Goldfield News

More stories by this author... Read 1 reader submitted comment The past century was akin to that fictional space/time described by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities .

The local NV Energy business office will close after today , meaning there will be no more walk-in service for customers to pay their electrical bills there.

In August 2009, the Obama administration strongly pushed forward its goal to place 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by 2015 and remake the U.S. automotive industry at the same time.

As a Reno native, I was surprised the Sept. 27 article on the Riverside Hotel failed to mention gaming pioneer Nick Abelman, especially since he ran the casino, corner bar, dance bands, etc., from 1934 to 1949, longer than anyone! He leased it from George Wingfield on a handshake.

There are few landscapes in the United States lonelier than that of western Nevada.

The Winners Corner locations on Main Street and on Goldfield Ave. in Yerington are under new ownership, after they were sold earlier this month by Terrible Herbst, Inc.

The federal government has settled a civil suit with a Nevada rancher over grazing violations.

Harry Reid is majority leader of the U.S. Senate, meets regularly with the president in the White House and controls the fate of bills coursing through the world's most powerful legislative body.

ED VOGEL GOLDFIELD, Nev. a ' "Elizabeth? Are you there, Elizabeth?" Virginia Ridgway asks quietly as she walks slowly into Room 109 of the long-closed Goldfield Hotel.

'WILL ROGERS never met Harry Reid," says the sign over the bar at the Santa Fe Saloon in the small town of Goldfield, Nevada.

It was once the biggest city in the Wild West. But after a deadly fire in 1923 and more than 85 years of neglect, all that is left of Goldfield, Nevada, are a few falling-down buildings, some rusty mining equipment and 200 or so die-hard residents - who complain when the daily 7.45am rush-hour involves more than seven cars.

In his keynote address at the Nevada Press Association's annual convention in Winnemucca last weekend, retired state archivist Guy Rocha summed up the current economic crisis with an ominous assertion.

Walking tour season is over for the Historic Reno Preservation Society, but the group has two fall programs planned on maps and Basque art.

The Churchill Arts Council will present a conversation with photographer, Lee Brumbaugh on Sept.

** Last Thursday evening the store of J.F. Moody at Mina took fire and was destroyed.

Lake Tahoe regulators have sued a wealthy Nevada rancher and businessman, accusing him of performing illegal excavation work and other environmental violations at his lakefront property.

The designation of Goldfield as a national historic landmark wouldn't be a draconian measure depriving locals of their property rights, a county commissioner and historical society member said this week.

Senator Harry Reid's fondness for Nevada mining camps is no secret. He was born in one -- the tiny town of Searchlight, Nevada.

Lake Tahoe regulators have sued a wealthy Nevada rancher and businessman, accusing him of performing illegal excavation work and other environmental violations at his lakefront property.

The 2009 Nevada Boomtown Conference will take place in Tonopah Aug. 5-9 and will focus on Central and West Central Nevada.