Gabbs News

The Vegas to Reno off-road race -- which will actually run from near Beatty to near Reno -- has been lengthened to 1,000 miles this year in a three-day staged event Aug.

Nye County commissioners will decide what type of construction they want for the new county administration building at the Calvada Eye during a regular meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 7. The meeting can be viewed by videoconference from the Bob Ruud Community Center in Pahrump.

Local legislators may brag the Nevada state budget includes a 2.8 percent increase for education.

The Nye County School District trustees will meet at 6:30 p.m., May 20 and will conduct a public hearing on the tentative school budget for 2009-2010 at 7 p.m. Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Ray Ritchie will present the budget in detail and explain items in the general fund, projected expenditures and revenue streams.

Nye County may not qualify for economic stimulus funds for chip-sealing projects, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could have money for drainage improvements at Wheeler Wash, Acting Public Works Director Dave Fanning said Monday.

Thanks goes to Lahontan Valley Vet for their recent visit to the town of Gabbs for dog/cat/horse vaccinations, check ups, etc.

An application will be submitted for a $195,000 preliminary engineering report on recycling Tonopah effluent, for a second round of $740,431 available in federal community development block grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus package.

Fallon City Police James Patrick Logan, 42, of Lovelock, self employed, was arrested April 8 on suspicion of operating an unregistered vehicle, driving on a suspended license and no proof of insurance and on a warrant, alleging payment of late fees, safety belts required.

A 57-year-old Gabbs woman was arrested on Tuesday morning for killing a Fallon man in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 50 east of Sand Mountain on March 9. Gayle M. Larnin, 57, is charged with driving under the influence causing death and driving left of center in her vehicle before striking the sedan driven by Guy J. Regan, 57.

Douglas County Animal Services is looking for homes for several dogs that were surrendered by a property owner near Topaz Lake.

Heated rhetoric in Carson City over tax hikes, teacher pay Tempers are flaring in Carson City -- and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford finds himself right in the middle of it.

One person died Monday in a collision on U.S. 50 18 miles east of Fallon, the Nevada Highway Patrol reported.

The population of Pahrump dropped 3.6 percent in the last quarter of 2008 according to estimates from the Nye County Planning Department, a loss of 1,390 people from 38,621 residents to 37,231. The Pahrump ...

A year after dozens of orphaned dogs were rescued from a ranch outside Gabbs, some of the canines again had to be rescued from euthanasia and have yet to be adopted.

In May of 2007, a woman named Dama Wirries suffered a fatal heart attack on her 40-acre ranch in Gabbs, leaving behind approximately 150 dogs on what had started out as a canine rescue facility.

CONSTRUCTION LOCATIONS: - U.S. 50, milepost 26.5 to 68, from east of Fallon to State Route 361/Middlegate junction, approximately - State Route 116, milepost 2.5 to 9, from 2 miles east of U.S. 50 junction to ...

Chain requirements for many Sierra and Northern Nevada roads: Interstate 80: Chains required from the Drum exit on the west side of the Sierra to Mogul, from the Mustang exit to the Tracy-Clark exit, from the ...