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.
In America’s past, pioneers packed up their belongings, loaded them into handcarts and wagons and struck out for the western frontier in search of new horizons.
A Pahrump teen has earned the opportunity to win a very prestigious title and her name accurately describes where she is at this point in her life.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Wednesday, August 7 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $69 million.
The Nye County School District is readying for hundreds of students to return to classes in Pahrump and other surrounding communities on Monday.
In a solemn and moving ceremony that drew together an enormous crowd of mourners from all walks of life, the memory of former Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo was honored at a memorial service hosted last Saturday, Aug. 3 in Pahrump.
Crash fatalities are 23 percent below the same point last year, with in 147 deaths on the state roads through July.
The Nye County District Attorney’s Office has formally charged the owners of a private boarding school in Amargosa Valley that closed in February with numerous counts of child abuse or neglect.
Nye County Commissioner Debra Strickland is calling for the standardization of countywide hours of operation, requesting that all county offices maintain the same business hours and operate five days per week.
Amid another sweltering summer day in the Pahrump Valley, volunteers descended on three local stores, setting up booths and fans to combat the heat while they prepared to collect as many school supplies as possible during the 13th Annual Fill the Bucket School Supply Drive.
The Navy fighter jet pilot who died after crashing a fighter jet at Death Valley National Park last week has been identified as Lt. Charles Walker, 33.
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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.
