The Washoe County school board recently entertained the idea of cutting the district's gifted and talented program. With Nevada's tax revenues continuing
Nevada's 81st regular legislative session convened in Carson City Monday. Over the next 120 days, lawmakers will craft and debate hundreds of bills and
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Hudson Heimerman: Grandpa, I ve always been curious what you did when you were serving in the Peace Corps after World War Two. When was that, and what exactly did you do in your service?
Michael Schop: Yeah, [it was] 1960 and I came home [at] the end of ‘62. The town I lived in was called La Rochelle. I was a chauffeur for Colonel’s aid to drive him around and go to meetings and take his children to school. So, it was a pretty good job. I got to see a lot. We used to go to Germany because the Colonel that I drove was the head of U.S. forces for NATO in France. So, once a month you had to go to Munich. That was the headquarters for NATO. That s where he went for meetings and I had to drive him. Then my other job was, I would get calls from the different officers that got drunk. I was to pick them up and bring them back so that the French police wouldn t do anything to them.
Health officials say that a majority of Nevadans would need the COVID-19 vaccine for the population to receive herd immunity. That’s when enough people are
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It was a cause for celebration as housing advocates cut the ribbon officially opening Hope Springs.
The community consists of thirty tiny homes that surround a handful of kennels, garden plots and a large, central building where residents will soon be able to cook meals, take a shower and do laundry.
Chris Fegert is with the non-profit Northern Nevada HOPES, the group running the facility.
“We take folks that are literally living on the street, and they go through a pretty intense vetting process, application process, motivational interviewing with a vulnerability index. We really want to do our best to choose the right residents so that this is the right fit because we want them all to succeed,” Fegert explained.