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The completion date for the State Route 160 widening project under construction in town has been pushed back at least a month.

Hillary Clinton is pulling away from Donald Trump in Nevada with early voting underway, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

CARSON CITY — A new economic analysis of the Energy Choice Initiative released this week concludes that if approved by voters, Question 3 would create thousands of new clean energy and clean technology jobs.

When Nevada inherited the closed Beatty low-level nuclear waste dump in 1997, it accepted $9 million from the company that had operated it for decades to ensure that the waste — some of it tainted with deadly plutonium — would remain safely buried for a century.

The graduation rate of high school students in Nye County increased slightly over last year’s mark, a state preliminary report showed.

No injuries were reported after a fire destroyed an enclosed utility trailer last Tuesday, Oct. 18.

As the only medical center covering a large area of Nye County, which also sees patients from parts of eastern California, the emergency department at Desert View Hospital tends to a broad range of medical issues at any given time.

Home sales in the valley jumped a considerable amount over the previous year in September, with 44 single-family units being sold, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

For the first time all year, gasoline prices in the valley have caught up to last year’s prices. After spending the entire year below 2015’s prices, the lowest average price of regular unleaded gas in Pahrump was even this year at $2.25 per gallon.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Secretary of State’s office on Friday reported there are 1,464,819 active registered voters statewide who are eligible to participate in the Nov. 8 general election.