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The Nevada primary is meant to narrow down party selections ahead of the November general election, but for some local races, Nye County voters voiced their final decisions on Tuesday.
The former Nevada Test Site may have changed its name but that can’t erase the legacy of concern left behind following decades of nuclear testing there.
Nye County voters overwhelmingly rejected Question 1 on Tuesday, a ballot measure that would’ve added a 5-cent tax per gallon on diesel and certain special fuels to help build and maintain public highways.
He cited major flood events on Labor Day 1968, and in February of 1969 or 1970, the first of which, according to Forsyth hit the town with an 8-foot wall of water, and the other with 15 feet of the same.
A fire that sent one person to the hospital and claimed the lives of 17 pets on North Murphy Street Friday evening appears to have been intentionally set by the homeowner, according to a preliminary investigation in the case.
It’s back to the drawing board for developers of a planned assisted care and senior housing facility on 4.72 acres at the northwest corner of Gamebird Road and Simmons Street.
County commissioners approved two memorandums of understanding Tuesday involving the local law enforcement union.
After the Pahrump Town Board voted to hire the former mayor of Mesquite, Susan Holecheck, as interim town manager, some local residents are not sure what to make of the decision — mainly because they don’t know much about Holecheck, who chose to leave her marketing coordinator position at Mesa View Regional Hospital in Mesquite for the town manager position.
As part of President Obama’s plan to reduce carbon pollution and promote American-made clean energy sources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the withdrawal of lands identified for solar energy development in the West from new mining claims.
Part of Pahrump’s community feel are the many family-owned and operated businesses here, which support each other, and use good service and word-of-mouth advertising as an asset.
Former Pahrump Town Manager Bill Kohbarger, whose final day on the job was Friday, was the “man of the hour” as several dozen guests attended his official send-off at Mountain Falls.
Though residents of Trout Canyon were allowed to return home Sunday following a mandatory evacuation caused by the Carpenter 1 fire, it was a bittersweet return as they were unsure whether there would be any running water in their community.
The last of the evacuated residents forced from their homes by the Carpenter 1 fire will be allowed to return home today as firefighters have reached 80 percent containment on the more than 27,000-acre wildfire that began earlier this month.
The homicide rate for older children and young adults has hit its lowest point in at least three decades, but the decline has been slowing, according to a new government report.
Red Cross disaster relief teams from across the nation are mobilizing to support evacuees in states slammed by storms.
President Joe Biden brought a theme of affordable housing to Las Vegas, highlighting a comprehensive plan that would invest nearly $260 billion in the need.
Lake Manly, atop a salt flat, was formed after a deluge of rain over the past six months flooded the national park in California.
At least 30 percent of seniors will experience loneliness around the holidays, and a lack of social interaction can carry significant risks to health and longevity.
