History

The Great Western Steam Up attracted a reunion of V&T locomotives that became a common everyday fixture during the railroad’s golden years.

Bob Carroll was an icon in news broadcasting for more than 60 years: He was Mr. Reno from the time he began delivering the news on KOLO-TV in 1961 to his last show on KUNR. 

Downtown Reno’s St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, affirming its historic and cultural significance within the community.

Like its two famous movies, TOPGUN instruction is real … teaching pilots that warfighting becomes a matter of life and death in the skies above sea or land.

Nevada Department of Transportation this month kicked off an effort to document the history of Latino communities by identifying historically significant places, organizations and people in Nevada.

A rare World War II era B-29 Superfortress is scheduled to visit Minden-Tahoe Airport this month.

War Comes Home: The Legacy is part of Cal Humanities’ current “War Comes Home” initiative, a thematic program designed to promote greater understanding of veterans and explore how war shapes a community. 

The campus of Las Vegas High School was recently listed by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places.

Easter is a celebration of spring and new life. Eggs and flowers are rather obvious symbols of female fertility, but in European traditions, the bunny, with its amazing reproduction potential, is not far behind.

A new resource highlighting the “herstory” of Nevada was released this week by the Nevada Historic Preservation Office.