Over the weekend, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office patrol deputies observed a vehicle enter the roadway from a vacant dirt lot off the roundabout at Dandini Boulevard and Spectrum Boulevard without its headlights on. Deputies then noticed a small brush fire burning in the area the vehicle had just exited.

Deputies immediately moved to extinguish the fire. The source of the fire appeared to consist of multiple split wooden logs stacked in a teepee formation within the surrounding sagebrush. Fire personnel were requested to ensure the extinguished fire posed no additional threat.

A short distance away, deputies located the vehicle at a nearby business and made contact with the driver. Following an investigation, deputies arrested 29-year-old Damien Pineda-Contreras in connection with the fire.

During the investigation, deputies located multiple split wooden logs, matches, lighters, charcoal lighter fluid and tumbleweed fire starters inside the front cab of Pineda-Contreras’ vehicle.

Pineda-Contreras was transported to the Washoe County Detention Facility, where he was booked on a felony charge of third-degree arson.

Icecycle Creamery is closing up shop :( they had great and super unique ice cream flavors and and damn good Cuban Sandwich.

Hello! I have a friend who is trying to utilize the United Way & AirB&B assistance program to help offset the cost of the stay. She was denied and is having problems accessing the benefits.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

I wanted to see if I can have a quick flight to Vegas for the weekend. I last few with spirit to Vegas around February and I got bang for my buck but ever since spirit ceased operations it seems like the other airlines wanna take advantage of pricing. I get the distance but for it being an instate flight and with only 1.5 of flight time and having 10+ flights a day and wanna charge us the same price to fly to Texas mad New York. This is ridiculous and very greedy. Do better Reno Tahoe na bother airlines.

Ok; just playing around with local recommendations. I'm on a roadtrip with a couple of highschool buddies and we're chillin at the RV resort down by the Truckee River.

I am looking to order a pizza to the RV tonight and I wanna see who the Reddit zeitgeist would recommend that an out of towner should try if only here for a short time :)

Let's go Reddit!

Check your voter registration, y’all! I just checked mine, and it was cancelled for absolutely no reason. I have never missed an election. I have not moved in nine years. I check my mail, and I have not received any notices from the board of elections.

I am absolutely livid. The news says Washoe County “moved 8,506 registrations to inactive” after a mailed notice was not responded to. I never got one of these.

I just emailed a bunch of colleagues. So far, every one of them have discovered their registrations were also cancelled.

I have emailed the Board of Elections, my state senator, our federal senators (because I know Cortez Masto and Rosen will care), and Amodei, even though he won’t care. We’ll see if they answer.
UPDATE: A friend called them! They are saying they are having “website errors.” Apparently the entire county is FREAKING OUT and flooding their phones.

Hello, my son collected food for the less fortunate for a project at school. Where can I drop it off that is open after school hours?

Driving along sparks blvd this morning and something flew off one of the city of sparks trucks and cracked my windshield. Is this something that the city will take care of or do I just have to eat the cost of a new windshield?

I have a small but steady supply of cans I collect from neighbors. Looking for a non- profit place to donate them. I will drop them off. Thank you in advance!

Reno author, journalist and North Valleys resident gives firsthand account of escaping the fire, backed by facts and compelling visuals.

Are there any coffee shops in Reno or sparks that are open kind of late?

Looking for a place I can get a relatively cheap massage. Don’t want to do one of the casinos they look expensive. I always see those mini mall ones and they look sketchy but was wondering if any of them are actually any good.

Bro I’ve seen so license plates from Texas and Montana. What’s up with that?? I feel like I see more and more plates from different states in town as the days go by. Probably been asked already but I’m curious. Texas from the other Tesla factory out there maybe? Idk yall, am I one of the only people born here kinda sad by the fact almost no one here is actually from here now? Idk why but it makes me sad lmao. I don’t know very many people who was born here like I was.

Slight traffic

I covered the Mapes in a short video a few years ago and wanted to go back and give it a more detailed look.

The new video covers the 1947 opening, what the hotel and Sky Room were like, its connection to The Misfits, the casino's financial problems, and the preservation fight before the 2000 demolition. There's also a section on the employees and how the glamorous version of the hotel wasn't everyone's experience.

It's about 30 minutes, with my narration over historical photos and archival footage.

https://youtu.be/Q1Xz2WJsddk

Did anyone here visit the Mapes, work there, or have family who did? I'd really like to hear their memories.

Honestly just looking to meet other like minded people or a specific place for hookups. Reno after dark and other threads just doesn’t seem like the vibe 😂

Any idea about the cause of the power outage off of McCarran by par and Talus? It says under investigation and no ETA but I wondered if anyone knew anything different

Not the end of the world, a nice excuse to finish (remote) work early I guess. I'm in the 89502 area and it went out suddenly but I don't see any outages or posts yet.

The worst part is that I JUST set the stove/microwave clocks again after the recent storm caused an outage lmao, otherwise I'm sure it'll be back soon. Just seems very random.

Shits always late, even though the drivers are always speeding like it's the Daytona, hard breaking, not waiting for people, especially old people, to sit down, driving past stops... I mean, the list goes on.

So who the hell do I talk to? This shits getting ridiculous.

I've ended up in a situation I never wanted to be in. Homeless. And all I see is you arresting people like myself for just sitting in the shade, or my Hispanic friends who have helped me the most. You arrested me because I had no home and I just tried to get out of the heat. I sat in court and watched you send my Hispanic brothers off to ICE. What world are we living in now? This isn't Godly. You forced me to be at the shelter when I was trying on my own. For what? So that you can congest "easy targets" into a small area and throw them into county jail for sitting in the shade and profit off people's struggles? You call animal control and take away their dogs? I hate you ICE. I hate what is happening. I was very successful before I moved here and I see what's going on. It's bullying and profit. I'm heartbroken and already had nothing. Why can't you just have compassion for the homeless? And to the Deputy that drove by and spat and said the shade wasn't a bus stop. I wish you the worst.

There was a black food truck with a yellow tent in front and a guy sitting down taking orders under it off Holcomb yesterday (Sunday 8/30) by the Radical Cat. I saw people stopping by but didn’t get a chance to check it out myself and couldn’t see the name. Anyone know what it was?

Played last year for the first time. Still in that league but looking for another! I know you can find leagues on Reddit, but prefer local.