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Friday Morning Constitutional: Nevada Lawmakers Balk at A's Dollar Ask

Nevada lawmakers only want to give the A's half of the funding they are seeking for their new Vegas stadium; that new toll has been approved for Highway 37 in Sonoma County; and a reminder of which streets are closing for Bay to Breakers.

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Nevada County May Add an ‘Impact Fee’ Onto Burning Man Ticket Prices, To Keep Their Roads Maintained

Washoe County commissioners are in discussions to add an extra fee onto Burning Man tickets to maintain a stretch of road that 70,000 Burners tromp across every Labor Day weekend.

Harrowing Search For Missing Couple in Nevada Ends With Husband Found Dead, Wife Surviving

After a week-long search for a missing couple merely found an empty RV in Nevada, the couple was located, but 72-year-old Ronnie Barker was already dead.

Berkeley Man Charged With Attempted Murder Following Nevada Freeway Shooting, Deadly Crash

A 51-year-old Berkeley man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he was injured in a horrific freeway crash that killed the driver of the car — which followed a freeway shooting in which the injured man is the only suspect.

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As ‘Storm Area 51’ Prank Looms, Officials Fret While Organizers Feud With Rival Events

The Storm Area 51 event could itself be stormed out by extreme Nevada weather, and the original organizers have chickened out and moved their event to Las Vegas.

Nevada Braces For Invasion of Alien Enthusiasts As ‘Storm Area 51’ Event Approaches

Burning Man may not be the hippest upcoming Nevada event, as prank-turned-actual-event “Storm Area 51” sets its phasers to beam tens of thousands of alien conspiracy freaks toward the remote Air Force base.

Study Shows Spike In California Gun-Related Violence Following Nevada Gun Shows

A new UC Berkeley study has shown that gun violence in certain areas of California spike immediately following the opening of a gun show in Nevada. For about two weeks following a Nevada

Northern California, Nevada Rocked By Series Of Earthquakes Wednesday

Residents of both California and Nevada were awakened early Wednesday by a series of 5.5-5.7 magnitude earthquakes that struck in a remote area near Lake Tahoe. The US Geological Survey reports

Burners Beware: Traffic Cops In Central Nevada Allegedly Doling Out Tickets For Fun Of It

This just in via social media and one of my many friends and acquaintances who are playa-bound already: Burners en route to Black Rock City were allegedly being entrapped by cops in tiny

Burning Man Just Bought A 3,800-Acre Chunk Of Desert To Establish A Year-Round Community

The non-profit behind Burning Man just purchased a $6.5 million, 3,800-acre piece of land 21 miles north of Gerlach, Nevada. Located near the site of the annual temporary Black Rock City,

Two Earthquakes Strike Area Of Burning Man Site In Three Days

In three days, the "playa," a remote portion of the Nevada desert that becomes a makeshift city of 70,000 during the annual Burning Man festival, has experienced two earthquakes. The AP reported

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Video: Nevada Great Dane Vies For Guinness Record For World's Tallest Dog

The owners of a two-year-old Great Dane from Sparks, Nevada are attempting to get their enormous dog into the Guinness Book of World Records. Yes, Great Danes are always enormous, horse-like pets, but

Nevada To Cough Up $400K For Dumping Its Mentally Ill Patients On Us

A case that was brought back in 2013 by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, complaining that a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital had systematically put mentally ill people on Greyhound busses to Los Angeles and

Adult Couple and Four Children Found Alive In Nevada Wilderness [Update]

Two adults who were traveling with four children between the ages of 3 and 10, missing since Sunday in remote Pershing County, Nevada, have been found alive. The group went out to "play

San Francisco Sues Nevada For Being A Horrible Neighbor

After news broke earlier this year that a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas was loading mental patients on Greyhound buses and shipping them out of the state to San Francisco and L.A.

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Burning Man 2013 'Man' Burns Bright

The titular man at Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert went up in a glorious blaze Saturday. According to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, more than 61,000 people attended

S.F. Investigating Nevada Hospital For 'Dumping' Mental Patients

Prerequisite lede: by differing standards, there are lots of mental cases in S.F. But San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Nevada health officials

Google's Robot Car Passes Driver's License Test In Nevada

Nevada, America's one stop shop for all sorts of bad ideas, has issued a license to an autonomous vehicle that is most definitely not a human being. One of Google's driverless Priuses that

Just How Big Was That Lake Tahoe Meteor?

Regarding that meteor that may or may not have struck the Earth near Lake Tahoe this past weekend, NASA now has a better estimate of just how big that flying chunk of colorful

Meteor Reportedly Crashes To Earth Near Lake Tahoe, Fails To Obliterate All Of Humanity

Around 8 a.m. Sunday morning, reports of a loud explosion and a fireball streaking through sky over the California/Nevada border had local law enforcement agencies, astronomers and doomsday soothsayers alike all

6.0 Nevada Earthquake Reminds Bay Area To Get Ready

Oh dear. A hefty-sized earthquake hit northeastern Nevada this morning. You know what that means, don't you? Time to sound the alarm for everyone in the Bay Area to get prepared. Not sure

Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's Killers Sentenced to Camp

The three boys who took part in the shooting death of Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan in Washington Park in Alameda last Halloween, and then reportedly boasted about it, were sentenced in juvenile court today.

SFist Video: <i>Hillary's Inner Tracy Flick</i> from Slate Video

If you like that movie from Reese Witherspoon called Election, as many people do, you might also like this funny 90-second video from Slate.com. And speaking of Clinton video, check out local

Bernal Heights Fire Leaves Two Homeless

A two-alarm fire at Bernal Heights home caused the displacement of two elderly folks. The blaze happened at 266 Nevada Street around 6:30 p.m. this evening. According to the Gate, "[f]

Tony Hall's Old Red Garter

Maybe Tony Hall needs to put a yellow sticky on his campaign credit card and label it "FOR CAMPAIGN USE ONLY" -- the SF Ethics Commission has decided to proceed on charges against