Tourism officials in Pahrump report the number of visitors is on the rise and some say that the changing image of the town is one of the reasons.
This July marks 113 years since the world’s record 134-degree high temperature was recorded at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park, nearly 30 years since the Badwater 135 ultra endurance race became an annual event, and 20 years since a small group of tourists from Germany mysteriously disappeared in the desert outback.
This July marks 113 years since the world’s record 134-degree high temperature was recorded at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park, nearly 30 years since the Badwater 135 ultra endurance race became an annual event, and 20 years since a small group of tourists from Germany mysteriously disappeared in the desert outback.
The completion date for the State Route 160 widening project under construction in town has been pushed back at least a month.
Hillary Clinton is pulling away from Donald Trump in Nevada with early voting underway, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Concerning an article in the Review-Journal about coyotes no running in packs, up until this year, we have found this the case, with the female training her pups to hunt, then kicking them out of the family to be on their own.
Abortion has been an issue between Republican Joe Heck and Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto in their U.S. Senate race. This surprised me because I didn’t remember Heck being particularly opposed to abortion when he was a state legislator. Nor has there been any news coverage this year telling us what his position is.
The race for Nevada’s open U.S. Senate seat between Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Joe Heck is still deadlocked, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Secretary of State’s office on Friday reported there are 1,464,819 active registered voters statewide who are eligible to participate in the Nov. 8 general election.
For the first time all year, gasoline prices in the valley have caught up to last year’s prices. After spending the entire year below 2015’s prices, the lowest average price of regular unleaded gas in Pahrump was even this year at $2.25 per gallon.
Home sales in the valley jumped a considerable amount over the previous year in September, with 44 single-family units being sold, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
As the only medical center covering a large area of Nye County, which also sees patients from parts of eastern California, the emergency department at Desert View Hospital tends to a broad range of medical issues at any given time.
No injuries were reported after a fire destroyed an enclosed utility trailer last Tuesday, Oct. 18.
Glossophobia, or speech anxiety, is the fear of public speaking or of speaking in general.
The graduation rate of high school students in Nye County increased slightly over last year’s mark, a state preliminary report showed.
Beatty running back Michael Olson led the team with 247 yards to help the Hornets won in Tonopah on Friday, 60-20.
The Pahranagat Valley Panthers made history as they quietly won their 100th consecutive game on Friday due to a forfeit against Indian Springs, becoming only the third team to do so.
Trojans Booster Club president Cindi Colucci is putting out a call for all Trojans fans to travel to the football team’s game on Thursday at Moapa Valley High at 7 p.m.
The Trojans will be sending five teams to postseason play. It’s the most teams since the Trojans were in 3A before the 2008 season.
The Trojans defense made a statement last Friday by keeping Mojave off balance the entire game. Junior Cory Bergan played a key role in that defense and had four interceptions and a pick-six to help lead Pahrump Valley to a 30-8 win over Mojave on Friday.
When Nevada inherited the closed Beatty low-level nuclear waste dump in 1997, it accepted $9 million from the company that had operated it for decades to ensure that the waste — some of it tainted with deadly plutonium — would remain safely buried for a century.
CARSON CITY — A new economic analysis of the Energy Choice Initiative released this week concludes that if approved by voters, Question 3 would create thousands of new clean energy and clean technology jobs.
How can a shoebox containing school supplies and personal hygiene products make a difference for a child?
For many years, members and officers of the Pahrump Moose Lodge 808 regularly assist with fundraising dinners for various organizations in the community.