Nye County School District officials presented the outcome of the district’s Criterion Referenced Testing and proficiency exams this week with some promising results.
Instances of harassment, sexual harassment, misconduct and battery among students on Nye County School District campuses topped the discipline report for the first two quarters.
The third annual Donkey Basketball game will played at the high school gym on March 6 at 7 p.m. This is quality family entertainment that the whole family can enjoy.
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 $12 million.
Eric Shenberger is an artist. He is a creator, but not in the usual sense of the word. Shenberger builds race cars and to most he is just that, a car builder, but his creations to most racers in the community are things of beauty.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-NV, recently held a veterans roundtable in Las Vegas to discuss happenings on Capitol Hill.
I have been reading in the news about all the civil forfeiture events around the country, which are really troubling, and the forcing of businesses and people to violate their freedoms for political correctness, and the forcing of banks to not do business with people the government deems questionable, and it brought to my mind the following question:
Spurred in part by the BLM’s April roundup of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle that brought an armed confrontation between federal agents and Bundy supporters, Assemblyman Ira Hansen is pushing for a bill in the 2015 legislative session that would prohibit BLM and Forest Service law officers from enforcing state laws.
Anyone driving along East Kellogg this week may have spotted unusual activity among the vineyards at Sanders Family Winery.
No one was surprised when Chris Brockman, Pahrump Valley High School principal appointed Jason Odegard to the position of athletic administrator. Odegard is a new assistant principal at the high school.
The Trojans are ready for the first game of the season on Friday night at 7 p.m. after a strong scrimmage with the Durango Trailblazers last Saturday.
The Trojans will have a new junior varsity boys soccer coach for this year, Wes Icard. Icard played for Pahrump Valley Trojans and graduated in 2005. He played for Chris Johnson, who coached at Pahrump from 2004 until 2008.
Local resident Vic Barnes was preparing to do his Monday afternoon workout this week when all of a sudden he looked out the window and saw a large dust devil approaching his property at the far west end of town.
A long-serving juvenile court master and former Pahrump justice of the peace resigned her position after 35 years of service to the county last week after the District Court urged her to take a drastic pay cut.
A former Nye County public defender filed a scathing motion in District Court Friday, accusing a controversial detective of possibly planting evidence in a pending child pornography case.
Nye County authorities served a search warrant Tuesday at the home of a local attorney, confiscating some three dozen animals that had become a nuisance to nearby residents.
If ever there was a project making history in Nevada, it would have to be SolarReserve’s massive Crescent Dunes Solar Plant which is nearing completion outside of Tonopah.
Some people just can’t sit still. They are always running one business while starting a project that leads to another business, and when there is spare time, they find a way to purchase yet another business. Those people are called entrepreneurs and Joe Opatik has maximized his opportunities over the years.
“In a piece of campaign literature,” writes columnist Steve Sebelius, “state Senate District 9 candidate Becky Harris declares she’s ‘not your typical Republican.’
Over the years during debates about whether the press is liberal or conservative, I’ve always maintained that the question is irrelevant because neither answer is correct. The press is establishment, oriented to centrism and authority, whoever happens to be holding office.
Judge Whittaker submits formal resignation
Nye County Sheriff’s deputies were forced to perform a cutoff maneuver during a traffic stop last week.