A 30-acre parcel on the far south end of Pahrump near the intersection of Bond Street and Oakridge Avenue will be the home of a blueberry farm pitched to the Pahrump Town Board earlier this year, landowner Dan Harris said.
Some candidates may have taken a breather after the June 10 primary, before resuming their campaigns in the five months between that contest and the Nov. 4 general election.
The beloved board game Monopoly has spawned all manner of themed spinoffs. There’s Dog-opoly, Chocolate-opoly, KISS-opoly, Muppet-opoly, Elvis-opoly and even Las Vegas-opoly.
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been doing stories in journalism about gas prices.
A Pahrump man is dead following a fatal car accident on the south end of town late Saturday evening.
When the Pahrump town board as it exists today goes away in January, the current town administration will continue as is. At least that was the crux of an amendment to Nye County Code approved Tuesday.
A man wanted for escaping a sheriff’s office jail work-release program was found Tuesday in a local park.
Pahrump gained 59 residents and Nye County grew by 81 residents in the second quarter of 2014, continuing back-to-back quarterly population increases since the second quarter of 2013, according to figures from the Nye County Planning Department.
A public debate is set for Aug. 19 on a county bill requested by Commissioner Frank Carbone setting up a Nye County Peace Officer Advisory Board.
Desert View Hospital Marketing Director Meagan Kowalski stared at the empty boxes inside the lobby of the hospital with great concern last week.
Pahrump’s tourism director had much to be pleased about after last week’s town board meeting.
Desert racing has been popular in Nevada as early as the 1960s and a large part of desert off-road racing now comes from an organization called Best in the Desert Racing. This organization puts on six highly competitive off-road races during the year. They are: Paker 425, Bluewater Desert Challenge, Silver State 300, Vegas to Reno, Mint 400 and Henderson 250. For many, Best in the Desert Racing represents the highest competition in desert off-road racing. The PVT spoke with the owner of Best in the Desert, Casey Folks, by phone about what it would take to bring some desert racing back to Pahrump.
Players 96 girls soccer club 18 and under is coached by Joe Sladek and they won the 2014 U.S. Youth Soccer Region IV Championship tournament, which included 13 Western states. They will be at the nationals in Germantown, Maryland on July 22-27.
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 $21 million.
The new Big 5 Sporting Goods store on Loop Road, across from Saddle West Hotel &Casino, is getting ready to start hiring employees. Its managers are working with NyE Communities Coalition Career Connections as part of the hiring process and are planning a hiring event for Aug. 12.
