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Times staff takes home Press Association awards

The Pahrump Valley Times staff, along with several newcomers to the newspaper, took home several awards at the 2017 Nevada Press Association Awards on Saturday during the association’s annual banquet.

Letters to the editor

Charity should come from heart, not government

Could there be drugging of President Trump?

President Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander of U.S. forces in Korea on April 11, 1952. Truman had earlier refused requests from MacArthur to bomb China and use Nationalist Chinese forces in the war. The firing came after U.S. House Republican floor leader Joseph Martin claimed that Truman had failed to deploy an 800,000-person Formosan army in the Korean war and produced a letter from General MacArthur in support of the allegation.

Coloring quirk lets wild burro stand out in Southern Nevada

The “cream burro” roaming Kyle Canyon is one of only a few with that coloration among the thousand or so wild burros in Southern Nevada, says BLM specialist Tabitha Romero.

Motorcycle crash

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Nevada nonprofit helps startups, companies expand in rural areas

Leadership at a nonprofit organization in Northern Nevada has been developing ways to help fund business owners looking for expansion dollars and others interested in starting a business, along with other offerings in rural Nevada, for more than two decades.

Gold mine expansion moves forward in Nye County

Toronto-based Kinross Gold Corp. is moving forward with the Round Mountain gold mine expansion, the company announced.

Opioid deaths in Nevada decline, but hospitalizations rise, data show

Opioid-related deaths dropped in Nevada in 2016 from a year earlier, but hospitalizations and prescription rates rose, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services data presented Monday show.

Nevada tour brings Attorney General Laxalt to Pahrump

Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt made his way through Pahrump this week as part of his tour across several counties in the state.

Vehicle knocked on its side in Pahrump crash

One person was transported to Desert View Hospital following a violent two-vehicle collision along Highway 160 at the SuperPawn business entrance Wednesday afternoon in Pahrump.

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