For the second time in a year, a new solar power plant is facing unwanted attention for scorching birds in midair with concentrated sunlight.
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced Tuesday by four Nevada lawmakers would give the state new veto power over storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Carmelo’s Bistro has been in business in the Pahrump Valley since 2006, when they moved the business from Las Vegas after several years in existence there, offering their Italian fare to those who call Nye County home.
Valleys Edge Country Store owner, Cary Jubinsky, always wanted to open a store with an old town feel, and a chance opportunity helped bring that dream to fruition after moving back to the valley following a brief hiatus from town.
I spent part of a day last week writing an article about how the National Republican Senatorial Committee gets material for its attacks on Harry Reid from the Washington Free Beacon.
Nye County will consider permitting an additional animal sanctuary to the list of 35 facilities currently operating at a meeting of the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission meeting tonight.
WASHINGTON — Officials from a Pentagon agency toured the Yucca Mountain’s tunnels last month but do not intend to work at the Nevada site, a spokesman said March 2.
I was my 14-year-old daughter’s age when the first gas lines appeared in 1973, thanks to the newly created Mideast oil cartel that we would soon know as OPEC and President Richard Nixon’s ill-advised effort at government control of oil prices.
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 $15 million.
Nye County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warning to residents regarding annoying phone calls from someone identifying himself as an officer.
The principal of Tonopah High School is behind bars facing open and gross lewdness and child abuse charges after Nye County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested him on Monday.
Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly reacted to department budget cuts by taking a proactive approach to create sources of revenue in hopes of saving positions, programs and full functioning of the Tonopah jail.
Students at J.G. Johnson Elementary were doubled over in laughter after watching their principal kiss a live pig last Friday. It was all a part of Nevada Reading Week where Principal Jeff Skelton issued a challenge to his students.
After more than two decades of serving the community’s various needs, a local agency finds itself in need of something –space.
Tonopah’s senior nutrition office manager Timaree Koscik said the lives of seniors in rural Nye County are in peril after county officials cut funding to a longtime program.
The Pahrump Valley Speedway raced last Saturday despite the threat of rain. The car count seemed to be unaffected by the threat with 44 cars showing up for the contest. This count didn’t include the nine young Mini Dwarf racers who showed up.
Trojans baseball starts this week with the boys at the Sun Devil Tourney at Eldorado High School in Las Vegas today and Saturday.
The Nevada Department of Education’s Gear Up program held a College and Career Fair program in the Beatty Community Center Feb. 26. Students were able to speak with representatives from colleges and universities and with people in a wide variety of careers. Students involved included Amargosa Valley, Esmeralda, and Rosemary Clarke eighth graders, and freshmen from Beatty, Pahrump, and Tonopah high schools, and both eighth graders and freshmen from Gabbs.
A preregulatory on-site biologist team halted operation at the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy facility in Tonopah in January after identifying a large number of birds had been killed during early-phase testing.
WASHINGTON – The Energy Department appears to be shopping new uses for Yucca Mountain that it no longer wants for disposal of nuclear waste, according to senior House Republicans.
After undergoing two consecutive rainy weather delays it appears that the repavement of the three-mile stretch of Manse Road between Homestead and Hafen Ranch roads is finally set to begin.
Tails End Animal Shelter Director Susan Cronin said she was blindsided this week after learning the Nye County Board of Commissioners will not renew the shelter’s $225,000 annual contract due to budget cuts.
The Trojans golf team scrimmaged with the Bishop Gorman golf team on Tuesday afternoon. It was their second outing of the season. Last week the Trojans were at Palo Verde in another preseason scrimmage at TPC at the Canyons.
A landmark performance at the renowned House of Blues in Las Vegas awaits a local band early next month.
CARSON CITY — A Senate resolution that asks Congress to convey more than 7 million acres of federal land to state control generated a large volume of testimony on both sides of the issue at a Monday hearing, but the issue appeared to be as polarizing as ever.
The three suspects in a recent home invasion were employed selling Kirby vacuum cleaners in the Pahrump Valley and may have come in contact with many local residents, police announced this week.
This has been an exciting year for outdoor conventions and banquets, with new equipment and opportunities in every aisle. But, there’s more to these events than stuff and making new friends.
