Short Answer: Reno decorates only the permanent tree in City Plaza for the annual tree lighting. This year, the cost was $21,000. Sparks throw a Christmas celebration in Victorian Square.

KTMB volunteers are accepting trees through 4:30 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a,m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday at 6000 Bartley Ranch Road in Reno.

This lights competition occurs on Dec. 14, but the Christmas lights are sure to stay up throughout the holiday season. If you live in Cold Springs, the neighborhood north of Reno, you can enter ...

Both Johnsons are 95 years old this year, the same age of the downtown tree lighting. Born on Jan. 6, 1929, Don Johnson grew up in Gerlach and Golconda and graduated from the University of Nevada, ...