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Sales of existing homes in Washoe County rose 44 percent in September over the same month last year. That's according to a new report by the Reno-Sparks Association of Realtors . The association says 505 existing single-family dwellings sold in September,...
Tags: Washoe County, Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno-Sparks Association of Realtors, Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors
Washoe County commissioners approved a federal grant of $401,000 to install the county's first solar-power units: solar photovoltiac systems for the administrative complex and the Northwest Library. Each of the two units will produce 30 kilowatts of...
Tags: Nevada Rock Art Foundation, Nevada Department of Transportation, Washoe County, Sparks
Steamboat Springs Routt County’s unemployment rate decreased in August, to 6 percent from 6.9 percent in July. But the rate is up from August 2008, when the county’s unemployment stood at 3.2 percent. The numbers released this morning aren’t adjusted...
Tags: Nevada, Washoe County, Reno
Some area schools have already informed parents that they will not air the president’s speech, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Others are leaving it up to individual schools and teachers. “He will challenge students to work hard, set education goals,...
Tags: Barack Obama, president obama, Washoe County, schools district
A Reno Planning Commission meeting Wednesday will address a request for a permit to build a large golf ball and golf tee-shaped structure at Washoe Golf Course. Verizon Wireless is seeking the permit to install a 70-foot-tall pole in the shape of a brown...
Tags: Reno Gazette-Journal, Washoe County, Nevada, median price
The Mesa County Health Department reported Monday that a 5-year-old child was hospitalized with the H1N1 influenza virus — or swine flu — with little more than a week before school begins for most area children. The Mesa County child, whose name and condition...
Tags: swine flu, Mesa County Health Department, Washoe County, Washoe District Health Department, Kansas
The inmates had been in isolation since July 28, when one of their former housing mates was transported to San Quentin State Prison following sentencing and displayed flu-like symptoms, officials said. Prison officials notified Solano jail officials that...
Tags: Washoe County, jail inmates, swine flu, Sierra Nevada Job Corps, Washoe District Health Department
Let's see what he can do, 2) Business as usual, just a different name on the door, or 3) Watch out, he's kickin' #!@ and takin' names! I wonder what your hopes are for the future education of the kids in Washoe County. Should the fact that we have a...
Tags: county manager, Washoe County
Palm Beach County has had a second Swine flu death after a 42-year-old man succumbed to the disease, health officials said today. The county has had a total of 247 cases of the H1N1 virus , with 49 confirmed in the last week alone, said Tim O'Connor,...
Tags: swine flu, Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Torres Strait Islands, broadcasting company, Washoe County, confirmed cases
Washoe County Commissioner Bonnie Weber has used the Internet to announce she will seek a third term from District 5. The Republican sent a message to friends via the Facebook social networking Web site...She has been chairman or vice chairman of the...
Tags: Northern Nevada Medical Center, Nevada Association of Counties, Washoe County