White Pine County News

Sales of tangible goods by Silver State businesses jumped to $3.9 billion in the month, a 7.2 percent increase from $3.6 billion in March 2011, the state Department of Taxation reported Tuesday.

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.

Tribal leaders from Nevada, Utah and California blasted the federal government Wednesday for failing to protect them and their cultural heritage from a plan to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas from across the eastern part of the state.

The National Weather Service is warning that the dry windy weather blowing into Nevada on Thursday will create critical wildfire conditions across most of the state south of U.S. Interstate 80.

Great ranch and recreational retreat in White Pine County adjoinging the Elko Co.

First it was tiny fish. Now anti-development extremists hope to use snails no bigger than your little fingernail as cat's paws to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority plan to pipe groundwater here from east-central Nevada.