The town of Pahrump is preparing to publish its first-ever tourism magazine and Pahrump Tourism Director Arlette Ledbetter is more than a little enthusiastic about the new product, telling the Pahrump Valley Times that “Highway 160 Magazine – Pahrump, Your Basecamp to Adventure” will be a valuable publication for both tourists and locals alike.
A local developer announced plans just last month to construct a new roundabout on Highway 160 — weeks later, the Nye County Commission approved funding to install a second new traffic circle on Pahrump’s main road.
The “Earn While You Learn” program aims to provide better pathways for those interested in rural health care jobs.
It’s time to fish; the die-hards have been at it since the beginning of April. They know the early season is the best.
Incumbent Deborah Beatty, a proud grandmother of 14, started her career in escrow and title work.
Drug overdoses are on the rise in Nevada and state officials are striving to raise awareness about treatment options as well as the potentially life-saving medication Naloxone, which can be used to help reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
The project is an approximately 474-mile system of new 525-kilovolt and 345-kV overhead electric transmission lines and includes transmission and distribution lines, substations, microwave radio facilities, amplifier sites, access roads, and construction/material yards.
The American Red Cross of Southern Nevada and Pahrump Fire and Rescue will join with volunteers on Saturday, May 7 to install about 100 free smoke alarms in Nye County homes.
A recently transcribed book has received acclaim for highlighting a Nye County ghost town and a character that travels back in time to 1907.
Select students at Great Basin College can get certified for in-demand jobs at nearly no cost.
Last year’s historic flooding damaged the park. After a massive clean-up effort, the park will debut a sand volleyball court.
For those who live in or regularly visit the Amargosa Valley, the poor condition of East Amargosa Farm Road has been a source of annoyance for quite some time. The vexation will soon come to an end, with the roadway now set for a paving upgrade.
A proposed lithium production project would push the Nevada Railroad Valley toad — a newly classified groundwater dependent species — out of existence, according to environmental activists and others who aim to protect the amphibians.
The Pahrump Animal Shelter has been run by the nonprofit Desert Haven Animal Society for several years but with a brand new, much larger facility nearing completion, Nye County commissioners ruled it would be best to transition to in-house operations. Here are the plans for the shelter.
There were 16 new cases recorded in Nye County during a two-week period, but hospitalizations from the virus in Nevada are at an all-time low.
