Battle Mountain News Archives

Cyclist Sam Whittingham "uncorked a good one" to set another world record at the HYDrive World Human Powered Speed Challenge Sept.

FERNLEY--Local rodeo contestant Kersean Abatti placed first in goat tying at the Douglas County Junior Rodeo.

The Desert Valley Times has been named the state's top newspaper in its circulation category by the Nevada Press Association.

An annual human-powered speed contest in northeastern Nevada ended with record setting performances by recumbent bicyclists from Canada and France.

A plan to build a private ski and golf resort, which includes the old Gilman mining town, was recently taken over by a Philadelphia-based private equity firm Who are these guys? Company: Lubert Adler Real Estate Funds.

Here's a list of top awards in the 2009 Nevada Press Association "Better Newspaper Contest," announced Saturday at the association's annual convention: General Excellence First Place: Class I - Las Vegas Review-Journal. Judges' comments: "Good organization, good use of typography.

Canadian cyclist Sam Whittingham broke his own record at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, this week.

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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.

Free wood from BLM available to cut Northern Nevadans can heat their homes with free wood offered by the Bureau of Land Management's Mount Lewis Field Office in Battle Mountain this winter.

Miranda Gold Corp. announces that its exploration funding partner Montezuma Mines Inc.

Don't call it Ginnturn any more. Florida-based developer Bobby Ginn has given up his stake in a proposed private ski resort at Battle Mountain.

TRAVEL IN NEVADA AAA predicts a 6 percent decrease in Labor Day travel in the Mountain West area that includes Nevada.

Students have returned to class at Great Basin College, and the state of the art Academic Success Center will officially open for student tutoring the day after Labor Day, Tuesday Sept.

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.

Small lakes mark the locations of ancient volcanic craters on the top of 52 Ridge in Wells Gray Park.