Silver State of Mind

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

  1. 9:04Trailhead Report

    Nevada's Newest State Park Used to Be Called Break-A-Heart Ranch

    Nevada's newest state park, a 1,600-acre stretch of the Carson River near Dayton, just got its official name this week. In the 1940s it was a divorce ranch. In the 1970s, it tested the trucks that became the Humvee.

  2. 9:18Smart Start

    The Town That Flooded in 2008 Just Nearly Ran Dry in 2026

    Fernley declared a water-supply emergency this week after a computer failure knocked out its treatment plant, and the backup system failed at the exact same moment. The city says it wasn't a cyberattack. It was just a network glitch with nowhere to fall back to.

  3. 9:32Trailhead Report

    The World's Largest Trout Went Extinct. A Tribe an Hour From Reno Brought It Back.

    The giant Lahontan cutthroat trout that once made Pyramid Lake famous went extinct in 1940. It's back today only because of a tribally-run hatchery system most Reno-area anglers have never heard of.

  4. 9:46Trailhead Report

    Nevada's First Shipwreck on the National Register Sits 400 Feet Down at Tahoe, By Mistake

    In 1940, a Tahoe lumber baron's son tried to sink his family's old steamship in shallow water off Glenbrook so glass-bottom boats could visit it forever. He misjudged the slope. She's been sitting 400 feet down ever since, as Nevada's first shipwreck ever listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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