Nye County News

A juvenile boy, age 16, was arrested by juvenile authorities after the Nye County Sheriff's Office received reports of an intoxicated person driving at excessive speeds on State Route 160 early Monday morning.

Ana Dimas, 19, was fatally injured and her two passengers sent to University Medical Center after her 1993 four-door green Honda rolled over after veering off the roadway.

One man was arrested after it was discovered he had allegedly broken into someone else's RV and had been staying there for several days last week.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10054 on Homestead observed the holiday with an annual service at Chief Tecopa Cemetery on West Street in Pahrump on Monday.

The Nevada Highway Patrol says a 19-year-old Nye County woman is dead and two passengers are hurt after a pre-dawn Memorial Day crash on a highway northwest of Las Vegas.

The Nevada Highway Patrol says a 19-year-old Nye County woman is dead and two passengers are hurt after a pre-dawn Memorial Day crash on a highway northwest of Las Vegas.

Kiran Hill speaks Wednesday during a Republican primary debate in Pahrump for the 4th Congressional District.

Stakes are high when thieves target Nye County's old and abandoned mining sites looking for valuable metal.

I recently had to buy a copy of "Huckleberry Finn" at a bookstore because the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District does not have an adult edition of the classic.

An airplane flying over the homes of Nye County residents in September may be taking 3-D photos that can be used by anyone from the assessor's office to sheriff's department SWAT team.

The first, which occurred more than a half-million years ago, was the discovery of the controlled use of fire.

Nye County Commission Chairman Lorinda Wichman got the support of her board Monday to pursue a county lands bill, hopeful it won't be tampered with by environmentalists once it gets to Washington, D.C. Wichman had memories of a White Pine County bill, which was sponsored by U.S. Sens.

It's been seven years since three Pahrump properties were declared nuisances by Nye County commissioners, but code compliance officer George Bernath said they still haven't been cleaned up yet.

A $5,000 per month proposal by Kaempfer, Crowell attorneys at law to lobby for Nye County at the state level was rejected by a 3-2 vote of Nye County Commissioners Monday.

Canamex Resources Corp. is pleased to announce it has contracted to re-commence drilling on the Bruner gold-silver project, located in Nye County, Nevada.

Chris Brown didn't get any support from Nye County commissioners Monday for the Contour Phase II project, the theme park they already pitched to the Pahrump town board titled Adventure Springs.

A 31-year-old man has been indicted in two states on federal charges of sextortion and cyber stalking of young girls; one of whom is a minor living in Nye County.

The embattled chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission resigned this week.

A 31-year-old Florida man was indicted on federal charges last week related to exploitation and cyberstalking of several girls, including one from Southern Nevada, the Nye County Sheriff's Office said Monday.

The subject of Tyler Coyner's salutatorian speech to his Nevada high school classmates two years ago was how people can learn from their mistakes.