The Pahrump Regional Planning Commission approved changes recently to Nye County Code Title 17 Comprehensive Land Use Planning and Zoning, following the recent amendments to Nye County Code Title 6 that governs the animal control ordinance.
A proposed outdoor shooting range cleared the hurdle after the Nye County Sheriff’s Office and Valley Electric Association, Inc., came to a consensus over a proposed facility.
Residents who opposed the use of rapid infiltration basins in Discovery Park won a victory Tuesday.
Solid pitching and hitting delivered three wins over the weekend and two more on Monday.
On Saturday the Pahrump Valley track team was at the Meadows Invitational in Las Vegas competing against 17 schools.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck filed Monday to run on the Republican ticket for U.S. Senate. Catherine Cortez Masto filed Tuesday to run on the Democratic ticket.
Valley Electric Association, Inc. began their yearly district meetings Tuesday night at the Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino and among the points that were going to be touched on, one stands out above the rest.
Two rollover crashes and reports of a woman setting fires in the desert rounded out the weekend service calls for Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Services.
A new Pahrump Valley High School pilot program is benefiting a community animal shelter.
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 $9 million.
The Nye County District Attorney’s case related to attorney Nancy Lord took another odd turn last week when it was continued to April 11.
Anyone who’s driven along West Street in the past three months may have noticed Pahrump’s newest neighborhood recycling center.
The unemployment rate in the county rose during the first month of 2016, but the jump was similar to ones seen in the past during the same time.
BEATTY — An old saying goes, “It is an ill wind that blows no good.” Perhaps the same can be said about damaging rainstorms.
It hasn’t been hard to miss over the past couple of weeks if you’ve been driving around town, the price of gasoline is steadily rising in town.
The Pahrump Valley Trojans boys golf team finished in second place in the silver flight at the Pahrump Valley Invitational, a two-day golf tournament at the Mountain Falls Golf Course.
The Pahrump Regional Planning Commission gave a thumbs-up to a tentative map and 11 street names for a 113-lot subdivision in Mountain Falls.
BEATTY — Town residents have recently been up in arms following news that the shop program at Beatty High School would be shut down when longtime teacher Jim Benshoof retires at the end of the year.
Trojans baseball had a slow start at the River Valley Tournament in Arizona, going 1-4.
A group of local residents stopped by the newspaper office a couple of weeks ago expressing their point of view on the direction of this newspaper.
Six years ago during the Reid/Angle U.S. Senate race I wrote a column that called for less casual use of the Hitler analogy. Now we are seeing even heavier use of that analogy against Donald Trump, which suggests a lot of people don’t really know much about Hitler, because Trump would more fittingly be analogized to George Wallace or Strom Thurmond. Here is that earlier column:
It’s getting harder and harder to motivate students to do well in middle school and high school. Students just don’t seem to care about doing well, while local educators find it harder to keep students on task.
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Nye sheriff says district attorney prevents him from complying with state law
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