It’s time to stand together for victims. Nevada Senate Joint Resolution 17, also known as “Marsy’s Law”, is named after a woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 1983.
With Republican Congress bent on depriving 22 million Americans of medical insurance, this is a great time to provide our own, totally free and totally effective health insurance – a plant-based diet.
A few days ago I bought a copy of the New York Times, not something I do much anymore. Both the print edition and online access have risen above my price range. But I needed something to read on the bus home, so I ponied up $2.50.
I was out on a movie date with my youngest daughter. She needed a break from her stressful job as an Intensive Care Pediatric RN and wanted to see the latest movie from JK Rowling. We had arrived early enough to get our popcorn and settle into our seats for the previews and then out of nowhere I found myself thinking, “should I be carrying right now?”
The Nevada Department of Transportation plans to spend $6.8 million on road projects around Nye County for this fiscal year. That does not include the cost of finishing the two roundabout projects on Highway 372, and the widening of Highway 160, both of which were on last year’s budget.
A Idaho man wanted for murder was captured in Pahrump by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
A Pahrump man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly attempting to use a propane tank as a bomb at a local business.
Norman (Norm) and Karen Neiswonger of Pahrump are starstruck when it comes to their twin great-grandsons, Gunner and Ryder Gadbois.
TONOPAH – Though the announcement that a second Nye County solar plant is in the works was the national headline at SolarReserves’s recent solar celebration near Tonopah, the event also provided a behind-the-scenes look at the Crescent Dunes solar plant off Gabbs Pole Line Road.
Rejecting yet another proposed change to an open grazing exemption, the Tonopah Town Board voted 5-0 to give its OK to a resolution aimed at reassuring cattle ranchers that a massive annexation making the town one of the USA’s biggest in land size won’t harm their interests.
Nye County commissioners waived the requirement for paving the new parking lot for phase 3 at the Front Sight Firearms Training Facility.
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford accepted the appointment of Sen. Pete Goicoechea to several legislative committees in the 2017 Legislative Session.
“There’s no crying in baseball!” actor Tom Hanks famously declared in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own.”
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make our fundraising event for the Nye County Technical Response team at Station 51 such a huge success.
In November 1967, President Lyndon Johnson set out on a speech tour across the country.
“We should have been firemen,” he said quietly but matter-of-factly.
The long holiday weekend will get off to a pleasant start, but inclement weather is possible for the end of the Thanksgiving break.
Mick Akers / Pahrump Valley Times
With the holidays upon us, many families will take to the road to visit national parks, recreation and conservation areas and other public lands. Children and public lands are usually a natural fit but sometimes kids need a little help to become interested. An ideal way to enhance their experience and have some fun at the same time is to take part in the Junior Ranger Program.
A public college had the authority to remove a nursing student from its program for Facebook posts without violating the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision emphasizes the danger that students take when posting profane or unprofessional remarks online.
Nathan Adelson Hospice’s largest fundraiser of the year in Pahrump returns to the Mountain Falls Grill Room in less than two weeks.
A longtime advocate for Alzheimer’s and resident of Pahrump was on the TD Jakes show with Maria Shriver talking about her experiences taking care of her mother, who passed away some six months ago.
Just months after raising its rate for the first time in 10 years, Valley Electric Association, Inc. announced it will slash the 9.9 percent rate increase that went into effect in June.
It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.
The Pahrump Valley boys basketball have a whole new team this year and are hoping to take the league by surprise.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Saturday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $46 million.