A fire ignited in a 40-foot motorhome along U.S. Highway 6 about 20 miles east of Tonopah, destroying the vehicle carrying a retired couple, who escaped injuries in the Halloween night blaze.
Pahrump Valley residents can expect a pleasant week ahead, as mostly calm, sunny conditions and slightly above-average temperatures are forecast.
Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly wants to hire medical employees for the Nye County Detention Center.
Transparency researcher Robert Fellner stopped in Pahrump on Thursday to talk about the Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) and its soaring debt.
U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Catherine Cortez Masto casts herself as a problem solver.
Trojans cross-country teams traveled to Huntington Beach, California for the Central Park Invitational, which was the largest meet Pahrump had been to this year. The meet attracted 81 teams from all over California and Nevada.
After a lengthy delay, Nye County School District finally received its students’ Common Core test scores last week.
The woman allegedly responsible for a deadly DUI crash last month was formally charged by the Nye County District Attorney’s office.
Nevada lies mostly within the Great Basin, the largest desert in north America. Historian James Hulse has written that the term “basin” can be deceptive, that it is more like a bowl of mashed potatoes, with the potatoes in the center rising higher than the outer ridges of the bowl. There are more than 130 million acres in the basin, and one of the things some federal officials have never understood is that it contains a fragile ecology. When they wanted to do things like install the MX missile system, it not only offended local sensibilities but threatened the health of the basin. That is not the only threat, either.
The Trojans scored late in the first on a Parker Hart one-yard scamper into the end zone, but that first touchdown was about all the Trojans could muster with the exception of a Joey Sladek 37-yard field goal to end the first half.
The Nevada Department of Transportation broke ground on a pair of roundabouts along a one-mile-long stretch of Highway 372 at the intersections of Blagg Road and Pahrump Valley Boulevard Monday.
The Nevada Department of Transportation received $20 million in additional federal highway spending to go toward funding various road projects in the state, including a few that impact the Pahrump Valley.
Hundreds of area residents took advantage of free medical services over the weekend as the Remote Area Medical (RAM) Volunteer Corps arrived in town on Friday.
Pahrump’s Home Depot general manager saluted the efforts of all who volunteered their time to bring a replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the community during last month’s Fall Festival.
Each year when Nevada newspapers gather for our convention and awards banquet, I’m struck by the seriousness of the issues they confronted in their communities.
On September 30, a federal judge threw a new wrench into Wisconsin’s voter ID law, ordering an investigation into whether the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles employees properly implemented measures to ensure availability of identity documents to prospective voters. Those employees seem to be caught in the middle, torn between assisting the disproportionately African-American poor in getting “documented” on one hand, and fulfilling Republican politicians’ aims of suppressing black voter turnout on the other. Cue the world’s smallest violin.
Pahranagat Valley football has received national recognition with the program, winning 98 straight football games. Now that is a feat right there, but this can all come to an end this year, maybe even this week. The question is always who will be the team to do it and will the streak end this year?
A lightning strike was the cause of a brush fire last Wednesday.
Fifteen outside spending groups have pumped more than $1 million apiece into the Senate, congressional and presidential races so far in Nevada this election cycle.
Two Pahrump racers are starting a new family tradition at the Las Vegas Bullring. Robert Smotherman and RJ Smotherman were the first family members to win Bullring championships in the same year.
It has been 19 games since the Trojans boys soccer team won a league game and on Thursday of last week the Trojans ended that nasty streak against Cheyenne in a 1-0 win. Paul Holmes scored the only goal for Pahrump in the first half and the Trojans held on for the win.
A family of four are trying to put their lives back together after a late-morning fire destroyed their home on Monday.
With the 2016-17 school year kicking off Monday around the county, the Nye County School District is ready to handle all that comes with ushering in a new year.
After rain threatened the valley for the better part of the last week, with little precipitation actually falling in town, things are set to dry up heading into next week.
TONOPAH — A prairie falcon has been injured by the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant in Tonopah, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed.
In the torrid midsummer of Southern Nevada, the closest place for local folk to enjoy a cool outdoor escape is in the Mount Charleston area of the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area.
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