Arizona dust blankets Rhyolite sky
Photo shows the July 30 dust storm in Rhyolite. It was at first thought to have been from a wildfire, but reports from Las Vegas indicated that it was dust from Arizona.
Homeschool students of Pahrump and the surrounding areas were invited to celebrate the start of a brand new school year with their very own homecoming dance — the Steampunk Soiree.
After nearly a year in limbo, the improvements planned for the Justin Leavitt Skate Park are finally moving forward again.
Prosecutors have accused Michele Fiore of raising tens of thousands of dollars for a statue of a fallen Metropolitan Police Department officer but spending it on herself and her daughter’s wedding.
A fiery crash involving a lithium battery truck and its aftermath shut down part of U.S. Highway 95 near Indian Springs.
The Nevada Highway Patrol told the Pahrump Valley Times that two semi-trucks crashed directly head-on. One truck was hauling lithium ion batteries, while the other was carrying lumber, officials said.
After 25 years, Smitty, the owner of a local salvage yard, says he’s ready to call it quits. You might know him from his blunt classifieds in the Pahrump Valley Times that advertise the parts, machinery and other fixer-uppers he’s sold over the decades.
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing that Fiore’s claims “rest upon a misreading of two FBI documents and are irrelevant to the wire fraud charges the defendant faces.”
The Pahrump judge and former Las Vegas city councilwoman was indicted by a federal grand jury in July on wire fraud and conspiracy charges.
Legal brothels have operated for decades in Nye County, but one is now believed to be the first to offer a mother-daughter team on its roster.