Incoming U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald gave his approval for the award of a contract to construct a new veterans clinic in Pahrump, U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev. announced Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., will lead newly-appointed U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald on a visit to Veterans Administration facilities in Las Vegas Saturday and had to cancel a planned “Coffee with the Congressman” at the Pahrump Starbucks.
The Pahrump Valley Museum will host its next lecture at 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 9, with Roy Mankins, who will be speaking about his experience with the nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and the interaction with Pahrump.
The Nevada Community Emergency Response Team Program will conduct a free, two-day, training class hosted and held at Preferred RV Resort in its clubhouse on Saturday, Aug. 16, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 17, from 8 a.m. to about 1 p.m.
The Division I-A continues to grow in the south. Currently the division has 16 teams in it and the Northern region has nine teams. The Southern region just added three more teams, Del Sol, Spring Valley and Sierra Vista. This has some of the schools in the Northern I-A a little uneasy.
A District Court judge overturned a $1 million judgment against a northern Nye County rancher on Wednesday, agreeing that the plaintiff’s attorney likely perpetrated a fraud upon the court.
They average more than 600 responses each month, ranging from house fires and motor vehicle accidents to EMS calls for strokes or heart attacks.
For those clamoring for some football action, the long drought is over. Football is back. The NFL preseason started last week and high school football in the valley is gearing up to start with the first game scheduled against Bonanza on Aug. 29 at home at 7 p.m.
TONOPAH — Nye County acquired the historic Belmont courthouse after action by the Nevada Legislature last year, now the county will acquire the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Manhattan.
The Nevada Attorney General’s Office charged Nye County Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall with a single misdemeanor count of injury to property Wednesday.
Though it’s always better for law enforcement to chase down suspected criminals, one local resident said she just reacted when her pickup truck was stolen from her yard Monday afternoon.
Mike Hickey normally only hosts the Sunday jam session at the HUBB with Dean West and Wild Bill, but tonight he will be performing solo with songs from Jimmy Buffet, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Merle Haggard and George Strait.
Look what I made! This is what happens if I’m left alone in the kitchen too long.
Andre “Butch” Harper has been in the news more often and in more cities across the country than even he can count. He is on a mission which began in earnest when he was 39 years old and has never stopped. He gives credit for his inspiration to four children that are not his own.
Desert View Hospital (DVH) CEO Kelly Adams believes greater efficiency inside the emergency room means shorter wait times, increased productivity and overall patient satisfaction.
The House opened proceedings Wednesday with a chaplain’s prayer that lawmakers be granted “a double portion of wisdom and understanding.”
Judith Nies doesn’t leave the environmental optimists and desert daydreamers among us much room for hope in her new book, “Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa and the Fate of the West.”
Bowling News: Mike Hildebrand bowled a perfect game, 300 on Aug 4, at the Nugget Bowling Center.
TONOPAH — Residents of Nye County will soon be paying a 25-cent per month surcharge on their land line and cell phones, after recommendations of a 911 Advisory Committee were adopted by county commissioners Tuesday.
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.
This may not be a popular column topic, but it’s something that needs to be said. Please don’t shoot the messenger.
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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
Fire chief: Some have ignored burning restrictions in Pahrump
SNEAK PEEK: Go inside the remodeled Nye County Health and Human Services office
GALLERY: How Pahrump marked Juneteenth