PUPFISH KEEP ON SWIMMING: Devil’s Hole Pupfish teetering on edge of extinction

Millions of dollars have been spent to study and preserve an ancient fish that lives on the brink of extinction. Money continues to be spent with no expressed quantifiable goal, although biologists and aquaculturists are amassing data that they hope will have broad implications.

State Champions will be made this weekend

The Trojans finished league undefeated and league champs, and now the hard work begins. The Trojans travel to Boulder City High School for the Division I-A Southern Nevada Championships today. Action starts at 4 p.m. This meet determines which wrestlers will be sent to state.

California Lottery

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 $14 million.

School Menu

Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of Feb. 9 – Feb. 13

Senior News

Pahrump Senior Center

PVHS Science Bowl team goes head-to-head in regional competition

Calling the event a high school version of “Jeopardy” would be an accurate description according to Pahrump Valley High School Math Teacher Jim Paxton.

Test scores disappoint district officials

Poor proficiency testing took center stage during a Nye County School District Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday night.

Here’s how to raise a vegetable-loving kid

I haven’t mastered the art of parenting. Not even close. But I say with pride my kids love their veggies.

NDOT crews witness rollover accident

Alcohol may be the cause of a late morning single-vehicle rollover accident along Highway 160 on Wednesday.

Senate chairman pushes for Yucca

WASHINGTON — The new chairman of a Senate energy panel on Thursday announced he plans to focus on nuclear energy this year, including a bid to end an impasse on nuclear waste created when the Yucca Mountain repository was terminated.

Seven wild burros adopted out

Traffic-stopping wild burros wandering the Pahrump Valley and corralled by the Bureau of Land Management in December, have found new homes.

Crime corner, Feb. 6

Man jailed for domestic battery

Trojans basketball needs a community boost

Yes, the Trojans dropped another game to Western, both teams did. The Lady Trojans (2-17 overall, 0-12 Sunset League) lost to the Warriors (5-8, 3-8) 38-34. The Trojans boys (0-15, 0-12) followed with a disappointing 51-35 loss.

It’s clutch time for the Lady Hornets

For the Lady Hornets basketball team, the season is winding down and it’s crunch time for them. The Lady Hornets (5-3 overall, 3-3 Division IV Southern) needed to beat Lund (3-6, 3-3) last week and didn’t. They lost 32-27.

Shadow Mountain Community Players: Good eats with a twist of mystery

The Shadow Mountain Community Players (SMCP) opens its season with the dinner play “The Hollow” by Agatha Christie. The play is being held at the New Hope Fellowship on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21. The dinner is Mexican style. Doors open with the dinner served at 6 p.m. The play begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $17.50 per person.

Nature construction firm tapped to fix Beatty field

The Nye County School District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to approve hydro-seeding Beatty High’s football field.

Readers return fire on last week’s gun column

Mention the subject of gun safety in Nevada, and you’re bound to draw metaphorical fire from every angle.

Assembly holds hearing on locking guns in vehicles

CARSON CITY — Gun owners packed an Assembly hearing Wednesday to support a bill that would allow people to have guns on school grounds in their vehicles.

Employee meal prep oversight to ease budget shortfall

The Nye County Sheriff’s Office has announced that employee meal prep oversight of inmate meals at the Pahrump jail, could result in cost savings totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Enrollment through state exchange up

The number of consumers enrolled in health insurance through the state exchange has continued to grow.

Nye County calls out BLM on omissions

Nye County has chastised the Nevada Bureau of Land Management for its omissions in delineating conflicts between approved county plans and proposed land use actions in its draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement.