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New businesses offer unique services to community

Two new businesses have joined the owner-operated selection of small establishments which make up most of Pahrump’s economy.

Zane swept northern vote in last week’s primary

Mark Zane, a former undersheriff under Harold “Stick” Davis, finished ahead in the sheriff’s race in northern Nye County, according to a canvass of election day voting.

County to ship juvenile offenders to Clark County facility

County commissioners may have been reluctant to house juvenile offenders with more seasoned criminals in Las Vegas, but they bit the bullet Tuesday and decided to approve a contract with Clark County for temporarily housing them at Zenoff Hall.

Commission sets medical pot fees

County commissioners Tuesday approved a bill reducing the fee for initial applications for a medical marijuana dispensary from $30,000 to $15,000, after a last-ditch attempt by Commissioner Frank Carbone to lower the fees even farther to $4,000.

10 attend workshop on public lands acquisition

The hue and cry has arisen throughout rural Nevada for years about the 87 percent of federal land in the state, but only 10 people were interested in a Monday workshop in Pahrump about the workings of a Nevada Land Management Task Force plan to transfer some of it to the state.

Town, county’s insurance premiums drop

Wayne Carlson, the executive director of the Nevada Public Agency Insurance Pool (POOL/PACT), delivered some welcome news to the Town of Pahrump on Tuesday.

Nye vote was polar opposite of state results

Nye County voters bucked statewide trends in two races higher up the ticket in Tuesday’s primary election.

Esmeralda murder suspect takes plea deal

A suspect in the July 2013 murder of a Silver Peak man has reportedly taken a plea deal in the case and will be sentenced on a single charge of second degree murder next month.

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