“More than 70% of high school students average less than 8 hours of sleep,” according to an Oct. 1 research letter in JAMA Pediatrics (“Dose-Dependent Associations Between Sleep Duration and Unsafe Behaviors Among U.S. High School Students”), “falling short of the 8 to 10 hours that adolescents need for optimal health.
Flight for life should be for life or death injuries
Time is running out to make reservations for a special trip to Laughlin, Nevada this month.
The Friends of the Belmont Courthouse have a lot to celebrate, with a recent donation from the Nye County Commission adding a substantial amount of cash to the group’s coffers.
There was something out of place at the Labor Day Classic cross country meet, held the second weekend of the season at Palo Verde High School.
Sometimes, too much rest is a bad thing. That certainly seemed to be the case Saturday at the Pahrump Fall Festival Horseshoes Tournament, when Dan Dunn and Mike Nicosia came out of the losers bracket to beat winners bracket champs Craig Jahnke and Chuck Hickstein twice to claim the championship.
During a normal season, the Pahrump Valley High School girls volleyball team would use an event such as the Boulder City Invitational as a midseason test, to see how the Trojans stack up against a variety of teams at this point in the season.
Here’s a fun food trend perfect for the upcoming holidays and beyond. You make a cone, like an ice cream cone, but with pizza dough. You can fill the cone with fabulous foodie fillings of your choice. This is the ultimate portable party food vehicle or fun way to breathe new life into your family-favorite recipes.
A large portion of Esmeralda County and western Nye County were pounded with “numerous” thunderstorms earlier this week.
The Nevada Department of Transportation reopened storm-damaged Nipton Road (Nevada Highway 164) to public traffic in southern Clark County.
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 $11 million.
Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce CEO Chris Erwin addressed the issue of what appears to be a shrinking rodeo, compared to years past at the annual Pahrump Fall Festival, which concluded its four-day run this past Sunday.
Following the resignation of Pam Webster from the appointed post of interim Nye County Treasurer, the Nye County Commission has selected a new interim treasurer to fulfill the last three months of former elected treasurer Richard Billman’s term. Nye County Chief Deputy Treasurer Jennifer Perry was chosen for the position.
Taking the information they learned from a Salt Cedar Control Workshop hosted in Pahrump earlier this year, the volunteers and staff at West Star Animal Rescue are ridding the property of many of these invasive, water-consuming plants and they are calling for others in the community to follow their example.
“The idea of the Grape Stomp is to stomp as much juice as possible out of those grapes. It’s a great way to celebrate the harvest and to taste some good wine.”
The thick, heavy plumes of black smoke seen throughout the entire valley was due to a massive fire at a local recycling facility on Wednesday afternoon.
Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of Oct. 8 – Oct. 12
U.S. citizens were charged in an indictment unsealed this week for their roles in a Costa Rica-based telemarketing scheme that allegedly defrauded victims in the United States, including the elderly, the U.S. Justice Department announced.
The public information below was provided by the Nye County District Attorney’s office.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Wednesday that 2017 highway fatality numbers are down following two consecutive years of large increases.
The Nevada Office of Traffic Safety announces the implementation of SB259.
There are lots of silly attacks in politics, but liberals acting aghast over Republicans criticizing California is especially laughable.
