A lucky local playing at the Pahrump Nugget took home the biggest win of the month when he hit a royal flush and won $20,000 on a $5 bet playing video poker on Saturday, Feb. 26.
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About 985 Nye County workers remain unemployed, according to the latest workforce figures, which show Nevada has overall surpassed 1.5 million jobs and has largely recovererd any positions that it lost during the pandemic.
The bar formerly hosted drink specials on “Topless Tuesdays” and “Bottomless Wednesdays” where bartenders and others were known to strip down to the bare essentials.
Ambulance downgrades, delayed 911 calls, and 24-hour work shifts are all part of the work culture for local first-responders, union members say.
The Pahrump Holiday Task Force has just one mission, that of bringing the community together for holiday celebrations throughout the year, and with Easter less than a month away, the nonprofit group is gearing up for its next big shindig.
The program is geared toward first-time homebuyers, or those who have not purchased at home in the last three years and provides up to $16,000 in down payment assistance to finance the purchase of single-family units, townhomes, condos and manufactured homes. The minimum credit score for the program starts at 640.
The Pahrump parents of the child have been charged with child abuse and neglect. Deputies say they contacted a social worker to investigate and found conditions in the boy’s home unsuitable for him and the seven other kids who lived there.
A Pahrump man is accused of abusing the 911 emergency line after he falsely reported that he had been involved in a police shoot out, according to a Nye County Sheriff’s Office report.
Veterans of Pahrump Valley learned about the resources and services available locally to them at the 6th Annual Cles Saunders Memorial Veterans Extravaganza.
Nye County is updating its Hazard Mitigation Plan — how you can get involved.
For more than six decades, the Nevada State Engineer’s Office has collected revenue from a special levy on all taxable parcels in the Pahrump Valley but last year, Nye County officials took a stand against the assessment and declined to approve a resolution necessary to authorize the collection of that special levy.
Members of Pahrump Valley Firefighters IAFF Local 4068 are calling for Pahrump Valley Fire Rescue Chief Scott Lewis to resign — or face being fired — citing a 56-point list of health, safety and mismanagement concerns drafted by local union members. The union has now expressed two votes of “no confidence” in their leader.
Fields of ephemeral wildflowers aren’t expected this year at Death Valley, but the nearby national park’s rock-solidly stunning geology never takes time off.
These teens designed a model that helps parents detect some common disguises behind today’s “designer drugs.”
Poof-dirt is causing issues after leaking water line repair there, according to a dozen in the south Pahrump master-planned community.
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