The majority of patients requiring hospitalization are unvaccinated and 70 or older, the Nevada Hospital Association said Wednesday.
Those who travel the town’s main thoroughfare should plan for delays. The project is expected to significantly impact traffic.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in the valley with a large-scale event put on by the Pahrump Holiday Task Force, with a parade and festivities taking over the Calvada Eye for the holiday.
Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Chief Scott Lewis said crews responded to no less than 25 brush fires between 9 p.m. on July 4 through 4 a.m., the following morning; two teens lost limbs from a fireworks explosion; and one fatality was reported from a rollover crash.
Winner Heather Renner will compete in the Miss America Competition later this year.
Petrack Park hosted its first horseshoes event of the season on July 4. The pits have been under construction since February.
The coffers of Pioneer Territory Court Appointed Special Advocates, better known simply as CASA, are now several thousand dollars fuller thanks to the organization’s latest fundraising effort, the Hawaiian vacation raffle.
While things appeared to be moving in the right direction in April, May inflation spiked again; the consumer price index (CPI) rose 1% to a year-over-year high of 8.6%
As part of its mining operations, Pathfinder Tonopah, a branch of Pathfinder Development, plans to construct a 20-megawatt photovoltaic solar energy generation system.
Jeanne Sharp Howerton grew up on a ranch about 100 miles north of the Nevada Test Site. “I didn’t know life without the bombs,” she says.
High gas prices and inlfation are keeping Nevadans closer to home this summer, according to a new survey from familydestinationsguide.com that found Silver State drivers are expected to travel just 272 miles this summer – about half the distance they traveled last summer.
Amargosa Valley held a horseshoes tournament on Sunday over the holiday weekend that helped raise money for the Amargosa Racing Association.
Pahrump enjoyed a dazzling display of fireworks for Independence Day, while others enjoyed events all weekend. See pictures of the events.
Officials at Death Valley National Park reported that visitors spent $104 million in surrounding Nevada and California communities last year, according to a new National Park Service report.
At a Pahrump Foster Care Panel, foster parents and state officials said Nevada’s rural foster care system is in need of loving, supportive homes.
A Pahrump man is facing burglary and other charges after deputies arrested him while trying to escape on a motorbike.
This year’s events began at 10 a.m. on Monday with a small parade, consisting mostly of the town’s emergency services vehicles.
“What has been a slow motion train wreck for 20 years is accelerating, and the moment of reckoning is near,” the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority told Congress.
