Storey County residents are encouraged to prepare for the upcoming 2026 General Election by reviewing important election dates, voting options and voter registration information. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Voters who prefer to cast their ballot before Election Day may participate in early voting from Oct. 17–30.
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Virginia City, being a place where the mountains have been examined, prospected, blasted, tunneled, drilled, staked, claimed, disputed, and otherwise meddled with for more than a century and a half, was naturally alarmed when somebody noticed a drone flying about the neighborhood on Saturday. There are few things more suspicious
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Daily update via Southwest Area Incident Management Team Caleb Finch, Team 1, Incident Commander Acres: Bug 93,733 acres / Stallion 40,691 acres Start Dates: Bug: 8/8/26 Stallion: 8/10/26 Containment: Bug 87% / Stallion 85% Causes: Bug: Human / Stallion: Human. Total Personnel: Bug 541/ Stallion 27 Fuels:
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Events are subject to change; please verify details with event hosts. Send your community events to advertising@thecomstockchronicle.com for posting. DAYTON Aug 22: Green Waste Collection Day (71 Enterprise Way), 10am - 3pm Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Sep 19-20: Dayton Valley Days Show n' Shine (9/19)
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On Saturday, Aug. 15, the historic Donovan Mill welcomed the largest single tour group since reopening its doors. More than 110 members of E Clampus Vitus, representing several California chapters and led primarily by Chapter 7-11 Pair "O" Dice, joined volunteers from the Comstock Foundation for History
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Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, Nev. —Storey County is notifying motorists of upcoming repair work at the Union Pacific Railroad crossing on Waltham Way near Wild Horse Canyon Drive. The project is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 20, beginning at 5:30 a.m., and will result in temporary traffic impacts throughout
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For the first time in five months in Australia, Mark King had money in his pocket and nowhere he had to be. The cattle season was over. After the final roundup, one of the family drove Mark back to Perth. They had treated the 13-year-old American warmly, and
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Virginia City, NV — The Historic Fourth Ward School Museum & Archive invites the community to join an evening of celebration, reflection, and music on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of Nevada's most treasured landmarks and the nation's only surviving four-story
I’ll never forget that 1988 call from Carol Piper Marshall, great granddaughter of John Piper, who gave us Piper’s Opera House… “McAvoy, I understand you’re portraying Mark Twain in the schools.” “Yes, Carol, I’m getting to see ten schools a week and loving it.” “Well, how
There are few things more democratic than a Nevada highway at five o’clock in the morning. Rich man, poor man, sober man, intoxicated man—all are permitted to occupy the same strip of pavement, provided they can persuade their automobiles to remain on their own side of it. Geiger
via Alejandro Diaz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency In 1859, miners discovered rich deposits of gold and silver known as the Comstock Lode in and around the areas of Carson City, Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Dayton, Nevada. To extract these metals, they used toxic mercury at 236
Every summer, the Comstock produces a fresh crop of reminders that the Almighty possesses a curious sense of humor. The sagebrush bakes, the jackrabbits conduct their affairs before breakfast, and the tarantula hawk takes to the air dressed as though it had borrowed its wardrobe from royalty and its disposition
Storey County commissioners approved an agreement adding a second School Resource Officer to the county school district, accepted a $10.9 million bid for construction of TRI-Center Fire Station 75 and directed staff to develop policies for the county's license plate reader cameras during their Aug. 4
Virginia Truckee Railroad Celebrates Heritage Days
Storey County residents are invited to connect with local law enforcement and their neighbors during the return of Sheriff’s Night Out events in Lockwood and Virginia City. The Storey County Sheriff’s Office will host the free community events, which will include a barbecue dinner, information about local resources
Every once in a while, you attend a historical program that is good. You learn something, you enjoy yourself, you thank the speaker and you head home. And then there are the programs where you walk away thinking, WOW… I want more! That was Doug Duvall's performance at
Events are subject to change; please verify details with event hosts. Send your community events to advertising@thecomstockchronicle.com for posting. DAYTON Aug 22: Green Waste Collection Day (71 Enterprise Way), 10am - 3pm Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Dayton Valley Days (Sept. 19-20) registration for Sponsors, Vendors, Food Trucks,
After months of improvements and careful growing time, the Dayton Valley Dog Park's All Breed Area officially reopened to four-legged visitors on Saturday, Aug. 8. To celebrate the occasion, local dog owners and their furry companions gathered to enjoy the freshly renovated space while What's
On the Fourth of July, Zach Maley and his wife, Katie Emick, looked out across a lawn full of laughing guests and neighbors after 14 hours behind the grill and knew the vision for the Silverland Inn was working. Hundreds of people, hotel guests, and Virginia City locals alike, filled