Mt. Charleston Marathon leading to traffic restrictions
With only a penny increase on the week, the national gas price average saw the smallest one-week jump since mid-February, though Nevada’s ranks fifth nationally in price, AAA announced Monday. For the last eight weeks, weekly jumps ranged anywhere between a nickel and a nearly a quarter, AAA said.
Nevada roads have seen a decrease in fatal crashes through the first three months of 2019.
In the span of two weeks, the Pahrump Valley High School softball team went from playing Goliath to playing David to playing a couple of increasingly rare games against teams roughly equal to them.
The Monster Truck Insanity Tour returned Friday and Saturday nights to Pahrump, and the tour’s operator fully intends to bring it back next year.
A couple of decades ago, the Nevada Legislature enacted a new tax on soft drinks. When that legislative session ended for the year, the beverage industry contacted one of the state’s high-powered lobbyists and asked how to get rid of the new tax.
Valley Electric Association has extended office hours and installed new phone software in moves that are expected to improve customer service for members, the cooperative announced earlier this month.
The College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno has earned an extension of accreditation in business and accounting from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. AACSB accredits institutions with the highest standard of excellence that continually work to improve the quality of business education.
Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of Jan. 28– Feb. 1
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Wednesday, Jan. 23 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $13 million.
The public information below was provided by the Nye County District Attorney’s office.
The Tri-County Weed Control Board of Directors is on the hunt for two fresh faces and Nye County Commissioner Lorinda Wichman is turning to the public to find the new members.
Pahrump sixth-grader Brandon Mountz is the No. 1 bull rider among Nevada’s junior high school competitors after winning the event on both days at an Oct. 13-14 rodeo hosted by Spanish Springs.
The 2018 edition of Beatty Days kicks off at noon on Friday, Oct. 26 and continues through Sunday, October 28. Other than the parade, events are held in Cottonwood Park.
A Pahrump resident and leader at Nathan Adelson Hospice has earned a “prestigious” certification, according to a news release from the company.
Nye County gaming operators and owners experienced a slight dip in gaming win this fall.
Trump’s Elko visit, coming on the first day of early voting in Nevada, coincides with a Las Vegas visit by former Vice President Joe Biden. Former President Barack Obama visits Las Vegas on Monday.
As a lifelong Republican, former mayor of Mesquite, former town manager of Pahrump, and member of the National League of Cities, I’m calling on Congress to partner with rural communities to develop an infrastructure plan to support our modern economy. Our country at large – and our rural communities in particular – are greatest when we invest in building great things.
On Oct. 17, 1926 the Republican nominee for Nevada treasurer, Clara Cunningham, was killed in a car wreck.
Hundreds of people waited patiently in a line extending more than 100 yards outside the entrance of the Charles Brown General Store and Gift Shop on Highway 127 in Shoshone, about 23 miles southwest of Pahrump on Monday.
Famed Nevada brothel owner and Nevada Assembly District 36 Republican nominee Dennis Hof may have passed away on Oct. 16, but political experts are predicting his death will make very little difference in the outcome of that race.
Teatro El Grande returns to Tecopa this weekend with a celebration of Halloween in “Flames of Our Ancestors,” an all-new show debuting Friday, Oct. 26.
With less than two weeks until the 2018 general election, the Nye County Democratic Central Committee is gearing up for its largest fundraiser of the year, the annual Roosevelt-Kennedy Dinner.
The next stage in road improvements in Pahrump is underway, with the town’s namesake street, Pahrump Valley Boulevard, the target of a $1 million rebuild project.