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Nye County Room Tax audit underway

Professional auditor looking into waived late payments by transient lodging establishments.

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Ex-cop sentenced over naked desert romp

A former Nye County Sheriff’s deputy who was arrested last year for absconding from parole and fabricating a story about being abducted after he was found wandering naked in the desert area of Wheeler Pass Road was sentenced to six months in jail followed by probation last week.

Action on parcel map changes deferred

Nye County commissioners on Tuesday modified changes that were originally supposed to speed up approval of development projects. Three changes to county code were proposed, including lifting limits on permits for fireworks stores. But they deferred action on the most controversial change, requiring minimum five-acre lot sizes for single-family residences, to a new Pahrump groundwater basin management committee.

Reid, Heller announce sage grouse plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nevada senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller jointly released a discussion draft of the Nevada Sagebrush Landscape Conservation and Economic Development Act, designed to conserve sage grouse habitat in the Silver State while providing economic development opportunities to industries and local governments.

Town sets sights on profitable rally

Exactly six months from today, local residents, town officials and area businesses will learn if a Pahrump sponsored motorcycle rally was worth the effort.

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Ceramics studio is ‘All Fired Up’

Small businesses are always opening here. Some of them don’t succeed, while others do. One successful approach comes with an attempt to fill a niche market where the business offers a services not in competition with the bigger box retailers — even the ones in Las Vegas.

Bill introduced to transfer land for college

WASHINGTON — A proposal to convey 285 acres near Carpenter Canyon Road and Highway 160 just outside Pahrump as a Great Basin College campus was included with a bill granting special status to thousands of acres containing prehistoric artifacts north of Las Vegas that advanced in Congress on Thursday.

Weather cooperates for annual bird count

AMARGOSA VALLEY — Seventeen volunteers took part in the 19th Annual Christmas Bird Count at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Dec. 15, serving as citizen scientists joining tens of thousands of volunteers as part of the National Audubon Society’s 114th Annual Christmas Bird Count.

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