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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

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  1. 9:04The Trailhead Report

    The East Shore's Construction Season Just Wrapped, and Parking Will Never Be the Same

    Lake Tahoe's East Shore just finished its biggest construction season yet: new parking, a new transit stop, and a paid-parking gate at a beach that used to be free. Here's what actually got built, and what's still coming.

  2. 9:17The Smart Start

    Why Sparks Exists: A Railroad Picked Up a Town and Moved It

    Sparks isn't a suburb that grew up next to Reno by accident. It exists because a railroad company moved an entire town there on purpose, in the summer of 1904, houses and all. Here's why, and what's left of it.

  3. 9:30The Smart Start

    What It Actually Takes to Dig Up Downtown Reno

    In 1995, a dig near Virginia and 5th hit a decades-old gas line and hurt five people. That's a big part of why Nevada law now makes every dig downtown call 811 first. Here's what's actually under Reno's main street, and what it took to rebuild it.

  4. 9:43The Smart Start

    The Quiet Agency That's Kept the Truckee From Flooding Reno Again

    Everybody knows Reno flooded badly in 1997. Almost nobody can name the agency that's spent most of the time since building the levees and floodwalls that have kept it from happening again, and it's dedicating a new bridge this very week.

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