Orovada News

We see mile-after-mile of Lonely Highway - vast but beautiful vistas that seem to trail off into nowhere.

Faraway woes - severe flooding in the nation's Corn Belt in June, a severe drought in Russia that's greatly reduced that country's wheat production - could spell financial trouble for Nevada's cattle ranchers, says an agricultural specialist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

After Nevada's worst grasshopper infestation in up to 20 years hit last summer, ranchers and agriculture officials are bracing for a return of the insects next year.

They cheered the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 Americans on April 19, 1995, according to witnesses who testified Friday in the trial of the father and son accused in the deadly Woodburn bank bombing.