U.S. Senator-elect Catherine Cortez Masto on Monday announced the selection of seven senior staffers for her new office.
The PVT sports section was scheduled to do a full feature story on Cody Parkhouse, which was scheduled to run in the paper this week for the Pahrump 250.
It was clear from the start that the 2016 race for U.S. Senate was going to be close.
Nye County commissioners rejected the extension of time for the development agreement between Nye County and Wilson Capital Nevada for the Pine Lakes Estates development in Pahrump.
Campaign promises of job gains mean comparatively little in the town of Indian Springs, a few short miles away from “Casino City.” That’s because the town has consistently maintained high rates of medium, well-paid employment in a vastly slower-paced environment all the way through the recent recession and beyond.
State wildlife officials are searching for a poacher or poachers who illegally killed eight mule deer and left them to rot near Mount Charleston.
The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for recently retired players is out. The voters are ten-year members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). To be eligible, players have to have been retired for at least five years but not more than 15 (one exception: Lee smith, retired for 20 years, was grandfathered in). Each voter gets to vote for up to 10 candidates. Players named on 75 percent or more of the total ballots get in the HOF. Players with less than 5 percent are dropped from future ballots. This year, there are 15 returning players and 19 first-time players.
State Assemblyman James Oscarson was selected to lead the Council of State Governments West’s Health and Human Services Policy Committee, according to a press release.
BEATTY – Rupert Bragg-Smith went before the Beatty Town Advisory Board on Monday with a couple of requests regarding his issue with the lighting of the Family Dollar Store across the street from his property.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will appoint a new Federal Communications Commission chair in January. That chair will likely be inclined to undo the FCC’s 2015 “Net Neutrality” power grab and, to at least some degree, let markets settle how bandwidth gets priced and who pays.
Two adults and one juvenile were arrested last week after allegedly robbing a local convenience store.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s new execution chamber at Ely State Prison is finished, but there is no expectation it will be used anytime soon.
On the floor at the NyE Communities Coalition Activities Center, about 75 children sat in a large circle, patiently repeating lines after the two directors in the middle.
CARSON CITY — A man identified only as “John Doe” who illegally used another person’s information for decades has had his conviction and 78-month sentence for two counts of aggravated identity theft upheld by a federal appeals court.
The Nevada Division of Water Resources started conducting an annual meter pumpage inventory in Pahrump’s Basin 162 that will continue through January.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help while investigating an incident where a dog was tied to a pole and shot several times last month.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office arrested a suspect Tuesday from a shooting incident at Vince Neil’s Tatuado Wild Side Tavern.
RENO—The Nevada Association of School Boards recognized four recipients from Nye County, including Pahrump Valley Times sports editor Vern Hee, at their annual awards banquet Saturday at the Atlantis Resort and Casino.
A Pahrump woman was arrested last week on several preliminary charges including attempted murder.
An audition for the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s production of “Alice in Wonderland” will take place on Monday in Pahrump.
A Idaho man wanted for murder was captured in Pahrump by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
A Pahrump man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly attempting to use a propane tank as a bomb at a local business.
Norman (Norm) and Karen Neiswonger of Pahrump are starstruck when it comes to their twin great-grandsons, Gunner and Ryder Gadbois.
TONOPAH – Though the announcement that a second Nye County solar plant is in the works was the national headline at SolarReserves’s recent solar celebration near Tonopah, the event also provided a behind-the-scenes look at the Crescent Dunes solar plant off Gabbs Pole Line Road.
Rejecting yet another proposed change to an open grazing exemption, the Tonopah Town Board voted 5-0 to give its OK to a resolution aimed at reassuring cattle ranchers that a massive annexation making the town one of the USA’s biggest in land size won’t harm their interests.
Nye County commissioners waived the requirement for paving the new parking lot for phase 3 at the Front Sight Firearms Training Facility.
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford accepted the appointment of Sen. Pete Goicoechea to several legislative committees in the 2017 Legislative Session.
“There’s no crying in baseball!” actor Tom Hanks famously declared in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own.”
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make our fundraising event for the Nye County Technical Response team at Station 51 such a huge success.