State lawmakers receive local input on water issues

Members of the Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Study Water on Monday sought solutions on how to deal with water appropriation and dropping water levels in Pahrump and across Nevada.

Town receives eight tourism grants totaling $52,440

The town of Pahrump got a huge boost in their efforts to draw more visitors to town when they were awarded eight grants, totaling $52,440, from Nevada Tourism.

My Paralegal closing office space, selling furniture

Longtime Pahrump business, My Paralegal, is closing its office space this weekend and they are looking to unload their office furniture before the conclusion of the week.

Commissioner provides county’s voice at Yucca hearing

Nye County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen traveled to Washington, D.C. for a hearing on Thursday to give the county a voice on the issue of Yucca Mountain.

New league brings high hopes for volleyball team

The Trojans girls volleyball team is looking good for the 2016 fall season with four veteran players returning from last year’s playoff team, and with the new Class 3A Sunset League formed, the Trojans should have a break-out year.

Hospitals busy with area crashes

Numerous motor vehicle collisions in the past several days kept Pahrump fire crews quite busy over the weekend.

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 $16 million.

Extreme Heat U14 team takes second in Utah tourney

Pahrump Youth Softball Association’s Extreme Heat U14 team continued its winning ways this summer. The team played in a nine-team tournament in Cedar City, Utah over the July Fourth weekend and finished in second place.

Future use for Bullfrog mine site still unknown

BEATTY — What will ever become of the Barrick Bullfrog mine site outside of Beatty? That has been a question for a decade and a half.

Knapp: Hillary Clinton: More equal under the law than others

In his July 5 press briefing, FBI director James Comey spoke 2,341 words explaining his decision not to recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to transmit, receive and store classified information during her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. He could have named that tune in four words:

Myers: If climate change is not stopped

In about 1971 when I was an Army police officer in Germany, I read in Stars and Stripes that a German town was being abandoned because it was polluted beyond saving as a result of the activities of a local business. The inhabitants were being relocated to a new town.

Past transfers of federal land led to corruption, history suggests

CARSON CITY — Some Nevadans are pushing the federal government to transfer more public acreage to state control, but history suggests past management of these lands by those entrusted with their care was mired in corruption.

Feds to help state scrutinize juvenile justice system

CARSON CITY — Nevada’s juvenile justice system will get a thorough review with help from the U.S. Department of Justice in an initiative announced Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

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