Day: June 15, 2022

NYE COUNTY SHERIFF: RESULTS NOT FINAL

Challenger Ron Boskovich has a commanding lead over incumbent Leo Blundo for the District 4 seat, while incumbent Debra Strickland is inching toward the 51% mark necessary to claim a clean victory, according to preliminary results of Tuesday’s primary.

Negative campaigning is not unique to rural politics, according to University of Nevada Las Vegas assistant professor Kenneth Miller, who says it represents a dynamic of what’s occurring within each party at a given time.

Tyler Kennedy could face two to 20 years for each of three DUI counts causing death for the U.S. 95 crash that killed three members of an Idaho family.

Kevin Emmerich came before the Beatty Town Advisory Committee at its Monday meeting, asking that they consider writing a letter to the Bureau of Land Management in opposition to one of the alternative routes being considered for the Greenlink West transmission line.

Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly issued a response Tuesday afternoon, following an investigation by the Las Vegas Review Journal into the conduct of Capt. David Boruchowitz. It appears here in its entirety:

Nevada Wine Cellars Inc., which operates the local winery at 3810 Winery Road in Pahrump, reported that it owes more than $1 million to its creditors, including $9,153 to the Nye County Treasurer’s Office, according to a document filed on Jan. 31 in a Las Vegas court.

A Las Vegas man accused of shooting his grandmother in the head and burying her body in two storage containers in the desert has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to a murder charge.

A malfunctioning license plate lamp led to a high-speed pursuit and the eventual arrest of a Pahrump man.

Prosecutors say they will not seek the death penalty for a Pahrump man accused of torturing and shooting Roy Jaggers, the 27-year-old man found dead in Cathedral Canyon on Aug. 1.

Officials hoping to launch Pahrump Valley Academy — the valley’s first public charter school — hosted a virtual town hall on Dec. 4.

Denise Flanagan is an Air Force veteran and a staunch supporter of her fellow former military service members, having a deep understanding of what it takes, and what it can cost, to don a military uniform.

The clock is ticking on Gov. Steve Sisolak’s statewide effort to vaccinate children ages 5 to 11 against COVID-19 before the end of the year.

The Nye County Commission on Thursday will discuss what has become a topic of intense interest and contention in the local community: the proposed Rough Hat Nye County Solar Project.

Fall is in the air and for the town of Pahrump, that means it’s almost time for Pumpkin Days.

U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt made a stop in the valley last week, spending some time at local eatery Mom’s Diner to speak with area residents as he ramps up his campaign for the 2022 election.

Pahrump resident Shauna “Shay” Dragna and her three youngsters, Cayleigh, Caden and Conner, have spent the last month focusing on their very first public philanthropy project and though they entered into the endeavor without any previous experience and absolutely no idea how it might turn out, the results of their efforts are bearing some very positive fruit.

Over the decades, parts of the town of Pahrump have been a choice location for motion picture directors filming Hollywood movies.