The evacuation of a senior care facility was one of several emergency service calls for local first responders.
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Over the last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of watching my irises in bloom. Their fragrant flowers delight me and draw me outdoors. Now their blooms are fading, and it is time to turn my attention to flowers that will bloom in our summer heat.
For the past three years, the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce has organized and operated the Pahrump Fall Festival.
In keeping with CDC guidelines and the governor’s stay at home order, the Beatty Town Advisory Board met Thursday, April 9 via call-in conferencing. Chairman Dick Gardner had to join the town secretary Carrie Radomski at the town office for the meeting because of technical difficulties. All other participants joined from home.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Wednesday, April 15 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $20 million.
What’s delicious, nutritious, hearty and filling, incredibly economical, feeds a crowd and makes awesome leftovers? Those dried beans you bought when you were stocking up for the quarantine! Who knew it’d take a global pandemic for us to rediscover the bountiful beauty of beans?
Nevada’s congressional delegation is united in being disappointed with the U.S. Small Business Administration’s updated Paycheck Protection Program guidelines as they pertain to gaming operations.
Like civilians knitting their bit on the home front during World War II, thousands of makers all over the world are crafting handmade masks to help protect their family, friends and front-line workers from the invisible, insidious virus, COVID-19. In and around Pahrump, efforts range from a highly organized volunteer team that hit the ground running as a brand-new nonprofit, to a one-woman endeavor in an isolated Tecopa bungalow. From Girl Scouts to grandmas, together they’ve turned out thousands of colorful masks, sewn from supplies they had on hand or purchased with their own funds, and donated them free of charge to anyone in need.
Kinross Gold Corporation, the owner of Round Mountain Gold Mine, one of the largest employers in Nye County, said that there were no recorded cases of COVID-19 among its employees to date.
The Director of Emergency Management in Pahrump provided an update on the COVID-19 outbreak in Nye County.
An additional activation of the National Guard is the second during the COVID-19 response, as Sisolak had called 106 on April 6, two days after the state’s major disaster declaration was approved by President Donald Trump. Those guardsmen stood up donation management and supply distribution operations.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Tuesday announced he is instructing the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to backdate all unemployment insurance claims to the earliest date of eligibility to help thousands of Nevadans gain easier access to unemployment insurance benefits.
With the COVID-19 crisis causing a steep dip in the economy, Nye County is striving to project exactly what impact the pandemic will have on its financial situation in the coming months and into the next fiscal year.
Gov. Steve Sisolak will give an update on COVID-19 testing at 5 p.m. on his YouTube page.
Nye County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bryan Cooper returned home after a stay in the hospital following being shot several times in the line of duty on March 25 in Pahrump.