The Hit Farm

By David McGrath Schwartz (contact) The state's Foreclosure Mediation Program is under fire from different angles. A Reno judge is deciding one lender's claims that it violates the separation of powers. While Wells Fargo is challenging that same Reno By David McGrath Schwartz (contact) The state's Foreclosure Mediation Program is under fire from different angles. [...]

After three hours of predawn firefighting with his garden hose Friday, 60-year-old Reno business owner Michael Daane was beat up. His eyes were bloodshot from ash whipping into his face, he smelled like smoke, and he hadn't been able to shower. Police in Reno went house to house in the middle of the night, pounding [...]

Thousands of northern Nevadans fled their homes in the dark of night through roads cloaked with heavy smoke and rollicking orange flames as a massive and sudden wildfire consumed the Sierra Nevada foothills and spread Fire surround houses in the Manzanita development of Reno, Nev. Fri, November. Eighteen, 2011. Nv firefighters are combating a wind-whipped [...]