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The town’s ability to advertise the area to potential tourists received a boost last week, as the board of county commissioners approved its fiscal year 2017 budget at its meeting last week.

State plans to rehabilitate a 13.5-mile stretch of Highway 160 passed a routine hurdle before the county commission last week.

A water conservation plan for commercial development from the Basin 160 Groundwater Management Plan is on the way to the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission.

A new marijuana cultivation business that wants to operate in Pahrump will have to make a lined pond as a condition of approval from the Nye County Water District Governing Board.

The lowest cash price for regular unleaded gasoline in Pahrump was $2.09 per gallon Tuesday, which is up six cents from last week’s lowest price of $2.03 a gallon.

Patients and staff at HealthCare Partners on East Calvada Boulevard were evacuated on Tuesday morning following an accidental chemical spill just after 10:30 a.m.

The cause of death of an inmate from Nye County who passed away last month while serving time at a Las Vegas detention facility has been determined.

Monday there’s a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service. Partly sunny, with a high near 95 degrees. East-southeast wind around 9 mph becoming south-southwest in the afternoon.

A California doctor pleaded guilty to a pair of counts related to taking archaeological resources from Death Valley National Park and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

In recent days, Nye County Sheriff’s deputies have witnessed an increase in suspects exhibiting extreme agitation, distress and mania, usually brought on by drug use.