PRIMM — Eleven Trojan wrestlers spent a long, tough day Saturday, proudly wrestling their hearts out for championship positions at the State Championship Division 1-A Tournament at Primm.
The Lady Muckers will be fighting for the Division IV Nevada State Championship tournament this weekend in Reno. Although making the state tourney for the second time in a row is big, the Muckers want to win it.
The Tonopah wrestling team was represented by three wrestlers at the Nevada State Wrestling Championships at Primm last Saturday. The three wrestlers were Kekoa Elliot at 160 pounds, TJ Ayers at 170 pounds and Tanner Otteson at 106 pounds.
As crews continue their work drilling a well in the Calvada Eye this week, officials with the Nye County Water District were working on their continuing efforts to preserve Nevada’s most precious natural resource on Monday.
A Nye County public defender lost his county contract last Friday after failing repeatedly to provide proof of insurance.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $24 million.
The Beatty Hornets women’s basketball team made it to the second round of the playoffs.
When Nye County commissioners voted June 19, 2013 to implement a revolving loan fund centered around a $1 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, they allotted almost $200,000 of it to NyE Communities Coalition to fund the Brownfields Workforce Training Program.
Local business owner Cassandra Selbach assumed the position of executive director of the Nye County Regional Economic Development Authority (NCREDA) late last year.
Congressman Steven Horsford, D-Nev., said he asked Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House several weeks ago to sign an authorization letter for a new Pahrump VA clinic.
Arlette Ledbetter, Pahrump’s tourism director, knows one thing for sure: It pays to advertise.
Thirty-four candidates running in the 2014 election had two minutes each to state their case for why they should get elected.
One person was flown to a Las Vegas hospital Friday evening following a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of State Route 160 and U.S. 95.
Back in 1990, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams was leading his Democrat opponent in the polls by a comfortable 20-point margin — until he stuck his Texas-sized boot in his mouth by likening rape to bad weather.
The Nevada Supreme Court denied an emergency stay Tuesday that was sought by the Town of Pahrump in its bid to place open town board seats on the November ballot.
CARSON CITY — Bob Halstead, director of the state office of nuclear projects, told the Legislative Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste Friday the Nuclear Regulatory Commission won’t have money to complete studies on Yucca Mountain. His comments drew a rebuke from Nye County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen.
The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is set for May, but ahead of the event, meetings are held, teams of volunteers put together and work begins to raise money for the event.
On February 6, U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards spoke at an annual dinner of the Washington Press Club Foundation.
Remember the last election for sheriff? It was ugly. Fun to cover, but ugly.
Remember when every used car on the lot “was owned by a little old lady who only drove it to church and back each Sunday?” The biggest frauds were turning back the odometer so 140,000 miles magically became 40,000 miles — and tossing out that little old lady story.
• Cortney Ann Stalker was charged on Feb. 5 with unlawful use of a controlled substance, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawfully allowing child to be present during commission of certain situations which involve controlled substances, child abuse and neglect, possession of a controlled substance.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has been caught using purloined passages in several of his speeches. Now the aspiring presidential candidate stands accused of filing a lawsuit stolen from its author.
WASHINGTON — This year’s most important election will not occur in November, when more than 90 million votes will be cast for governors and national legislators. The most important election, crucial to an entire region’s economic well-being and to the balance of the nation’s political competition, has already occurred.
The Pahrump Community Library will host an extravaganza for local authors from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the library.
