home invasion and robbed six Canterbury pubs and bars at gunpoint, making off with $115,000 during a...

Operation Safer Streets, a multi-agency collaborative effort to perform personal contacts on high risk offenders under the supervision of the Division of Parole and Probation, was conducted in the Carson City, Douglas, Washoe and Lyon County areas.

UPDATE 5:35PM: The Tahoe Douglas Bomb Squad has removed what turned out to be a plastic baggie that contained 5 to 6 blasting caps, said Carson City Sheriffs Office Sgt. Brian Mays. The explosives were brought to the parking lot area of College Parkway and Goni by a person who found them. Law enforcement was notified.

Salvation Army regional headquarters has announced that Captains Mark and Leslie Cyr of The Salvation Army serving Carson City and Douglas County have been appointed to the Pueblo, Colo., Salvation Army.

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 an additional death due to COVID-19 in the Quad-County region, bringing the total number of COVID-19 deaths to five. The individual was a female Lyon County resident in her 70’s with underlying health conditions.

From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Stranger Things,’ the stunning Second Empire home style plays a sinister on-screen role. Does it deserve it?

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in a shoplifting theft and an incident of destruction of property that occurred on Oct. 12, 2016 at Walmart at 3770 US Highway 395, in south Carson City.

Douglas County Emergency Management is currently working on managing the current flooding in the Johnson Lane area. Several road closures have occurred in this area; Johnson Lane at US Hwy 395, East Valley Road at Buckeye Road, Stephanie and Vicky and East Valley Road at Eldon Lane.

UPDATE: Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dave Gibson said the vehicle involved in Wednesday mornings fatal crash on Highway 50 in the westbound lane near Glenbrook was a silver GMC Yukon. As of noon, the Nevada Department of Transportation was assisting with traffic to allow travel in both directions. Traffic is moving slowly in both directions.

Students across the country, including those in Carson City, walked out of class Wednesday, marking one month since a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.