Battle Mountain News

Chains or snow tires are required for multiple roadways Tuesday evening, the Nevada Department of Transportation reports: Interstate 80 for 28 miles from the Blue Canyon area to Hirschdale Road, from McCaran Boulevard in Sparks to Painted Rock, from Golconda to the Pumpernickel Valley exit, from Battle Mountain to Dunphy and from Elko to Wells.

Miranda Gold Corp. announces results from the Iron Point drill program, a project under an exploration funding agreement with White Bear Resources Inc.

Roy Eriksen has done and continues to do many things for others. The Sparks resident has been a teacher and football coach at five high schools.

The Nevada Department of Transportation has issued the following road conditions/restrictions, effective 5 p.m. Friday.

All routes are open with no controls with the following exceptions on Saturday night, the Nevada Department of Transportation reported: IR80: - Chains required except for four wheel drive vehicles for 51.2 miles between Nyack California Exit 156 and California State Line.

After being away since her high school graduation in 1995, Carrie Baker has returned to her hometown to open up Mason Valley Physical Therapy.

BARRON-CARDENAS: To Rita of Reno, a son, Dec. 1, 2009. FRANCISCO: To Lloyd C. and Destiny A. of Reno, a son, Nov.

Robert Eugene Hall, 70, and Tammy Lynn Lyle, 49, both of Reno. James Michael Wade, Jr., 28, and Denisha Pillar Taylor, 27, both of Fernley.

The Churchill County Clerk's Office issued the following marriages licenses Oct.

Three Nevada laws should have prevented Charles Messoria from driving drunk again.

H1N1 vaccine is even harder to come by in rural Nevada. Recent clinics in both Winnemucca and Battle Mountain saw huge demand that even surprised the public health nurse who ran the clinic since most of the comments she got beforehand weren't positive.

At his 15-acre turquoise mine in Battle Mountain, Nevada, jeweler Robert Grey Kaylor flips over jagged stones to check for the tiniest fleck of robin's egg blue, a teardrop in the arid desert terrain.

The Churchill County Clerk's Office issued the following marriages licenses Sept.

Tribune/Debra Reid - John Regan of Get Built Construction nails together a new retail center at the corner of Pyramid Way and Greenbrae Drive.

Investigators are looking into a trail derailment in Humboldt County west of Battle Mountain.

Authorities in Humboldt County are investigating a train derailment that occurred about 12:15 a.m., near Battle Mountain.

Miranda Gold Corp. has staked 122 unpatented lode claims in the Roberts Mountains in Eureka County, Nevada approximately 26 mi northwest of the town of Eureka.

Two of the three core holes at Ice will provide high quality samples for: verification of historic drill assay results near KR-001, a reverse-circulation drill hole with 95 ft of 0.117 oz Au/t from 20 to 115 ft ; and direct observation of alteration, structure and lithologic patterns in the gold-bearing host rocks.

Reno-based General Metals Corp. announced the discovery of new gold and silver at Battle Mountain's Independence Mine.

The United States has reached a settlement with ranchers in a longstanding dispute over livestock trespasses on public lands in Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nev., the Justice Department and Bureau of Land Management announced today.