By Kelsey Givens Graveside services are today for a Marine killed in Afghanistan last week. Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman was just 22 when he died. The 2007 Pahrump Valley High School graduate and another young Marine, Lance Cpl. Kenneth Cochran, 20, of Wilder, Idaho, were electrocuted during an accident involving a broken electric generator. Bateman will[...]

By Mark Waite Valley Electric Association customers, roughly 17,000 of them, received letters this week assuring them the VEA solar hot water heater program was safe and built to code. The letters appear to put the Pahrump Valley Times in hot water for printing comments by a former county official objecting to Nye County passing[...]

 By Mark Waite  They’re called “the 99ers,” people who used up all 99 weeks of their unemployment benefits. They could be the hidden statistic marring the optimism over lower unemployment figures. The Nye County unemployment rate dropped a whole percentage point during 2011, from 16.3 percent at the start of the year, to 15.3 percent[...]

By Kelsey Givens A woman, dressed in dark clothing and walking alone in the middle of State Route 160 Tuesday night, died when she was struck by a northbound truck. The accident happened near the highway’s intersection with Wheeler Pass Road at about 8:15 p.m. The victim, whose identity has not been made public, was[...]

By Mark Waite The Pahrump-Nye County fairgrounds project won’t be built in a day, but then neither was Disneyland, which started out with the purchase of a 160-acre orange grove just outside Los Angeles, at the junction of the Santa Ana Freeway and Harbor Boulevard in 1953. That’s how Nye County Interim Community Development Director[...]

By Mark Waite A representative of the Building Trades Council from California, told the California Energy Commission that nearly all the construction workers on the Hidden Hills project on Tecopa Road would come from his state. BrightSource Energy has applied for a permit from the CEC to construct two, 250-megawatt solar power plants on 3,200[...]

By Selwyn Harris Hot and cold may be the best way to describe the relationship some town board members have with the oft-embattled town manager, Bill Kohbarger. During Tuesday night’s regular meeting, an agenda item addressed whether the board would soon be advertising for a new town manager, essentially providing Kohbarger notice that his one-year[...]

By Selwyn Harris An effort to amend Pahrump Town Ordinance PTO 35 was tabled by town board members Tuesday evening. The ordinance relates to the licensing of area businesses. Last November, Pahrump Town Manager Bill Kohbarger held a series of workshops to inform local residents and would-be business owners what to expect from the proposed[...]

One has had three wives, the other a Swiss bank account — closed in 2010 so he could run for president, again. What good is a two-party system when the best and brightest presidential contenders for one side are Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum’s win in Iowa, we think, was a fluke.. So[...]

By Vern Hee – Special to the Pahrump Valley Times This ghost tale revolves around the making of a horror movie which tells the story of a fictional ghost hunting team that encounters a demonic entity while filming its TV show. Local resident James Horton, a movie producer and owner of Preferred RV Resort, went[...]