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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.

The race for Nevada’s open U.S. Senate seat between Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Joe Heck is still deadlocked, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Nye County director of administrative services Lorina Dellinger has been appointed as assistant county manager.

Hundreds of Nye County voters took to polling places in Pahrump and Tonopah on Saturday.

Voters in Nye County and throughout the state will get to weigh in on four statewide ballot questions, including two of the most controversial measures in recent memory.

The campaign for state Assembly District 36 between two-term incumbent James Oscarson and his opponent, Libertarian candidate Dennis Hof has been the most contentious one in the county, if not in Nevada.