Ely News

We received a video link from Mark Easter of MUFON that features witness testimony regarding a cigar-shaped UFO seen in the Rail Road Valley of Nevada.

The Nevada Supreme Court decided unanimously today to terminate the parental rights of a mother to her 4-year-old Ely daughter who is part American Indian.

An Ely City Councilman whose wife is chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Reno has been implicated in the disappearance of money from a bank where he worked, White County Sheriff Dan Watts said.

For those of you who enjoyed a snow day Monday, I hope you took some time to surf www.sncat.org . For those of you who braved the elements, think of Sierra Nevada's Community Access Television's Earl Spriggs who bikes to work.

How crazy-cool would it be to legally drive full-throttle down a long stretch of desert highway with nothing to stop you except the limitations of your vehicle? You can find out for yourself twice year.

A NV Energy plan to build a transmission line from Ely to Las Vegas has cleared another step toward its approval.

A Sept. 13 trial date has been set for an Ely woman charged with open murder in the death of a friend.

White Pine county authorities say an inmate on death row for a Las Vegas murder has hanged himself in his Ely prison cell.

For quite some time now England has played host to orange lights traveling the night sky.

Here's a series of Tweets I sent from the first forum in the 2010 Senate race as nine GOP candidates gathered at the Railroad Pass Casino: First 2010 U.S. Senate debate with GOPers in Henderson about to start.

A member of the Aryan Warrior street gang was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for convictions on racketeering and assault charges, U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of Nevada said.

The mayor of Ely in eastern Nevada foresees a day when the mines that give employment to residents of his small city begin petering out.

Nevada's long-standing common sense argument against Yucca Mountain has been that the state doesn't even have a nuclear plant, so it would be patently wrong to force it to be the nuke dump site for the rest of the nation.

Overview From the web site: Golden Predator's corporate mandate is to establish a self-funded gold exploration company with an immediate focus on exploring for and developing world class gold deposits in the Yukon's Tintina Gold Belt.

When I began my new career at Channel 8, it only seemed natural to me that I should cover Rural Nevada.

"I don't know how we met each other. I don't know who got along with whom first.

The sparse environment of the Ely prison courtroom is so far removed from the life Rick Tabish once had, it might as well be another solar system.

To realize renewable energy's potential, Nevada needs transmission lines. Two utilities want to build them, but at what cost to customers? Leila Navidi NV Energy wants Public Utilities Commission approval to build a transmission line, with towers similar to these west of Hoover Dam, from outside Las Vegas to Ely.

A truck carrying concrete rolled over Tuesday morning on a rural Nevada highway in northeastern Nye County, killing the driver, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

Construction of White Pine County's first commercial wind turbine farm could begin as early as next summer and bring up to 200 workers to the rural area, project officials said.