The smell of fried goodies, the rhythmic whir of carnival rides, cheers and dust rising from the rodeo grounds – Pahrump saw all this and more this past weekend as the town hosted its biggest celebration of the year, the Pahrump Fall Festival.
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Staff earned nine awards, including five first-place honors
Closing the regular season out strong, both Boulder City High School tennis programs earned a trio of victories to gain momentum heading into the postseason.
Southwestern Wilds secured four locally-famed wild horses at a recent BLM auction.
Live speakers, virtual guests and vendors will all be featured at the upcoming event.
Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Services crews responded to a reported structure fire at the Gold Town Casino convenience store just after 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 17.
Over the past few months, the subject of speed limits on Pahrump Valley Boulevard and Dandelion Street have popped up repeatedly at Nye County Commission meetings.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Saturday, Dec. 14 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $11 million.
In the Silver State, the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) estimates that more than 1.7 million people spent a total of $638.9 million on gifts, decorations and other merchandise over the five-day period spanning from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is ready to deliver more than 28 million packages per day through Dec. 21 and will average 20.5 million packages per day through the remainder of the year.
The Internal Revenue Service reminds retirees born before July 1, 1949, that they usually must take distributions from their retirement plans by Dec. 31.
The Nevada National Security Site has named Dr. Jose O. Sinibaldi as chief scientist and executive leader for the site’s science, technology, research and development programs.
One person died and four others were injured following a crash Wednesday on U.S. Highway 95 in Nye County, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
The 2019 annual Christmas Cookie and Candy Making Contest attracted a healthy field of contestants this holiday season with nearly two dozen entries of sweet treats being dropped off for judging in mid-November at the Pahrump Valley Times headquarters.
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Nevada’s Department of Public Safety is investigating over a hundred searches the sheriff made for people’s strictly protected law enforcement information since his term began four years ago, McGill told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday.
U.S. Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto want to ensure that Yucca Mountain never serves as a nuclear waste dump site.
Nevada was awarded the federal money to help modernize the state’s rural health care system and bolster access to it, officials said.
Suspended Justice of the Peace argued her 2026 reelection campaign will be “clouded by misinformation” without an expedited appeal in a filing Friday.
