Las Vegas witnessed the rise of the megaresort on the Strip. Now a brothel may be setting a similar trend for the sex industry in which opulent brothel resorts cluster as close to Las Vegas as the law will allow. Or maybe it’s another gimmick.
A proposal to raise the town’s current room tax is expected to draw much discussion at the upcoming Pahrump Town Board meeting next week.
Imagine receiving an early morning correspondence that stated the following: “Now, do you want to live or die?” and “I demand that you get back to me with immediate effect, as delay is dangerous. Good luck!”
The tradition goes back more than 100 years.
A popular overlook at Death Valley National Park closed Monday for major renovations.
Local residents may see a slight reduction on their respective rates for trash disposal, depending on how the Pahrump Town Board votes on Tuesday.
With exactly one month left until the Pahrump Town Board form of government is dissolved, board members were presented with an 11th hour bill for services on a project that essentially went nowhere.
The Trojans played their first basketball game at Sunrise Mountain on Tuesday night and lost 69-39. Pahrump (0-1 overall) failed to keep it close in the first quarter with the Miners (1-1 overall) scoring 21 points in the first to the Trojans’ 13. At the half the Miners led 32-17.
Special Olympics Bowling Regionals: Our Mustangs bowling team competed in both single and doubles matches at the South Point Bowling Center Las Vegas on Nov. 22. Single play medal winners: gold medals: Holly Flanagan, Nicole Foster, Justin Hayes, Ashlin Johnson, Cinthia Nelson, and Burdett Ward; silver medals: Billy Klem and Brandon McMillen; bronze medals: Erin Briskey, Kellye Dorrough, Cory Fitzwater, Lucas Mont-Ross, Brian Roberts, Sebastian Smith and Travis Walker.
Winning the office football pool is not the easiest thing to do. The basics of choosing teams to win a pool goes beyond just picking your favorite teams and my favorite, “I picked that team because they had nice colors in their uniform.” Let’s face it there is some skill to it.
It was half-past pumpkin pie time early Thanksgiving evening when Larry Lyon began the trip from a friend’s house in Kyle Canyon down State Route 157 toward the lights of Las Vegas.
I have lived in Las Vegas for more than 24 years and I am embarrassed to say Friday was only my second trip to Tonopah.
The Pahrump Valley Times has reopened its comment section of the online version of the newspaper. It can be found under every article posted at pvtimes.com.
Nye County taxable sales in September were $44.4 million, a $9 million month-to-month increase from August, according to a report released recently by the Nevada Department of Taxation.
Sheriff’s candidate Sharon Wehrly breezed to an easy win over Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall, while Las Vegas attorney Angela Bello scored an upset over first-term incumbent District Attorney Brian Kunzi in the Tuesday election.
Las Vegas –The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southern Nevada District Office asks motorists to be careful of wild horses and burros along our roadways, as the end of Daylight Savings Time brings earlier darkness and lower visibility to Southern Nevada.
For most Pahrump residents, the most they know about National Security Technologies LLC is the dirt parking lot full of cars on Highway 160 just north of the Pahrump Town Office and Home Depot used by workers taking the bus to the Nevada National Security Site.
Mountain View Casino closes its doors
A new restaurant went together very quietly over the past two weeks.
The hotly-contested Nye County sheriff’s race generated $118,336 in spending from the start of the year through the latest reporting period which ended Friday, with Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall outspending his opponent Sharon Wehrly $68,259.47 to $50,077.06.
Almost twice as many Republicans voted early for this general election as Democrats in Nye County.
In 2007, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons was taking a lot of heat for trying to remove a state gambling regulator who had been appointed by the previous governor.
Here we go again, the NDMV is proudly proclaiming advancements in customer care. If your report is correct, for the year 2013, the Nevada DMV has collected windfall taxes equaling $2.8 million, from the kiosk tax levy of $5.00 per transaction.
The close friend of a local man who died in a motorcycle accident last month is speaking out about his friend.
Standing at the counter of his jewelry and appraisal consulting shop on Matthew Lane, Marty Greenfield is happy to be alive. He said he feels blessed to be one of 112 people chosen to participate in a study on the affects of stem cells on a damaged heart. The clinical trials were funded by Baxter Healthcare Corp.
A Pahrump man who ran unsuccessfully on forward-looking platforms in nine government races between 1978 and 1992 has died.
Construction company owner Ron Murphy pleaded for more time to the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission last June when the RPC approved the Pahrump master plan.