Rural Nevada hospitals, schools and other entities will soon have the opportunity to access faster broadband connections than ever before. The public can benefit, too, assuming local wireless phone and Internet providers are interested in purchasing the service wholesale and offering it to residents.
Jody Memmott, of Las Vegas, who ran the Texas Twister drink stand at this year’s Pahrump Fall Festival, said the day gets pretty long by the time the late concerts end, then she has to wake up early the next morning and do it again.
The Trojans Cross Country team has been improving with every meet. For the first time since entering the Division I-A the mens team has five to six runners who regularly finish under 21 minutes.
Nye County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a 27-year-old southern California woman whose body was discovered in the desert along Hafen Ranch Road on Thursday.
I’m writing this week’s column from Denver, Colo., where there’s something in the air.
Since his ignominious departure from the U.S. Senate, the name of Nevada’s John Ensign has seldom appeared in political news coverage. Republicans, after all, wanted to forget him and he didn’t cut enough of a figure in Congress for Democrats to keep his memory alive for their own propaganda purposes.
As we say goodbye to the hot temperatures and welcome the cool fall, it is amusing to see how other cities deal with above average temperatures. Two weeks ago temperatures soared to 100 degrees in Southern Nevada and in other Southwest cities like Los Angeles. Life went on in Southern Nevada, but in Los Angeles it was too hot to play sports. So do the Los Angelenos really know what heat is all about?
Appearances at the annual Fall Festival are a must on the political calendar and candidates were busy meeting the public, in one way or another, as the race for the Nov. 4 election goes into its final stretch.
Nye County School District officials are trying to raise voters’ support to address nearly $17.7 million for various capital projects by extending current bonds by 10 years.
The operators of Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club are trying to expand its operations beyond the well-moneyed sports enthusiasts who currently utilize the racetrack.
The Trojans posted 359 yards total offense to the 304 yards of the Chargers and still came up short. The Clark Chargers beat the Trojans through the air last Saturday 34-17.
Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada has received suggestions from 54 people for anything from soccer fields to a Frisbee golf course to an outdoor movie theater at the old Willow Creek Golf Course, UICN President Wendy Barnett said.
A Pahrump man has been found guilty of a series of felonies including first degree kidnapping, battery with substantial bodily harm, and domestic battery by strangulation for attacking an ex-girlfriend in 2012.
TONOPAH — Shoshone Estates Water Company Inc. will receive a five-year, no-interest loan for $11,000 but not a requested grant from the Nye County Water District Monday to draw up a preliminary engineering report on how to combat high arsenic levels.
A recent Pahrump Regional Planning Commission appointee spoke out against using federal grant money to build the local airport during public comment at a Nye County Commission meeting in August.
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.
Nye County sheriff’s candidate Sharon Wehrly introduced Brent Moody as her second-in-comand Saturday night in front of her booth at the Pahrump Fall Festival.
The Trojans mens soccer team is in downward spiral. They have lost four league games in a row and are 0-5.
