Greetings! On Sept. 14, we published a Reno News & Review on newsprint for the first time in 9 1/2 months, with 25,000 copies of our Best of Northern Nevada issue hitting the streets.
If you have not been following what has been happening at RenoNR.com, we have a lot of updates for you.
First and foremost: Consider this a reminder that even though we’re not in print every month, we’re still doing the local journalism that we’ve always been doing. Bob Grimm reviews movies each week; Jessica Santina is still reviewing plays and reporting on the local arts scene; Michael Moberly is still writing about drinks each month; and so on.
Under the wonderful stewardship of managing editor Kris Vagner, you’ll still find Western Lit book pieces, guest commentaries, Matt Westfield’s On Nevada Business column, our 15 Minutes interviews, music features, our team’s excellent visual arts coverage, and so on. Kelley Lang is still previewing events, as she has for most of the last three decades. And, yes, we’re still producing longform news stories, like Frank X. Mullen’s examination of local police-drone programs.
We’ve even added some new features, such as Mark Earnest’s every-other-week Music Notes column, with news and updates from the local music scene. Every Monday, I write our From the Archives newsletter, which looks back at interesting coverage from the RN&R’s nearly 33 years of archives, and places it in the context of today.
The only difference between now and the RN&R of 9 1/2 months ago is that we’re not printing most of this news; instead, it’s online at RenoNR.com, and/or arriving in email inboxes.
That said, I know a lot of you still prefer to read news in print—and for that reason, we launched our three-times-per-year glossy magazine earlier this year. In the spring (March), summer (June) and winter (December), we’re compiling volumes of fantastic, still-timely stories published at RenoNR.com over the previous three months, and offering the magazines for $9.99, or $35.99 for a year-long mail subscription of four issues (including our newsprint Best of Northern Nevada issue). You can subscribe here! You can purchase the most recent issue there, too, or pick one up at Recycled Records.
Of course, all of this news is still available for free at RenoNR.com, and the PDFs of these print editions are available for free download. We’re even giving copies of each glossy-magazine quarterly to the Washoe County Library system for people to enjoy at the various branches.
We also have some new things in the works.
In early November, we’ll be publishing our first Annual Guide, both in print and online. It will be a publication for both newcomers and locals who want to get to know Reno area better! The Annual Guide will include must-knows about fire preparedness, primers on local arts and music venues, a piece on how locals do casinos, and all sorts of other inside knowledge about the Reno-Sparks-Carson-Tahoe area. Watch RenoNR.com for details.
Finally, we’re working on a series of stories looking at the aftermath of the Bug, Fred Mountain, Stallion and Hawk fires.
Those of us in Northern Nevada have always known wildfires were a danger; heck, my mom has been evacuated from her home in Steamboat at least three times over the years. But these recent fires—especially in the context of what happened in Los Angeles in January 2025—showed that the threat is far bigger than most of us previously imagined.
There are a lot of amazing stories to be told following these fires—and there are a lot of questions these fires brought up that need answers. Watch RenoNR.com in the coming weeks and months for this special coverage. I suspect some of these stories will end up in our next couple of glossy quarterlies, too.
All of us here at the RN&R are excited to be back in newsprint to bring you our special Best of Northern Nevada issue. We wish we could be in newsprint more often, but given the financial and logistical realities of printing in 2026, we’re doing the best we can. And to reiterate: Even though we’re no longer in print every week or every month, the Reno News & Review is still here, producing the same type of award-winning local coverage that we’ve been producing since 1993, every day at RenoNR.com.
As always, thanks for reading.