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.
The 2018 general election resulted in a win for Republican nominee Pam Webster, who would have taken over the seat of Nye County treasurer in an elected capacity after having held the position in an appointed capacity since January 2018.
A bill that would let Nevadans buy into a state-sponsored Medicaid-style health insurance plan could see a revival in the 2019 Legislature after a similar bill was vetoed by Gov. Brian Sandoval in 2017, said the Democrats’ leader in the Assembly.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Saturday, Jan. 5 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $8 million.
The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance on excess business loss limitations and net operating losses following law changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
DaVita, in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, indicated that while Optum will continue with its planned purchase of DaVita, it will carve out the Nevada clinics, helping reduce the price of its purchase to $4.34 billion.
The industrial hemp industry in Nevada and other parts of the country was set to see growth as President Donald Trump signed the 2018 farm bill.
Nevada’s lawsuit to halt a court-ordered shipment of military-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a national security site north of Las Vegas will get a hearing later this month in federal district court in Reno.
The 20-day enforcement period began Wednesday and lasts until Jan. 22 as part of the multi-jurisdictional Joining Forces program through the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s Office of Traffic Safety.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers will ditch their blue uniforms Tuesday as the agency completes a two-year transition to gray uniforms that began Jan. 1, 2017.
The holiday season made for a very busy workload for area first responders going into the new year.
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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.
