Kickoff times announced for UNLV home games

The UNLV football team’s last season at Sam Boyd Stadium features six home games, with kickoff times for all six announced by the university’s athletic department.

Pahrump Valley football team returns home from Utah camp

Joe Clayton is entering his seventh season as the head football coach at Pahrump Valley High School, and in each of those seven seasons the Trojans spent a week of their summer at a football camp hosted by Southern Utah University in Cedar City.

The Oasis at Death Valley offers free electric vehicle charging

Thanks to a partnership with the National Park Foundation, National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and BMW of North America, six electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have been installed at The Oasis at Death Valley to serve visitors to Death Valley National Park, the park announced.

California Lottery

No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Saturday, July 20 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $64 million.

Recent quake impacts Devils Hole

The 7.1 magnitude earthquake on July 5 impacted Devils Hole, the National Park Service reported on its web page.

GriefShare starting fifth year of healing in Pahrump

Pahrump resident Pete Giordano always says it feels like just a short time ago that he started the local chapter of GriefShare but the group is in fact now entering its fifth year and its impact on the community has been far-reaching and undeniable.

Back to School drives to aid Nye County students

In less than three weeks, Nye County students are set to head back to their classrooms for another year of learning and one of the most important parts of readying for the school year is rounding up all the supplies necessary to take on the looming academic challenges.

Dennis Myers: Speechmaking errors are difficult to hide

During the July 4 celebration on the D.C. mall, an event at which presidents previously sat in the audience and let the performers have the limelight, Donald Trump stepped up and made a political speech in which he attacked Democrats for showing restraint in military spending.

Renewable energy system, energy efficiency loan guarantees available

Farmers, rural small businesses and agricultural producers are being encouraged to apply for financing in a key U.S. Department of Agriculture program that provides loan guarantees to help rural small businesses lower their energy costs.

Pahrump restaurant to see expanded hours

Carmelo’s Bistro is launching new hours and other new food choices starting on Friday.

Summer heat bringing concern for people, pets

Roughly a month after the start of summer, the president of Pahrump’s Desert Haven Animal Society is offering advice to area pet owners about the brutal heat in Southern Nevada, and how it poses a lethal threat to domesticated animals.

Apollo astronauts conducted desert survival in Nevada

What may have been a storied bootprint from the first man to walk on the moon 50 years ago was preceded five years before the historic landing.

Beatty Town Board seeks road race course support

In a letter approved at its July 15 meeting, the Beatty Town Advisory Board petitioned the Nature Conservancy to allow an off-road race to cross a property it now owns. The town has enjoyed a friendly and beneficial relationship with the Nature Conservancy in the past, with Beatty receiving national recognition for its efforts to protect habitat for the Amargosa toad.