Nye County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man Tuesday after they say he robbed a local bank at gunpoint.
This past Saturday was supposed to be just another day for Pauline Pavlick.
Ask anybody who has been studying for a test for weeks how they felt after they failed and the answer would probably be lousy.
During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, corruption in government and industry was so common and blatant that it generated widespread revulsion in the public. It led to the Progressive Era, when remedies were adopted that turned out to be less than successful, such as initiative, referendum, and recall. Today the initiative petition process in California is a national joke and its use here in Nevada has effectively been limited to special interests.
DETROIT — Robert Griffin, now 90, who rose to be second in the Republican U.S. Senate leadership, was defeated in 1978. Since then, only one Michigan Republican, Spencer Abraham in 1994, has been elected to the Senate and for only one term. Evidence that former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land might end this GOP drought is that Democrats are attacking her for opposing “preventive health care.”
The Trojans baseball team lost its first league game against the Faith Lutheran Crusaders on Thursday, dropping to 10-7 overall and 3-1 in league play.
The proposed photo voltaic solar project planned on 745 acres of private land west of Powerline Road in Amargosa Valley could be generating 110 megawatts instead of 65 megawatts as first proposed.
Valley Electric Cooperative Association will hold its annual membership meet with all the the fanfare, raffle drawings and updated project information.
As the third anniversary of Hope Cancer Care of Nevada opening in Pahrump passes this month, co-founder Dr. Raja Mehdi said he wants patients to know they have a choice when it comes to where they receive their cancer treatment.
The quiet neighborhood in the area of Simkins Park is abuzz this week with bulldozers and work crews as the construction of basketball courts got underway at the site.
It was a picture-perfect day to be at Mountain Falls Golf Course in Pahrump last Friday as the Trojans Golf team hosted the annual Pahrump Invitational, which had sixteen teams and 108 individual golfers in all.
Trojans track traveled last week to two different meets. Earlier on Wednesday they went up against the Cheyenne Desert Shields and prevailed on both sides of the house.
The committee drawing up a plan to manage the Pahrump groundwater basin Monday voted 6-1 to endorse a plan to restrict future subdividing of residential parcels outside utility service areas to five-acre lots or larger, joining the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission and Nye County Water District board.
Nye County Public Administrator candidate Bob Pilkington responded this week to accusations he changed his name to avoid paying child support and belonged to a notorious motorcycle gang.
Time is running out to see the music department of Pahrump Valley High School perform in its last concert of the year, which will be this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. The concert is free.
Area officials criticized the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as heavy-handed in their reactions to the standoff over Clark County rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle roundup.
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 $49 million.
Quick show of hands: How many of you think it’s OK for a parent to do their child’s homework?