Goldfield News

A new thrift store has opened in Yerington at which you are sure to find something to take home, whether you came in looking or not.

Special to the PVT Christmastime, complete with an early 20th century "pin-up" and fine wines in the dugout dwelling occupied by Josiah Irving Crowell at his Chloride Cliff mine.

Years ago, a woman from Goldfield told me about a place in central Nevada that she said deserved to be a state park.

Plans are continuing for the annual community Fourth of July celebration but Soroptimist International of Yerington organizers are seeking additional vendors and donations for the fireworks show.

A group of local historians and authors will present their knowledge of Goldfield history and tales of ghosts and hauntings at the Goldfield Community Center July 10 and 11.

The Soroptimist International of Yerington is again making plans for the annual Community Fourth of July Celebration in Yerington, with donations being sought to support the annual fireworks display.

Tailing piles and ruins are nearly all that remain of the historic mining town of Delamar in Eastern Nevada.

Direct democracy empowers the rich Last week there was an election in California and no one seemed to find it strange.

The site commonly referred to as the "Cow Camp," Ron Metheny's 40-acre private spread in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, was long a popular getaway for Pahrump residents for the monthly chuck wagon barbecues on the weekend nearest the full moon.

When we last told you about LAND OF CANAAN here , Producer Linda Craddock was discussing the film as a piece of a slate she had cooking.

Spooks and evil spirits? You don't have to believe in that stuff to love a good ghost story.

Pandemic viral disease is back in the headlines. This time it's not Ebola, SARS, or bird flu, but swine flu.

One of the most fascinating activities that I enjoyed while living in the desert years ago was ghost town hunting.

Local resident Mike Patterson was chosen to appear as a "celebrity chef" in ads for the Nevada Commission on Tourism and its Silver Trails territory.

By the Fernley Preservation Society FERNLEY--The Fernley Preservation Society has a variety of rolling stock on display at the Fernley Depot including several cars awaiting restoration whose history is related ...

Born Josephine Reed in Arkansas in 1873, Josie Pearl braved every hardship and met every challenge of the mining frontier in her 89 years.

Despite the myth, no one was lynched at Piper's Opera House in Virginia City, and Mark Twain never made it onto the stage of the current opera house building.

Business has been dying on the vine on rural Highway 95 in Nye and Esmeralda counties, where houses of prostitution have been among the only businesses for long stretches of desolate road.

In conjunction with the Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival and Fallon's Centennial celebration, professional boxing came to town in August with seven featured bouts.

Veteran Nevada state Archivist Guy Rocha has announced his retirement plans, saying he doesn't want to oversee the possible gutting of his agency because of the state's budget crunch.