The Pahrump Town Board welcomed a new staff member this week by hiring Kevin Harper as the town’s new code enforcement officer.
Despite blustery conditions, event organizers said the first annual Desert View Hospital Foundation charity golf tournament at Mountain Falls last week was a success.
Valley Electric Association members in districts 5 and 6 have the opportunity this year to vote on board members to serve three-year terms.
Medical marijuana zoning regulations and licensing will be on the agenda when the Nye County Commission meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday at commissioners’ chambers, 2100 Walt Williams Dr. on the Calvada Eye.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $32 million.
First recognized in Southern California in the mid 1980’s, automobile Crash For Cash scams have spread to every state in the U.S. If you think that you are immune because you live in a nice, quiet, little town, guess what? You’re not. Crooks love pulling this one in nice, quiet, little towns because nobody is expecting it.
Travel through Nevada long enough, and you’ll see some remarkable things.
WASHINGTON — Many “Downton Abbey” watchers are nostalgia gluttons who grieved when Lord Grantham lost his fortune in Canadian railroad shares.
Another week in sports is gone and we have just 29 Sundays left until another football season starts. Not that I am counting — or anything.
Valley Electric Association was ordered to appear at a show cause hearing by the Public Utilities Commission on why the cooperative shouldn’t be fined up to $63,000 for starting construction on the Nevada National Security Site innovation project before the PUC granted final approval.
The Community Christian Academy sent 16 kids to Lake Mead Christian Academy for the annual Association for Christian schools International Spelling Bee.
Last Friday the Tonopah Muckers men’s basketball team traveled to Las Vegas to face the Adelson School Lions, leader of the Division 4 Southern League, and lost 67-45.
President of the Mountain Falls Ladies Golf Association, Dee Trimble, gathered her association last Friday to present two lifetime achievement awards to Lucille Koenig and Jonna West.
Organizers of the tentatively scheduled High Desert Cup Music Festival and Cannabis Expo cleared another hurdle this week to hold the event at Petrack Park this April.
Police arrested a 59-year-old teacher’s aide Tuesday after two Hafen Elementary School students complained that she used physical force on them.
The planning department is recommending against reducing the size of the Pahrump Regional Planning District, when it comes up to a vote by the Nye County Commission Tuesday.
Just in case it slipped your mind, today is Valentine’s Day. I won’t tell anyone if you forgot. Of course, you could head to the store and drop some cash on the usual flowers, jewelry and chocolate, nothing wrong with that. But I prefer to think of it as an opportunity to tell those we love that we will love them always and forever and that doesn’t need to cost a dime. Once again, creativity comes to the rescue! Here are some romantic, fun and yet frugal (and some free) ways to aim Cupid’s dart at your target’s heart.
If you have never had the opportunity to hear a historic theatre pipe organ, here is your chance.
veryone has dreams, and for those who think being able to travel the world would be the ultimate experience, there is a way to live the dream and do it inexpensively.
We’ve all experienced misadventures, but somehow they seem more dramatic when experienced in the wilderness.
When commissioners met Jan. 21, they approved privatizing the Nye County Animal Shelter and granted a contract for $225,000 to the sole bidder, Susan Cronin, owner of Tails End.
My computer at the office sits right up against a corner. Posted on the two walls to my left and right are memorabilia, mementos if you will, of my more than three years here at the Pahrump Valley Times.
Controversial Nye County Facilities Manager Bob Jones’ last day on the job was Feb. 11 and his last day of employment with the county is Feb. 25, Human Resources Manager Danelle Shamrell confirmed Thursday.
Nye County commissioners will consider a bill that would prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries, but allow conditional use permits for cultivation, during the 10 a.m. Tuesday meeting next week.
The distraught young accuser at the center of a 2013 child molestation case had to be transported to the local hospital Thursday afternoon after learning a jury had found her alleged attacker not guilty.
A former Pahrump Valley High School athletic director was honored in December with a distinguished service award from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association for his service to the Southern Nevada community.