By Mark Waite Candidates for office at the Artesia Community Center candidates forum Tuesday night all seemed to agree Yucca Mountain was a project worth pursuing. It was the sole question from the audience, posed by Richard Hatch, after the stump speeches ended. Danny Tarkanian, who leads in fundraising for the new congressional District 4[...]

By Kelci Parks – Special to the Pahrump Valley Times “Pull it up!” “Climb, climb, climb!” If he heard those words at all, they were the last contact he had with anyone. It was a little more than a year ago that Lt. William B. DeGroff’s family received news that had eluded them for 40[...]

By Kelsey Givens The quick actions of a suspect’s father may have saved a woman’s life after a 33-year-old man was arrested for allegedly attempting to murder his former girlfriend on Thursday. Leslie Villa, 33, was arrested on charges of attempted murder, domestic battery strangulation and two counts of first degree kidnapping at 11:44 p.m.[...]

By Matt Ward The lone survivor of a February 2011 house fire that killed three of her children and a family friend pleaded guilty to a single charge of felony child abuse and neglect on Monday. Sharon Broadhead was in District Court to officially accept a plea deal made between her attorney and county prosecutors.[...]

By Mark Waite County commission candidates liked the idea of evening meetings and criticized the way the Blagg Road situation was handled, but were split on Yucca Mountain, during a Nye County Republican Party Central Committee debate Monday night. Nye County Commissioner Gary Hollis, who is running for re-election in District 2, and Julie Hargis,[...]

By Selwyn Harris Seven Pahrump Valley educators were honored for outstanding work as teachers on Saturday. The Stand for Children Day Celebration and Teacher of the Year awards ceremony was hosted by the NyE Communities Coalition and put on at its facility on East Wilson Road. It was the 13th annual event spotlighting the town’s[...]

By Mark Waite TONOPAH — Nye County District Attorney Brian Kunzi threatened to file charges if the sheriff’s department continues to bust its budget in the upcoming fiscal year, in violation of state law, during a budget workshop Tuesday. The exchange came while Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall was inquiring whether sheriff’s dispatchers and detention officers[...]

By Steve Tetreault WASHINGTON — Federal appeals judges indicated Wednesday they were troubled over the licensing shutdown of Yucca Mountain, but they struggled whether the nuclear waste project might be too dead to order it revived. Both sides faced sharp questioning in the case that pits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission against plaintiffs that include South[...]

By Mark Waite Las Vegas attorney Matthew Callister went fishing for clients Monday evening for a class action suit against Utilities Inc., attempting to prove the company dumped improperly treated sewage into the ponds at the former Willow Creek golf course. Callister won a victory when Senior Judge Miriam Shearing allowed him to certify a[...]

By Mark Waite Nye County is submitting a proposal to the governor’s office to establish the Nye County Regional Economic Development Authority NCREDA and asks for $200,000 from the Nevada Office of Economic Development. The request is being made despite a bad track record for local development organizations. The latest acronym, NCREDA, will replace EDEN,[...]