A Sparks Citizens Advisory Committee was restructured in September with the aim of making the group more representative and forging a stronger link with the city council.

For a community of people who talk all the time about how much we love Northern Nevada's wide open spaces and how important the miles of sagebrush and sand are to our quality of life, we sure don't take very good care of what's supposed to be so important to us.

Water merger: Commissioners Tuesday approved an agreement with Truckee Meadows Water Authority to add a county member on the authority board as a first step in merging the county water utility with TMWA.

We must not let Ms. Lagomarsino lose her home by eminent domain. Rather, we should hold those responsible for the unchecked growth and poor planning.

Hundreds of students at Shaw Middle School in Spanish Springs are learning to cope with death, many of them for the very first time.

The Washoe County School District has confirmed that an eighth grade student at Shaw Middle School in Spanish Springs died while at school Tuesday morning.

It was a competition, but there was clearly a feeling of camaraderie Saturday at the Sierra Band Crusade championships.

After 10 months of wondering who killed 19-year-old Brianna Denison and fearful he would strike again, Reno police announced Wednesday that they arrested a 27-year-old Spanish Springs man on suspicion of her slaying and the rape and kidnapping of another college student.

Most NV Energy customers in Spanish Springs had their power restored by 10:40 a.m., NV Energy spokesman Karl Walquist said.

Northern Nevada Boy Scout leaders gathered Wednesday at the Aces Ballpark to prepare for next year's 100th anniversary of the national scouting organization.

One of the surprising attractions to The Vineyards -- a gated-neighborhood development that Tanamera Homes & Resort Communities is building in Sparks -- is its unexpected seclusion.

One person died this morning in a fatal crash in Sparks that also knocked out the power for thousands.

Regarding the front page story 'Roadwork Hinges on Senior's Home' [RGJ, Oct. 22]: Is the threat of utilizing the eminent domain law against an elderly woman who has been on the property since 1927 and was kind enough to preserve a historic home be because the powers-that-be used poor planning judgment in the overkill of construction growth in the ...

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Tribune file/Debra Reid - Murder suspect James Biela of Spanish Springs was escorted into a Reno courtroom on Thursday, Dec.