A Sparks man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbing two women in a casino parking garage. Keoin Paris pled guilty to ...

If everything you know about the Biggest Little City (pop: 275K) you learned from a certain “Cops” parody on Comedy Central, ...

Local historian and author Alicia Barber told News 4-Fox 11 the lengthy city plaza saga after the demolition of the Mapes Hotel illustrated some of downtown Reno's challenges. "The large scale of ...

Unlike Las Vegas, which later exploded into a global spectacle, Reno embraced a subtler charm. Casinos sprang up quickly, with landmarks like the Mapes Hotel—America’s first high-rise hotel ...

A major inspiration came from a book they stumbled upon at Grassroots Books in Reno — a treasure trove for used books and hidden gems. Written by Patricia D. Cafferata, the book chronicled the history ...

which reinterprets the demolition of Reno’s historic Mapes Hotel through music and visual abstraction. The project explores how cities change over time, preservation versus demolition ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Thursday marks 25 years since the downtown skyline changed forever when the iconic Mapes Hotel in Reno was imploded, a significant event in the city's history.

Mullen, originally appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 30, 2000, the date of the Mapes Hotel-Casino's implosion. Since its publication, Nevada lost three of its great keepers of local ...

I miss the old Mapes Hotel and Casino. They never checked our IDs back in the ... I miss having less traffic in Reno. There is a lot of traffic that you have to deal with nowadays. Even in the Old ...

As a graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno, Janice Baker was passionate about Nevada ... two-cowboy sign that was previously used to form the "M" of the Mapes Hotel. “This first sign took ...

“Until this year, no listed site had been lost. But the demolition of the historic Mapes Hotel in Reno last January reminded us that we must remain vigilant in our fight to save our nation’s ...