Elko County News

ELKO, Nev. - A report by the Nevada Division of Minerals said 1,054 new abandoned mine hazards were discovered statewide in 2008, while 586 known hazards were secured.

However, the sheriff's office has decided not to investigate... THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE VICTIM OR HER WELL-BEING. NO HINT OF HER MATTERING AT ALL.

At his 15-acre turquoise mine in Battle Mountain, Nevada, jeweler Robert Grey Kaylor flips over jagged stones to check for the tiniest fleck of robin's egg blue, a teardrop in the arid desert terrain.

The U.S. Agriculture Department has announced more than $16 million in grants and loans for nine rural water projects, including one in northeast Nevada.

We drive or walk by them every day. The former school house that serves as an arts center, the unusual museum, the gingerbread mansion, the tiny railroad depot.

Authorities in Elko County are considering filing criminal charges against the father of a 5-month-old baby who apparently suffocated after being left alone in a car.

I know this is Whitetail365, but I also know you guys appreciate a good mule deer story when you see one.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is revising a proposal for an expansion of an outreach clinic in Elko.

In the fall of 2008, visitors to the town of Almere, Netherlands, found a remarkable sight in a grassy lot in the town center - an exact replica of the Lincoln School archway found in the ghost town of Metropolis.

The Winecup-Gamble Ranch is about a million acres in size. Plans to use a million-acre ranch in northeastern Nevada once owned by the actor Jimmy Stewart as a wild horse sanctuary have been rejected by officials.

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons and his wife met with lawyers and a judge for several hours Wednesday in private courtroom talks aimed at averting a divorce trial.

Elko County school trustees are getting a pitch from a California company that says it can help the district save $5.8 million in energy costs over the next decade.

Officials at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho say Nevadans have nothing to fear about a plan to expand the base's airspace deeper into their state.

Elko County commissioners have reaffirmed their opposition to a proposed wild horse refuge at the Winecup-Gamble Ranch north of Wells.

A Fallon woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for spitting on two police officers after two earlier arrests for the same charge.

A Fallon woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for spitting on two police officers after two earlier arrests for the same charge.

The Elko County sheriff's department says the body of a West Wendover man who was reported missing last month has been found.

The Nevada Army National Guard has commissioned four lieutenants who recently completed the military's Officer Candidate School.

The Nevada Highway Patrol says officers discovered 52 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop near Elko.

A North Carolina man was arrested Thursday afternoon near Elko after a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper found 52 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle, the NHP said.