Ely News

Navy Seaman Ian C. Lester, son of Jeffery Lester of Ely and Kelly Muller of Vernal, Utah, has completed basic training at Recruit Training Command, Ill.

The rival businessmen who had struck a deal. The towering construction equipment as backdrop.

In this file photo taken May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama stands with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at a fundraising event in Las Vegas .

These notes from a trusted source on the ground at the Ely Lincoln Day breakfast.

Magnuson Hotels, the world's largest independent hotel group, announced today the complete rebranding of the Best Western in Ely, NV.

A 19-room Best Western here has rebranded itself as the Main Motel - An Independent Magnuson Hotel.

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.