Hawthorne News

By the time you read this, we should be getting past the first of two waves of weather expected across the region this week.

A Las Vegas dentist has been elected chairman of the Nevada Republican Party. Dr. Chris Comfort replaces Sue Lowden, who resigned Sept.

Christmas tree-cutting permits are now available from the Bureau of Land Management office in Carson City.

Christmas tree-cutting permits will be available from the Bureau of Land Management , Carson City District Office, and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

Former Nevada Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran [ bioguide ] is probably best known for his participation in the McCarthy Era witch-hunts as chair of the Senate Internal Security Committee, and maybe even for collapsing on the stage in Hawthorne, NV on September 28, 1954 after delivering a "thundering Anti-Communist speech." [ AE ] " McCarran was ...

The Bureau of Land Management is scheduled to begin gathering up to 167 wild horses from the Garfield Flat Herd Management Area 10 miles southeast of Hawthorne starting Friday.

An intense storm system will impact much of the western U.S. Today into Wednesday.

In an effort to sharpen their aerospace surveillance skills, planes from the North American Aerospace Defense Command will be flying over western Nevada skies today.

Miguel 'Mike' Antonio Segura passsed away on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at Continuecare Hospital in Carson City.

The State of Nevada owns Walker Lake and is not supportive of the transfer of the 'bed and banks' of the lake to the Walker River Paiute Tribe.

NV Energy will close customer-service operations facilities at its Carson City, Elko and Yerington offices as of the close of business on Friday, Oct.

The Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee areas will be under a red flag warning from 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

Submitted Story On Saturday, August 29, at 10:00 a.m., Liberty Bookstore and Office Solutions in Hawthorne will host a free continental breakfast and book signing in honor of Yerington author George Ehly and his book 'The Inner Glow'. The bookstore is located at 425 I Street, Hawthorne.

Their day-one win gave Shock Doctor/Muscle Milk KTM's David Kamo and David Pearson the benefit of being first off the line on day two, and the two factory off-road racers took full advantage of their dust-free day to record another successful stage triumph in the TSCO Vegas-to-Reno off-road race.

Check out the press release: Kevin Yoder took the green flag in the final round of the Nor Cal Rock Racing competition on Saturday August 15th with a win on his mind, but with the Season Series Title clinched.

A man law enforcement says is wanted for alleged crimes in two states and that has appeared on a nationally syndicated television crime show was arrested in a rural Western Nevada town.

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Walker River Basin Acquisition Program has been made available for public review and comment by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and public meeting/hearings on the draft have been scheduled in Yerington on Tuesday, August 18, and in Smith Valley on Wednesday, August 19.

Our metropolitan cousins to the west have launched an aggressive campaign to ticket motorists who do not stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk.

14, 2009. Reclamation is directed in Public Law 109-103 Section 208 to provide funding to the University of Nevada, Reno to acquire from willing sellers, land, water appurtenant to the land, and related interests in the Walker River Basin for the purpose of providing water to Walker Lake.

It's a struggle pitting the future of one rural Nevada community against its neighbor and it begins with efforts to save one of the state's natural wonders.