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How Nye’s sheriff auxiliary operations are evolving

With their trademark, creased light blue button-down shirts, Nye County Sheriff’s Office auxiliary officers are always visible at scenes of vehicle crashes, structure fires and other incidents involving public safety. But there are now changes underway into the auxiliary program in terms of operations, certain procedures and appearances among the officers, including new polo-style shirts.

Connecting causes and community — Pahrump Volunteer Fair set for May

Thanks to an AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund grant, Nevada Volunteers is embarking on three years of Volunteer Fairs that will take the organization all across the state and the very first stop will be right here in Pahrump.

Landscape Tour will highlight local yards

The Pahrump Valley Garden Club is all set to hold its 16th Annual Landscape Tour and anyone with an interest in gardening, plants or yard art will not want to miss out. This year’s event features six local yards, all hand-picked by the Garden Club members to give attendees a wide variety of landscape types to peruse.

GALLERY: Celebrating the lives of lost loved ones

Butterflies are a symbol of transformation and one of the most transformative things a person can experience is the death of someone they love.

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Hospitals busy with area crashes

Numerous motor vehicle collisions in the past several days kept Pahrump fire crews quite busy over the weekend.

Feds to help state scrutinize juvenile justice system

CARSON CITY — Nevada’s juvenile justice system will get a thorough review with help from the U.S. Department of Justice in an initiative announced Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

Past transfers of federal land led to corruption, history suggests

CARSON CITY — Some Nevadans are pushing the federal government to transfer more public acreage to state control, but history suggests past management of these lands by those entrusted with their care was mired in corruption.

Future use for Bullfrog mine site still unknown

BEATTY — What will ever become of the Barrick Bullfrog mine site outside of Beatty? That has been a question for a decade and a half.

Yucca Mountain project history told from the inside

The former chief scientist of the Yucca Mountain Project has released a two-volume, 920-page book on the history of the project.

Widening of 1.75-mile stretch of highway underway

The Nevada Department of Transportation began a $3.49 million widening project of State Route 160 between Rainbow Avenue and Calvada Boulevard on Tuesday.

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