Wells News

The Nevada Transportation Department has met a deadline for seeking bids for $70 million in road projects, ranging from highway repaving to historic V&T Railway work and an antelope and deer overpass, being funded by federal stimulus dollars.

The US Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 struck near Wells, Nevada Tuesday morning.

City slickers who have spent the past four days moving 200 head of cattle 60 miles through the Nevada desert will roll onto the streets of Reno about noon Thursday to help launch the 90th anniversary Reno Rodeo's 10-day run.

If you whiz across Nevada on Interstate 80, you could go away with an inaccurate impression.

Lane closures and traffic controls went into effect Wednesday on Wells Avenue and Sutro Street near the Reno Livestock Events Center and they will stay in place 24 hours a day through the duration of the annual Reno Rodeo.

A former professional hunter for the U.S. government in Nevada claims in a whistleblower complaint he was fired in retaliation for reporting that two co-workers illegally shot two mountain lions from an airplane in 2006.

Photo by Mark McLaughlin Looking east into Nevada, a temperatures range from extreme cold to incredibly hot.

By Keith Trout The Yerington/Smith Valley High School Rodeo Club members continue to pick up top finishes as they are high in the season standings as the season nears its conclusion.

A chase, a bomb threat, a shooting and an interstate shutdown; it all happened in Wells, Nev., Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities arrested a 27-year-old Elko man after a high-speed chase and a bomb hoax that shut down Interstate 80 for several hours in northern Nevada.

The Fallon High School rodeo club rides on this season, with recent participation in the Elko, Wells and Douglas High School rodeos.

Infrastructure Materials Corp. is pleased to announce the assay results from 4 holes of the 10 hole drill program completed on the Blue Nose Limestone Project.

Representatives from various city agencies and city residents are looking forward to a flurry of activity on Saturday from volunteers who come out to participate in the Roots for Wells project, which will give a major makeover to the residential neighborhood east of Wells Avenue.

Local volunteers will get out their gloves and shovels and plant a hundred trees in residential neighborhoods east of Wells Avenue this weekend.

Enel opens two geothermal plants BY STEPHANIE CARROLL LVN Correspondent Dignitaries and representative from Enel Green Power officially dedicated on Wednesday two new Churchill County geothermal plants which are the largest in the world.

Enel North America opened two of the world's most technically advanced geothermal plants on Wednesday in Stillwater and Salt Wells near Fallon.

Officials today dedicated two new geothermal power plants that will provide power in Northern Nevada to electric utility NV Energy.

Two clerks, one using a baseball bat, thwarted a man with an air pistol this afternoon until police arrived at a convenience store on Wells Avenue.

Legislative hearings often can be dull, but that was hardly the case Tuesday as prostitutes and owners of legal Nevada brothels showed up to tell state lawmakers they support a bill to levy a $5 state tax on sex acts.

Tue, Mar 31, 2009 Four Idaho youths fleeing Nevada law officers in a stolen car during a chase on Interstate 80 were injured _ two of them seriously _ when the vehicle flipped over early Tuesday at a freeway exit on the edge of Elko.