Washoe County News

Fifteen of the Washoe County School District's most outstanding and inspiring graduates are the focus of this year's "2013 Countdown to Graduation" campaign, which launches today and runs through June 7. The campaign features a new student profile posted each weekday for three weeks on the WCSD website.

The Washoe County Sheriff's Office Citizen Corps is offering a free emergency preparedness and response training academy beginning June 6. The Community Emergency Response Team Academy provides residents with the information they need to help save lives and reduce trauma in the event of an emergency.

Salary data for more than 132,000 government employees statewide, for the 2012 calendar year, will be released on Wednesday, May 2013 at TransparentNevada.com , a Nevada Policy Research Institute website that makes government-spending data easily accessible to taxpayers.

With two weeks remaining in the Legislature, the Washoe County delegation of state lawmakers is not showing a unified front on the Washoe school tax bill.

The Washoe County budget for the next fiscal year was unanimously approved by the Board of County Commissioners yesterday during their special Board meeting.

The Board of the Governor's Office of Economic Development last Thursday approved tax abatements for nine companies, creating nearly 330 jobs initially and increasing capital investment in Nevada by an additional $200 million.

"For that child to say this is all that he's got and to fight for it and then people come and take it from him, its horrible," says J.R. Tolentino, a Las Vegas resident.

County officials said it was the first time since 2007 the county's budget did not feature wage and benefits cuts for employees, or service reductions.

County officials said it was the first time since 2007 the county's budget did not feature wage and benefits for employees or service reductions.

Democrats may have fallen short of crafting a comprehensive tax reform plan to address Nevada's wobbly revenue structure, but that doesn't mean there aren't a bevy of bills to raise taxes floating around the Legislature this year.

Personal safety should always be a priority, but in light of the recent violent crimes in our area many are re-thinking the steps they should take to keep their families and homes safe as well.

As the Legislature rushes to close its business in the final two weeks of its session, lawmakers and Gov.

The superintendent of Washoe County Schools said the bill to fund school repairs in the county is " very much alive and very active." The assembly bill has yet to come up for a vote in the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.

Nevada's STAR bond law is getting another makeover, this time from a bill that would potentially prohibit any future STAR bond-backed projects from pledging sales taxes meant for school districts.

Hendricks, like many of the neighbors who call rural Golden Valley home, live on independnet wells for water.

Animal Lovers are needed to help raise $100,000 for homeless pets at Nevada Humane Society's Walk for Animals, this Saturday, May 18, at Sparks Marina.

The Washoe County Health District Vector-borne Disease Control Program's first aerial mosquito larvicide treatment for the Truckee Meadows area will take place on May 15th in Wingfield Springs, Bella Vista and Damonte Ranch.

Deputies say 84-year-old Robert Pape and his wife, Dorothy Pape, also 84, died inside their Jessica Lane home.

This week the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending the blood alcohol content level for a DUI be lowered from .08 to .05, so News 4 talked to local law enforcement and alcohol counselors to see if they think it would lower the number of people who drive drunk in northern Nevada.

On one hand, Angie Wilson said she's looking forward to when the health care overhaul takes full effect in 2014 - it'll allow the northern Nevada tribal health clinic she directs to maximize its limited resources.