Austin News

The Edgewood Companies, for donating $8,250 to the Austin Kirby Foundation, the largest benefactor of Austin's House, an emergency shelter in Carson Valley providing services to children from rural Northern Nevada who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect.

Nevada has one of the lowest inmate recidivism rates in the country, but that may be because some end up in California prisons after their release here, a correctional expert said.

BORASKY RECALL: Secretary of state denies appeal The Nevada Secretary of State's office Wednesday denied Recalls R Us' appeal of its decision to strike 76 names from a recall petition on Nye County District 4 Commissioner Butch Borasky.

Experience the Old West in these Silver State locations. Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park Highway Contract 61, Box 61200 Austin, NV 89310 964-2440 : Fossils of the huge marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs, which swam in the ocean covering Nevada 225 million years ago, abound in this park.

In 1973, Jim Andersen and his wife, Marlys, began a quest to find a new place to live, out of the tumult of life in Antioch, Calif.

ELKO - A Nye County commissioner has appealed a U.S. Forest Service decision to close motorized access to national forest roads not included on maps under a new travel management plan for the Austin-Tonopah area in north central Nevada.

The NTSB has issues a preliminary report in the August 20th accident in which an Air Tractor engaged in a firefighting mission crashed, killing the pilot.

Miranda's interest was drawn to the area through a generative program evaluating a number of district-scale stream-sediment anomalies whose character has an affinity with large sediment-hosted gold districts in Nevada.

Bette Dodge was born in Austin, Nev. to Anna and Frank Cochran and at the age of four settled in Reno, Nev.

Job openings aren't plentiful in Las Vegas and the city certainly isn't known for having a high volunteerism rate.

Members of the public are encouraged to attend a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. today in the Wooster High School cafeteria, 1331 E. Plumb Lane.

Through song and dance, members of the Great Basin tribes continue to pay their respects to the same animals that inspired reverence in their ancestors.