After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Voting Rights Act on June 25, Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Harry Reid issued a statement calling the decision “extreme judicial activism” that was “wrongly decided and will unjustly threaten the right to vote for millions of Americans across this country.”
As Nevada citizens are well aware, an awful lot of really bad liberal public policy ideas come out of our neighboring state to the west. Indeed, they don’t call California the “land of fruits and nuts” for nuthin’.
In the July 5 edition of the PVT is was reported that Billie Foy, a close friend of Harley Hamilton was male. This is incorrect, she is female. The PVT regrets the error.
Ultra-marathoner Alexa Dickerson finished her first Badwater Ultra Marathon last year, when she finished 56th out of 96 runners and was the 10th female runner with a time of 38:53.
As a whole, kung fu has managed to hold onto tradition even though the popularity of Mixed Martial Arts combined with American culture has slowly influenced some changes.
Bill Prince and Gary Miller train together on occasion, and both have scored world records in bench pressing. Miller also excels in dead lifting. Both are on a new record-setting trend in 2013 with Prince having added three world records this year, and Miller four.
The Nevada Attorney General’s office has declined to pursue charges against Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo after it was reportedly determined there was insufficient evidence to show the elected official willfully overspent his budget during the last fiscal year.
When daytime temperatures hit 115 degrees, as they have in our area, towns and cities across the Southwest, typically open public facilities to allow those without shelter a place to cool down.
A 55-year-old Pahrump man turned himself into the Nye County Sheriff’s Office over the weekend after he was reportedly involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Las Vegas last Friday morning.
A lightning strike is reportedly behind the wildfire that started in Carpenter Canyon this week and spewed smoke across the valley.
Pahrump residents have been enjoying events surrounding Independence Day since Wednesday when the town of Pahrump kicked of its festivities with the first Movie in the Park.
n this Independence Day weekend, I couldn’t help but feel a little awkward rooting for the protesters in Egypt.
This is the continuing story of young Ben Arata, a dedicated sportsman. But his passion for adventure runs in the family. His sister Amanda doesn’t plan on being outdone by her younger brother.
BEATTY — A bunch of Beatty veterans are hard at work at a religious conversion — well, sort of.
Dissension is creeping into the ranks of the Pahrump Town Board.
When people find out that there is a foot race in Death Valley, they respond by saying, “Oh, they must run it in the winter.” Their jaw usually drops when they are informed it is run during middle of the summer.
In 1989 while watching the Giants vs the A’s in the 1989 World Series, Retired Pahrump Valley High School teacher and coach Rod Poteete took out his old baseball cards from a shoe box and started going through them.
The ink on the fliers was barely dry when news came down that 19-year-old Harley Hamilton’s fight for life ended on June 26.
ummertime in southern Nevada can create a dilemma for many outdoor enthusiasts.
New Hope Fellowship has put the facility formerly housing their Christian school to work. After enrollment for the school program dwindled, church volunteer Cathy Swan was approved to open a recreational facility for children and use a portion of the building and the computers from the school to teach seniors how to use a computer.
DEATH VALLEY, Calif.—Death Valley National Park, in cooperation with the National Weather Service (NWS), will host a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the hottest recorded temperature in the world, measured at 134 degrees on July 10, 1913 at Greenland Ranch (now Furnace Creek Ranch) in Death Valley, CA.
According to participants in the bi-annual Master Gardener’s Tour in Pahrump, one would never know we are in one of the driest places on earth.
VFW donation dinner — 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6. Open to the public.
Several years before I was born, almost two years before my parents actually met, President John F. Kennedy began a tradition about which I never knew. He proclaimed, according to a few articles and a recent Dear Abby letter, “Let’s ring freedom bells!”
WASHINGTON — Progressives resent progress when it renders anachronistic once-valid reasons for enlarging the federal government’s supervisory and coercive powers. Hence they regret Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling that progress has rendered Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
One man was arrested last week on charges of possessing methamphetamine and heroin after he appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance when police made contact with him as part of an unrelated investigation.
One defendant was ordered by a judge to undergo a mental competency evaluation last week after his wife told the court that her husband was exaggerating his health issues to avoid answering to criminal charges.
A byline on a story that appeared in Wednesday’s PVT, headlined “Vote to organize VEA workers flops” was incorrect. Matt Ward contributed the story. The PVT regrets the error.
Valley Electric Association management successfully fended off an attempt by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 396 last month to organize employees at the cooperative.
