Tonopah News

FERNLEY--Last Wednesday, 15 Nevada Highway Patrol troopers converged at the NHP substation in Fernley to be trained on the use of heart defibrillators.

They climbed the dome at the Capitol and had their photographs taken in a group on the front steps of the Capitol.

Animals and water are two of the most hotly debated issues in Nye County, if not the entire western U.S. Nye County Commissioners made appointments to the new Nye County Animal Advisory Committee last week, ...

You may or may not be aware that Stephens Media not only owns the Pahrump Valley Times, they also own the Tonopah Times Bonanza-Goldfield News.

As a place that has long permitted legalized gambling, legal brothels and 24-hour bars, few outsiders think of Nevada as offering much when it comes to classic churches.

The Nevada State Museum's Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center has a dress worn by Margaret Ormsby, the wife of Major James Ormsby, to the Nevada Territorial Ball in 1861.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Sheila Winn, above, challenges losing J.P. candidate Louis DeCanio, at right, about his allegations of improper vote-counting during the primary election Aug.

Law officers have seized more than 3,000 marijuana plants growing in a remote area along the Nevada-California line about half way between Reno and Las Vegas.

Former Nevada newspaper executive Jack D. King died Friday in a Tonopah hospital.

The Nevada Historical Society's free classic film screening program "After Dark" will show the feature-length film, "The Godmonster of Indian Flats," at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Here's a roundup of history-related lectures, presentations and programs in Northern Nevada this week: after dark film series: The Nevada Historical Society will offer a screening of the 1973 film, "The ...

For a few hours Wednesday evening, National Automobile Museum visitors were partying like it was the summer of 1908.

The population of Pahrump declined for the second straight quarter, according to estimates by the Nye County Planning Department.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture has filed a notice of intent to amend existing regulations regarding cattle, and workshops/hearings have been scheduled for the proposed changes.

Ireland Inc. , a mining exploration and development company focused on the extraction of precious and base metals from mineral deposits in the Southwestern United States, recently announced that the Nevada ...

The Bureau of Land Management is confident it knows why 71 wild horses died at a water hole on a classified military range last July.

A report by the Bureau of Land Management blames the death of 71 wild horses near a Nevada test range on natural nitrates.

It took 17 years for the late rancher Wayne Hage to win a groundbreaking lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service in a long-running dispute over property rights, water rights and grazing on federal land.

ON THE WEB Evaluation of Chemical Data from Samples Collected February 2008 at the Cactus Flat Main Lake Depression and Surrounding Area, Nevada Test and Training Range Desert Research Institute's Final Report, ...

Nitrate poisoning that killed 71 wild horses last year at Cactus Flat on the Tonopah Test Range in central Nevada came from natural sources and not remnants of aircraft de-icing fluids as former workers at an ...