Pahrump sports teams show success

Sports teams at Pahrump Valley High School are entering the final days before Christmas as a busy schedule awaits the athletes with 2018 set to start soon.

Demand for sports equipment forecast to reach $14.8B in USA

U.S. demand for sports equipment is forecast to reach $14.8 billion in 2021, according to “Sports Equipment: United States,” a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports.

Committee completes Class 5A football realignment

Bishop Gorman and Liberty will be playing football at least once a year. Under the new Class 5A realignment, the two leagues will do away with the traditional Sunset and Sunrise, east-west configuration, and instead align the schools based on a north-south orientation.

California Lottery

No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Saturday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $7 million.

Wild burro gather set for Johnnie area

Public safety concerns are prompting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to gather about 75 wild burros on private land in the Pahrump area, the federal government announced this week.

Elderly Pahrump man dies in house fire

An elderly Pahrump man is dead following a late morning house fire, just after 8 a.m. on Sunday morning.

NDOT anticipates heavy Christmas traffic in Southern Nevada

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) anticipates heavy Christmas holiday traffic from Friday, Dec. 22, through Tuesday, Dec. 26, in Southern Nevada, the department said this week.

Hundreds of gallons of water flood plaza in Pahrump

At least seven local businesses have been placed on a precautionary “boil water notice,” after a leak at the Wheeler Springs shopping plaza on Monday afternoon.

Firefighters tame riverbed blaze in Beatty

BEATTY — The Beatty Volunteer Fire Department responded to a brush fire in the Amargosa riverbed near the end of Amargosa Street on Sunday evening.

BLM clears way for broadband construction to Sandy Valley in southern Nevada

In mid-December, after 19 months of waiting, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management gave Valley Electric Association permission to start construction on the installation of fiber-optic cable to Sandy Valley, VEA announced this week.

Pahrump Nugget upgrades the casino’s table games pit

The Pahrump Nugget Hotel-Casino has redesigned the property’s table games pit, adding new games, upgrading the entertainment features, and giving the space an all-new décor, officials announced this week.

Nevada leads USA in private-sector job growth

With data through the second quarter of 2017, Nevada has regained the title of the fastest growing private sector in the United States, with the addition of 41,000 jobs relative to the first six months of 2016, the Nevada governor’s office announced.