Cold Springs News

Meghan Gibson hasn't seen her husband Sean since April. For months now she kept the details of his temporary return from Kuwait a secret from their two children.

A quick blast of snow blew its way through Reno on Tuesday afternoon just ahead of the evening rush hour, leading to multiple wrecks on icy roads and catching weather forecasters by surprise.

NV Energy customers set a record for natural gas use in the 24 hours that ended Thursday at 7 a.m. The region consumed 156,332 decatherms, almost 156 million cubic feet of natural gas, NV Energy spokesman Karl Walquist said.

The Sparks Police Department has released a photograph of Oscar Eduardo Uribe, 16, of Sun Valley who it believes is a suspect in the Dec.

This past week we've seen some of the most frigid temperatures in this area since December 1998.

Western Nevada had a sprinkling of double-digit below zero temperatures overnight, the National Weather Service reported.

Sparks police have identified a suspect in the Saturday night fatal shooting of a 17-year-old Cold Springs boy that might have been gang-related. Elvin Beltran, 17, was pronounced dead at Renown Regional Medical Center after the shooting during a fight involving about 25 people about 11:30 p.m. after a party at 1709 C Street.

Washoe County Health officials are holding a free clinic Saturday, but you need to get scheduled Friday.

About 3,100 customers in Stead and Cold Springs were without power Friday morning.

The first winter-like storm of the season on Friday shut down westbound Interstate 80, delayed or canceled more than a dozen airport flights, likely caused a fatal plane crash near Susanville, knocked out power to thousands and made travel difficult with slick roads.

An early morning fight between two 18-year-old men led to a shooting that left one hospitalized and one in jail Tuesday morning, according to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office.

Shooting in Cold Springs leaves 1 hospitalized, 1 in jail.An early morning fight between two 18-year-old men led to a shooting that left one hospitalized and one in jail.

" An early morning standoff is over with one person behind bars and another in the hospital The situation started at 1am Tuesday at a home in Cold Springs near Nancy Gomes Elementary School.

Reno, Nevada. October 29, 2009. At their regularly scheduled meeting yesterday, Washoe County Commissioners directed planning staff to make specific revisions to a proposed nuisance ordinance and return on December 8th for a first reading of said ordinance with a second reading and possible adoption on January 12, 2010.

Voters for Sensible Growth are challenging Sparks' annexation of land in the East Truckee River Canyon, six miles beyond the city border.

Game wardens from the Nevada Department of Wildlife are looking for information on two animals found shot and left to waste a couple miles from each other near Cold Springs in the last two weeks.

The Nevada Supreme Court has given new life to a citizen group's challenge of the annexation of 7,000 acres in Cold Springs by the city of Reno.

A power outage Wednesday morning left about 3,000 customers without power in the Cold Springs, Red Rock, and Silver Knolls areas north of Reno.

By now, you should definitely feel the chill in the air left by a cold low pressure center.

Tribune/Debra Reid - A loose billboard flaps in the wind before falling onto Prater Way in Sparks on Tuesday.