A tornado ripped through the Nevada town of Hawthorne on Friday afternoon, damaging homes and businesses, causing scattered power outages and temporarily shutting down a highway, authorities said. No injuries were reported. The 3:30 p.m. tornado touched down east of …
Nevada seismologists and emergency managers say they’re monitoring an earthquake swarm in Carson City that has the potential to result in a major temblor. But officials from the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, stress they can’t …
A Nevada Sheriff says he suspects foul play in the disappearance of the state’s chief insurance examiner after evidence of a bloody, violent struggle was uncovered in his apartment. Carson City Sheriff’s deputies were called to the apartment Thursday after …
Pilots offered praise for a new course designed to keep them farther away from spectators at the Reno National Championship Air Races after last year’s accident that killed 11 people. Pilots who flew the course for the first time during …
Fire investigators have confirmed arcing power lines caused the wind-blown blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Reno in November. The brush fire caused about $7.6 million in property damage and more than $1.5 million in firefighting costs, according to …
Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nev., on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes. Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the western edge of the …
Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nevada, on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes. Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the western edge of the …
Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada’s largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge …
A ruptured levee sent a frigid “wall of water” from a rain-swollen canal into this high desert town Saturday, Jan. 5, flooding hundreds of homes and forcing the rescue of more than a dozen people by helicopter and boat. To …
