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Your guide to celebrating Earth Day, Arbor Day, and other good-for-the-planet events around Reno

With Earth Day and Arbor Day, April is a time to celebrate the planet. Here's a few things happening around Reno/Tahoe to help you honor the planet.

 

Reno adopts Virginia St. placemaking study, will revisit Center Street bike lane

Reno City Council approves controversial Virginia St. study but also tells city and RTC staff to revisit paused Center Street cycle track.

 

Reno median home price up as spring season starts, ends 3-month downward streak

The median sales price for an existing home is up month-over-month but still down from the same period last year.

 

Lake Tahoe reaches clarity levels not seen since the 1980s

A surge in tiny critters known as zooplankton is contributing to the clarity -- and the lake's Kokanee salmon could be getting fatter on the bountiful food supply.

 

Paid family leave may be coming to state employees in Nevada

AB 376 would provide state employees eight weeks of leave at 50% pay, which could be used after the birth or adoption of a child, to recover from a serious illness or care for a family member with a …

 

Address rent now or homelessness later, lawmakers told

Legislature considering rent stabilization, other proposals to address high costs of housing

 

Images from salvage effort and demolition of the Sinai Mansion

Here are photos from the effort to harvest architectural elements and fixtures from inside the Sinai Mansion and its April 2023 demolition.

 

Demolition of Sinai House in downtown Reno

The century-old Sinai mansion, also known as the Howell House, comes down on Thursday, April 13. The house, on land owned by the Nevada Museum of Art, is being demolished to make room for the museum's $60 million expansion.

 

Watch: Former co-owner talks about Sinai House demolition

Hear from past co-owner Jim Pace about the demolition of the Sinai Mansion in Reno on April 13, 2023.

 

BLM: Wild horse fertility vaccines to be tested at Carson City corral

The Bureau of Land Management has authorized the testing of two fertility vaccines at a Carson City corral to regulate wild horse populations.

 

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