Pershing County News

A Winnemucca woman who was a passenger in a Ford crew cab pickup was killed Friday in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 80.

A multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 80 killed one person Friday. NHP photo A Major Accident Investigation Team spent Saturday looking into the cause of a fatal multiple-vehicle accident that occurring on westbound Interstate 80 at about 12:18 p.m. on Friday during a wind storm that produced gusts of 59 mph in Fallon.

An 18-year-old from Winnemucca died Monday when the 1993 Jeep Cherokee he was driving rolled on Interstate 80 about 30 miles east of Lovelock.

One person is dead along Interstate 80, the victim of a rollover. It happened around 7pm Monday near Rye Patch in Pershing County, northwest of Reno.

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We drive or walk by them every day. The former school house that serves as an arts center, the unusual museum, the gingerbread mansion, the tiny railroad depot.

With new test results showing one out of four homes in Nevada with elevated levels of radon, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension officials are urging all homeowners to have their homes tested for that gas.

The keeper would not open the door so the officers broke in. At the crash, all lights were extinguished to give the habitues a chance to escape.

Some state lawmakers Thursday questioned the proposed disbursement of federal stimulus money for school energy efficiency programs, saying equal amounts to Nevada's 17 school districts is disproportionate.

Its fans say it's been a valuable natural sciences teaching tool. Its critics say it's a health and safety hazard.

Lindsey Ball and Jamie Palotia each had 10 kills and eight digs to lead McQueen past visiting South Tahoe in five games on Tuesday night.

Authorities say the 2009 installment of the annual Burning Man festival in the northern drew a smaller crowd to the northern Nevada desert than in 2008.

The 14th annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival runs from noon to 5 p.m. Sept.

Yellowcake Mining Inc is pleased to announce the signing of a letter of intent to enter into an Exploration Earn-in agreement with AuEx Ventures Inc., for the Trinity Silver property, located in Pershing County, Nevada.

One of eight air tankers fighting a wildland fire 45 miles northeast of Fallon crashed Thursday afternoon, killing the pilot, reports the Bureau of Land Management.

One of eight air tankers fighting a wildland fire 45 miles northeast of Fallon crashed Thursday afternoon, killing the pilot, reports the Bureau of Land Management.

A recent Smithsonian magazine article featured Depression-era paintings. The piece explained that in 1934 unemployment was at 25 percent and as the Federal Emergency Relief Act began to put dollars in the pockets of hungry workers the status of artists came into question.

Quite a bit of federal stimulus money designed to spur construction projects, promised by the Obama administration to spur the stalled economy, has been delivered to the Nevada Department of Transportation.

Lovelock sits astride Interstate 80. Its hospital, Pershing General is the only medical care between Reno and Winnemucca, a literal lifeline to anyone injured on the roadway or anyone in this small community with a medical emergency.

Four years ago today, the spillways at Rye Patch Dam gushed water, the reservoir above it was full, the river below a broad deep current.