Severe weather struck Pahrump Valley for the second time in two weeks on Sunday when summer monsoon storms dumped a torrent of rain, turning streets into rivers and creating havoc in other ways.
Football season is almost here. There are 29 days until the Trojans take the field in their first game against the Chaparral Cowboys from the Sunrise League in Division 1-A.
Police took one man into custody last week after an alleged “spice” lab was discovered in his home near the Calvada Eye.
More than 20 days after the Carpenter 1 fire forced Trout Canyon residents to evacuate their homes, the small canyon community is still without running water.
The Tonopah Muckers return this season with an experienced team, but without Seth Littlefield in the quarterback position.
The Pahrump Regional Planning Commission (RPC) revisited several agenda items last week that were tabled earlier this month after a communications error prevented the body from taking any action.
Diane Wrightman, director of Great Basin College’s Pahrump campus, said about the new school year, “Graduation starts today.” That means from the time a student registers, plans a two- or four-year curriculum and starts attending classes, they’re on the road to their graduation.
A District Court judge ordered a temporary injunction against the sale of a 70-year-old Tonopah airport hangar during a short hearing Monday.
Jurors heard opening arguments Tuesday in the case of a 2012 shootout between two Nye County Sheriff’s deputies and a biker outside a home on Manse Road.
On Aug. 16-18 the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) will hold its fourth annual cribbage tournament here.
Trojans varsity coaches are taking on club sports at Pahrump Valley High School. The coaches want changes in the way club teams operate at the school.
The world is using more energy every day and creating and harnessing energy isn’t the problem — it’s storing what is harnessed and feeding it back into the power system to make power grids everywhere more efficient.
Anyone visionary looking for that perfect outfit but is unable to find it on the rack can get custom clothing made especially for them at the new Mimosa’s Design located at 1491 Highway 372.
Nye County Animal Control officers launched an investigation into a local nonprofit animal shelter after receiving a report about poor conditions at the facility.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Saturday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $8 million.
When I was a small boy, one of my favorite fruits was the tangerine. In those days, there was only one tangerine. I think it was called the Dancy. The fruit was very loose inside the skin, which made it easy to peel, and the sections came apart easily so it wasn’t messy like an orange. And it tasted better, less bitter, than an orange.
I just received a new fundraising letter from the re-election campaign of Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R&R-Partners) that is absolutely mind-blowing in its disingenuousness.
• 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Mystical Healing, 1230 S. Loop Road. For information call Jerry at 727-4531.
The Wall Street Journal published an essay by author Radley Balko last week that caught my attention and I thought I’d share some of it here.
A settlement reached earlier this year between the sheriff’s office and a former inmate have led to changes in the county inmate mail policy.
A man who claims he owns one of three hangars at Tonopah’s tiny airport will be in District Court Monday in an effort to keep Nye County from taking possession of the property.
A longtime local hangout was sold this week.
Tuesday’s Pahrump Town Board meeting set an unofficial record as being the shortest regular meeting of the year so far.
Between April and May of this year, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office brought in more than $50,000 in application fees for concealed weapons permits, yet none of those funds stayed with the department.
BEATTY — It happens every year. Residents and visitors to the Beatty area start seeing a lot of identical cars, some covered with strange squiggly patterns (to frustrate automotive paparazzi), and for a few weeks every summer Beatty becomes sort of a little Germany.
• Lucas Benford was charged on July 18 with offer, attempt, or commission of unauthorized act(s) relating to controlled substance, first offense.
Police took one man into custody over the weekend after he allegedly tried to run from them following a report of domestic battery at a home on the south-end of town.
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — The morning’s breakfast trade at the Waffle Iron Restaurant had slowed, and the waitress politely answered the stranger’s question as she refilled his coffee cup.
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1 dead, 1 arrested after fatal stabbing at Pahrump park
Nye sheriff says district attorney prevents him from complying with state law
The legend of the Rhyolite grave of Mona Bell
Fire chief: Some have ignored burning restrictions in Pahrump
SNEAK PEEK: Go inside the remodeled Nye County Health and Human Services office