Battle Mountain News

A self-described candidate for Harry Reid's U.S. Senate seat in Nevada may be ending his campaign, but not on his own accord.

A man who says he intends to run for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has been arrested in Lander County.

We hear that Gov. Rounds and the Legislature are facing a tough budget year. Things wouldn't be so tough if they were more careful with spending our money.

A Battle Mountain Films production in association with Spring Creek Prods. Produced by Claire Rudnick Polstein, Paula Weinstein, John Wells.

A Nevada woman is scheduled to be arraigned next month on 42 counts of animal cruelty in a case state agriculture inspectors said is one of the worst they can remember.

Tribune file/Debra Reid - An open mining pit, hundreds of feet deep and named the Fortitude Pit, seen from the air in 2005, is part of the Phoenix mining project now owned by the Newmont Gold Corp.

Dr. Greg Myers, Ph.D. has been appointed the new President and CEO of Caza Gold, effective January 18, 2010 and Jim Robinson, B.Sc. has been appointed the new Vice President, Exploration, effective February 1, 2010.

In one of the worst cases they can remember, Nevada agriculture officials have cited a woman for animal cruelty for neglecting more than 100 barnyard animals, including 35 starving horses and a goat that died from eating wool off a sheep carcass.

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.