Friday, September 4, 2026

There's a $38 million medical campus coming to Kiley Ranch · The infection that can turn deadly by nightfall, and the four-letter phrase that gets you the right care · Nevada will actually pay a family member to be the caregiver, and almost nobody knows it · You don't need the gym-selfie workout, you need 47 percent · Renown says it's now the only dedicated pediatric ER in the region. Here's what that actually means. · Vaccines aren't just a kid thing

There's a plant in Fallon shipping Nevada milk to China · Your delivery order might be coming out of a Pep Boys · Why your grocery app might be showing you a different price than your neighbor · Nevada's drought is squeezing farmers even while cattle prices soar · Reno's restaurant scene isn't dying, it's moving · There's a $40 coupon book in a drawer somewhere, and it expires this month

UNR built a robot that recognizes sheep by their face, and it's solving a real Nevada problem · How your phone actually knows where you are · The casino, the AI, and the 11-hour mistake · The ROI talk, not the hype talk

NV Energy is handing back $63 million right now, and some of it's ours · There's a $3 billion data center campus going up near Sparks, and I wanted to know if the jobs are real · Nevada owes you overtime after 8 hours in a day, not just 40 in a week, and almost nobody knows it · Here's the actual math behind your Social Security check, not the version everybody assumes · Nevada actually runs two different tests for whether you're a real contractor, and they don't agree · Tahoe's ski resorts are hiring for winter right now, and the pay is better than you'd think

The balloon race turns 45, and it only exists because of a gap on a calendar · Dove season opens Monday, and this year it is the whole state · A Tahoe campground where you get your own stretch of beach, and there is still room · A brand new Carson City golf tournament, and a name that is going to confuse everybody · The easiest 10,000 foot mountain you will ever climb, because the road does half of it · Chimney Beach costs twelve dollars now, and I had it wrong

Kaiser and Renown just opened two new front doors in Reno and Sparks · A denial is not a decision, it's an opening offer · Carson City warns: that "your medical records were accessed" call is fake · Exercise snacks: the smallest workout that actually works

The Cantaloupe Festival is this weekend, and they changed one rule · The "safe" wine pick everyone uses is actually backwards · There's a chocolate factory in Sparks bigger than you'd think · Your grandmother's fridge rules were right, and yours are probably too cautious

NV Energy sued a data center company, and your power bill is the whole reason · A chip built in Reno is already running inside Cloudflare's data centers · Your staff might already be pasting your customer list into a free chatbot · The caller ID on your phone is just an honor system

Burning Man is a week out, and nobody's ever actually counted what it's worth to us · Nevada just approved tax breaks for nine companies. Two of them are real jobs, right here in Reno · Reno-area pay runs behind the national number. Here's why you should ask anyway · Turning a hobby into a little money, and the one number to know before you get serious

Paddle into Sand Harbor without fighting for a parking spot · The salmon nobody here fishes for, forty five minutes up the hill · A free park with a ten minute version and a nine mile version · Tomorrow night, a free concert in Carson City

The stalled Reno detox center · Sleep on three different clocks · Care Solace: the free mental-health line most Washoe families don't know exists · BE FAST: the six letters that could save somebody's life

Nevada's 24/7 alcohol laws, the Wild West of last call on purpose · A taco spot is reportedly taking over Old Granite Street's old space · The Nugget Rib Cook-Off is back in two weeks · Where the casino buffet actually came from, and why it isn't a dollar anymore

Carson City banned the smart glasses, and it kicks in today · Lake Tahoe got a little clearer, and the scientists won't even brag about it · Is it cheating to let AI write your reviews? · Two free tools (and a phone call) that beat the fifty-thousand-dollar system

Nevada let insurers carve wildfire out of your policy. Eight months in, nobody's touched it · Reno's empty buildings are actually filling up · The number on your job offer isn't the number in your account · What running a business here actually taught me

The beach at Tahoe that's been closed for three years is back · Cody Grissom, in studio · Cody Grissom, part two · Wildcreek lost half its course to a high school. It just built a new one anyway

The people in this town who made it to a hundred · Your body lives at 4,500 feet · There's a free genetic test and 65,000 Nevadans have taken it · The checkups nobody puts on your calendar

What makes a hidden gem actually good · Gregory Barrett, in studio · Gregory Barrett, part two · The passport's still open, and most of it is up here

Vegas got robot taxis yesterday. We got the Spaghetti Bowl · The drone lands on a robot to charge itself back up · It's not old versus young. It's four employees versus 250 · The cloud is a building out past Sparks

State Farm is handing back five billion dollars and Nevada's in on it · Your property tax is due a week from tomorrow · Your pay stub is a Nevada pay stub and nobody wrote the article for you · Two things half of you already do, and the ceiling nobody mentions

Somebody put 5,722 trout in Lake Tahoe last Thursday · A kayak at Pyramid Lake needs a lot less than you think · Archery season opens Monday, and here's why you can't just go · Nevada's got a brand new state park and it doesn't have a name yet

There's a doctor in a booth at the senior center · Nevada quietly put a leash on hospital bill collectors · The number that decides if you can get off the floor · The free stuff nobody signs up for

Nevada's official state drink comes in a can now · Jake's came back for one more summer · What's that fee at the bottom of your check · Your cake isn't your fault

Four UNR students, one big drone, and DARPA · Those fire cameras on the ridge are ours · The free stuff is embarrassingly good · Why your internet crawls at 8 o'clock

The state is holding a billion dollars and some of it is yours · Thirty bucks gets a Nevada 65-and-up into every state park for a year · His first Reno joint folded in three weeks. Then he built the car museum. · Started in a Reno garage in 2018. Five hundred employees now.

Four ways to play golf around here for under $35, walking · Sleep at 9,300 feet, twenty-five minutes from your driveway · The Spooner Lake trails are closed all week and open on the weekend · Two weeks out: the darkest sky in Northern Nevada, and it's free

Your health plan is becoming Kaiser. Your card still works. · Nobody new can open a hospice in Nevada right now · Name one friend you made after you stopped working · You are the long-term care plan. Nobody told you.

The health inspector emails ahead now. Once a year. · Nevada already paid your server. Then the screen asks you. · Smallest cattle herd in 75 years, and we're a ranching state · Hearts of Gold, and the festival's a month out

They're taking away the phone that works when the power's out · Should a robot answer your business phone · At least 180 cameras are reading your plate, and no law about any of it · The state got hit for 1.3 million dollars. It started with one download.

Four bosses in six years, and they interviewed one person · That car insurance headline is a Las Vegas number · Twelve dollars, and no next raise on the calendar · Fourteen thousand a year for a hundred years of ranch

Sign up tomorrow, hunt this fall: Hunter Ed in Verdi · The Truckee River is fishing well right now, and it runs through town · Davis Creek's campground is closed. The trails aren't. · You don't have to drive to Tahoe to paddle. Sparks Marina's right here.

You think Nevada taxes work like California. They don't. · The call that says you missed jury duty. It's a thief, and it's working. · Worst snow year since the eighties. They say don't worry. · You can be turned into soil now. Would you?

A 60-foot sign and two bridges over your downtown streets · The casinos aren't really casinos anymore · Sixteen years downtown, and Old Granite Street is gone · A record price, and your kid can't buy your house

Will the data centers land on your power bill? · Most 'AI' you're being sold is a chatbot with a markup · You own the tractor. You couldn't fix it. Until now. · AI is coming for these jobs. Here's the honest list.

Who I am and what this hour is · Spain won it. Now about that stadium on Kietzke · They're building a fence at Washoe Lake · Hot August Nights left the Grand Sierra