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EPA steps in to extract boat possibly leaking oil in Lake Tahoe Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/25/2021 Video: Sunken boat pulled out of Lake Tahoe Replay Video A submerged boat that was allegedly leaking oil was extracted Tuesday from Lake Tahoe. After local and state agencies struggled for a month to locate the owner of a boat submerged off the shore of Lake Tahoe and enough funding to removal the vessel, the Environmental Protection Agency stepped in to remove the boat after someone reported on Facebook that it was leaking oil. The EPA contracted with High Sierra Marine Inc. for $20,000 to extra...

Reno relief fund helps close aid gap to women-, minority-owned businesses Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/23/2021 Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette Journal © Andy Barron/RGJ Allie Salas, owner of Reno Aspire Fitness, stands in her gym on Feb. 18, 2021. Women and minority business owners continue to struggle amid the pandemic. When Allie Salas realized she was $15,000 behind on her rent for the space used for her gym, Reno Aspire Fitness, she knew she had to make some sacrifices.  Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered a statewide closure on businesses as the pandemic hit in March, and gyms were ...

5 years after beating cancer, UNR grad set to start nursing career at Renown Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/19/2021 Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette Journal © Andy Barron/RGJ Haley Carroll poses in front of the Love sign at Renown where she will start her career as a nurse on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Carroll graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in December. Haley Carroll may be one of the newest hires right out of college at Renown Regional Medical Center, but she’s not new to hospitals. Carroll starts her career as a nurse on Feb. 22 after graduating from the University o...

Fellow conservatives, you've been lied to | Don Dike-Anukam Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/19/2021 Don Dike-Anukam, Reno Gazette Journal © Andy Barron/RGJ Don Dike Anukam poses for a photo on Virginia and First Street in downtown Reno on June 7, 2020. This opinion column was submitted by Don Dike-Anukam, a Northern Nevada college student, regional and local activist, political and news writer. My fellow Nevadans, what I am about to say will likely end my political career — not that I had one. Yet it is necessary to say because it is not just true, it is patently obvious and nee...

Week in COVID-19: Washoe school district seeing more cases after return to hybrid learning Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/10/2021 Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette Journal © Andy Barron/RGJ Students arrive on the first day of school amid the COVID pandemic on Tuesday August 18, 2020. This story is part of the Reno Gazette Journal’s essential COVID-19 coverage and is being provided for free. Please consider subscribing to the RGJ to support our work. Editor's note: This story was updated Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. to provide additional statistics on the increase in cases at the Washoe Coun...