Elko County News

The Nevada Transportation Department has met a deadline for seeking bids for $70 million in road projects, ranging from highway repaving to historic V&T Railway work and an antelope and deer overpass, being funded by federal stimulus dollars.

Mormon crickets are once again on the move across northern Nevada, but an expert with the state Department of Agriculture predicts the bug problem should be far less than years past.

CARSON CITY a ' Gov. Jim Gibbons, facing a complaint that he abused his position to get a tax break on land he owns in eastern Nevada, told a state Ethics Commission investigator he didn't press for the break and was prompted by "merely curiosity" to ask about it.

A record $23 million-plus in federal payments is heading to Nevada counties this year to help offset losses in property taxes due to nontaxable federal lands within their boundaries.

Outgoing Councilman John Tewell thanked Mayor Ken Tedford Jr. for the time they served together at the city.

After seven years of planning, a Churchill County juvenile detention facility is scheduled to break ground on North Broadway Street in November.

A motorcyclist has been killed in an accident at South Fork Reservoir in Elko County.

A former professional hunter for the U.S. government in Nevada claims in a whistleblower complaint he was fired in retaliation for reporting that two co-workers illegally shot two mountain lions from an airplane in 2006.

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Photo by Mark McLaughlin Looking east into Nevada, a temperatures range from extreme cold to incredibly hot.

A chase, a bomb threat, a shooting and an interstate shutdown; it all happened in Wells, Nev., Wednesday afternoon.

The Fallon High School rodeo club rides on this season, with recent participation in the Elko, Wells and Douglas High School rodeos.

AuEx Ventures, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an exploration license and option to lease agreement with Nevada Land and Resource Company LLC covering approximately 73,000 acres of fee land and mineral rights and, in addition, has staked unpatented mining claims covering approximately 23,440 acres all in the vicinity ...

Lyon County Sheriff's Office is one of nine Nevada county law enforcement agencies to receive a portion of $935,300 in grant funds awarded to the Nevada Department of Public Safety.

Major details from Thursday's state Gaming Control Board's report on March 2009 winnings by Nevada's casinos: -STATEWIDE: $918.2 million, down 11.6 percent.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved Barrick Gold of North America's request to expand its Goldstrike Mine in northern Nevada.

Elko County Undersheriff Frank "Rocky" Gonzalez has resigned following an internal investigation into undisclosed personnel issues.

ELKO -- Newmont Mining Corp.'s Midas Mine in Elko County is back in production. Federal regulators allowed the underground gold mine to reopen last week after crews tunneled out a bypass around a ground failure that prompted its March 10 shutdown.

Okay, now let me get this straight. The woman who has some believing she wields the most power in southern Nevada, the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the female water czar, Patricia Mulroy, really pays attention to what a retired weekly newspaperman, a hick from the sticks of northern Nevada, has to say? And she cares ...

The residents of this tiny town, anticipating an imminent attack, will be ready with a perimeter defense.