Searchlight News

This week, a mix of news from a few of my beats. Energy NV Energy has agreed to buy energy from Massachusetts-based American Capital Energya s 20-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant to be built near Searchlight.

Most of about 65 Searchlight residents who turned out for a meeting said they don't like a North Carolina-based company's proposal to build 140 tall wind turbines outside town.

When South Carolina Gov. and potential GOP presidential nominee Mark Sanford disappeared this past week, his aides claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Food trucks might be getting run off by brick-and-mortars here and there, but they're also becoming a marketing tool.

Police in Nevada said Friday that a man wanted in the 1994 slaying of a beauty pageant competitor has been arrested in Tennessee.

NV Energy, Inc. and American Capital Energy today announced that they have entered into a long-term power purchase agreement for the sale of energy produced from a 20-megawatt DC solar photovoltaic power plant that will be constructed near Searchlight, Nevada, 55 miles south of Las Vegas.

Fri, May 29, 2009 Searchlight Among the applications the Clark County Commission will receive for Searchlight Justice of the Peace will be that of a retired California Edison power plant supervisor who has been learning the judicial job for the past 2 1/2 years.

At times it was hard to tell who the headliner was tonight at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Sen. Harry Reid has made no secret of his plans to shore up a massive war chest to scare off challengers.

If you recall, in February 2007 the Research Information Network developed a set of seven principles for public policy on scholarly communications.

A teacher accused of drinking before going to work. Parents complained to Action News and now the district is taking action.

Residents of Searchlight voiced their concerns yesterday about putting up a wind farm near the community.

Parents say one teacher's behavior may be putting their child's education at risk.

Sun, Apr 26, 2009 COURTESY OF PUTNAM Sen. Harry Reid has written a 15-page epilogue, "The Obama Era," for his memoir, "The Good Fight." Sun Blogs Politics: The Early Line Sun Topics Sen.

Everyone wants to get into the act. The responses to my request for ideas to replace the banner that hangs above Gov.

Wendell Turner, Justice of the Peace in Searchlight, died Tuesday from complications from a stroke.

Tue, Apr 14, 2009 Reid Commissions Wind Turbine You need to upgrade your Flash Player Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid flipped the switch and Mother Nature provided ample gusts today, turning the statea s first wind turbine to provide electricity to the power grid.

Thu, Apr 9, 2009 Rogers appears in court You need to upgrade your Flash Player Courtesy of Coast Guard Charles Richard Rogers, right, was a petty officer in the Coast Guard stationed in Searchlight in the 1980s.

Q: When is a blog not a blog but a paid political advertisement? A: When it's http://blog.progressnownevada.org/ If you blog in Nevada, and many do, most of the blog editors are known as small, independent ...

Lyon County Manager Dennis Stark has sent letters to rural Nevada representatives for U.S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign asking if they could attend the Lyon County Board of Commissioners meeting on March ...