Reno Gazette-Journal

With the voices of the Billinghurst Middle student choir, the cast of Holiday Ice Spectacular show and a towering Christmas tree Tuesday night, Reno officials opened the Rink on the River. Full Story »

An arts and crafts festival to benefit the Bring Bri Justice Foundation will be Dec. 4-6 at the Bring Bri Justice Center, 5000 Smithridge Drive, A-9, near Toys R Us in Reno. Full Story »

NV Energy is working on a plan that will allow its electricity customers to adjust their usage to up-to-the-minute energy prices and, the thinking goes, trim their monthly bills. Full Story »

One of two Butcher Boy locations in the Reno-Sparks area will close within a short period of time as the result of a claim being dismissed by U.S. Bankruptcy Court, store owner Kenny Jolley said Tuesday. Full Story »

Ski Lake Tahoe, a cooperative marketing group comprised of Tahoe’s seven top ski resorts, predicts a “massive” snow season courtesy of El Nino. That could be optimism, or science or a little of both. Full Story »

State, county and municipal government offices and courts will be closed Thanksgiving Day. Reno, Sparks and Washoe County offices also will be closed Friday. Full Story »

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A clerk said Tuesday it will be next week before a Nevada judge rules whether to dismiss criminal charges accusing state Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki and his top aide of mishandling a $3 billion state college savings program. Full Story »

Painting a bleak outlook for Nevada Republicans in general, ex-GOP Rep. Barbara Vucanovich said Tuesday she's "extremely disappointed" that Sen. John Ensign had an affair and thinks it "is going to be tough" for him to win re-election in 2012. Full Story »

Washoe County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who robbed a Sun Valley store early Monday morning. At around 1:40 a.m., the suspect entered the Bi-Rite market, 5690 Sun Valley Boulevard, and asked the clerk for a pack of cigarettes, spokesperson Tami Cummings said. Full Story »

The Reno Police Department is looking for the man who tried to rob a 77-year-old slot change attendant Nov. 8 in northeast Reno but failed after she refused to give up the money. Full Story »

RENO (AP) - Ex-Nevada congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich says she's "extremely disappointed" that fellow Republican John Ensign had an affair and she thinks it "is going to be tough" for him to win re-election to the Senate in 2012. Full Story »

Four local businesses had their liquor licenses suspended last week after Reno police caught them selling alcohol to minors. Full Story »

The Reno Police Department has released these photographs of a suspect who robbed a slot host at the Scolari’s in southeast Reno on Nov. 14. Full Story »

MONTAGUE, Mich. (WZZM) - A Montague Township woman says she can do anything she puts her mind to. Janie Spring raised 13 children on her own, did farm-work her whole life, and just recently shot her first buck. Full Story »

A Washoe District Court jury on Monday acquitted a 23-year-old man accused of causing the deaths of two men and serious injuries to another in 2007 in Sparks. Full Story »

BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming. Full Story »

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — An El Dorado County judge ruled Tuesday that a 15-year-old girl can be tried as an adult in the slaying of her mother. Full Story »

Peruse your choices at a school cafeteria — cheeseburger, pizza, baked fries — and you may wonder if you’ve stepped into a fast food restaurant. What’s for lunch in the Washoe County School District? Full Story »

A 74-year-old Reno man was arrested on charges he drove drunk and fled the scene of a traffic accident, reported the Nevada Highway Patrol. Full Story »

LONDON (AP) — Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines after six reports of serious allergic reactions among recipients, but there are no similar reports from other countries, pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday. Full Story »

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge will consider whether to dismiss criminal charges accusing Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki and a top aide of mishandling a $3 billion state college savings program. Full Story »

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The Sierra Safari Zoo completed its 2009 season and now asks the community to donate to its Winter Food Drive. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission conceded Tuesday the agency "hasn't been acting as quickly as it should" on crib safety problems. Full Story »

SUTTER COUNTY, Calif. - An autopsy was scheduled for later Monday on the discovery of a human limb found Sunday at so-called "Beer Can Beach" in Sutter County. Full Story »