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Young Eagles Program introduces kids to aviation

Registration for the Saturday morning slots for free airplane rides are still available

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Mining has outsize impact on rural Nevada counties

Mining accounts directly for about 1 percent of the state workforce but is the state’s fifth-largest economic sector, representing 6 percent of the state economy.

Pahrump robotics team takes fifth at state championships

Pahrump Southern Nye County 4-H’s competitive robotics team, known as Awkward Silence, fought hard in the recent Nevada state finals of the FIRST Tech Challenge (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in Sparks, taking home the award for innovative industrial robot design and ranking fifth place overall out of 36 teams.

Parents sue Nevada regulator in bid to save online charter school

Parents and students are suing the State Public Charter School Authority in an attempt to overturn its decision to close Nevada Connections Academy over performance issues.

Nevada board pardons Hope for Prisoners founder

Jon Ponder, an ex-convict who founded Hope for Prisoners, was granted clemency by the state Pardons Board on Wednesday for past battery convictions.

Smith’s limiting purchases on cleaning, cold/flu products

Smith’s Food Drug posted a message on the Smith’s app advising that sensitization items and cold and flu items would be limited to five per order.

Nevada attorney general’s office opens grant period

A grant period has opened for nonprofits and Nevada agencies to apply for the Services-Training-Officers-Prosecutor (STOP) and Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) grants, according to a press release from the Nevada attorney general’s office.

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