Lander County News

Taxable sales in Nevada plunged 24.1 percent in August, marking that 10th straight month of double-digit declines, the Nevada Department of Taxation reported Wednesday.

After having the second-lowest unemployment rate for the prior month--and leading the state the rest of the year--Lyon County has moved into a tie for the highest unemployment rate in Nevada for August.

A Nye County commissioner has appealed a U.S. Forest Service decision to close motorized access to national forest roads not included on maps under a new travel management plan for the Austin-Tonopah area in north central Nevada.

Nevada Division of Environmental Protection officials said a forgotten pesticide container site in Antelope Valley never posed a danger to nearby residents but that the site should now be cleaned up 'as a precaution.' 'There is no threat to the public health or the environment,' wrote Allen Biaggi, director of the Nevada Department of Conservation ...

In this farming community about 50 miles south of Battle Mountain, rusted steel pesticide drums lie abandoned on the desert floor above a dump where decades of toxic refuse lie buried in shallow trenches.

Driver inattention is being blamed for two accidents that killed two people Thursday in rural Nevada.

Driver inattention is being blamed for two accidents that killed two people Thursday in rural Nevada.

David A. Bilbao Our beloved Dad and husband, David A. Bilbao, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 17, 2009, at his new home in Tenmile, OR.

About $3 million in federal stimulus money will allow the largest U.S. national forest outside Alaska to complete a variety of trail and campground projects.

ELKO, Nev. - Barrick Gold of North America is shutting down one of two mills at it's Goldstrike Mine in Elko County on Aug.

Elko County authorities are taking precautions after two jail inmates tested positive for swine flu.

Levon Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has arranged a Non-Brokered Private Placement of 6,500,000 units at a price of $0.16 per unit for gross proceeds of $1,040,000. Each unit consists of one common share and one half non-transferrable share purchase warrant.

Mining company buys Nevada land for Western Shoshone Great Basin Gold Ltd. purchased 3,629 acres of land along Rock Creek Canyon in Nevada's Lander County and retired mining permits on the ground to set the land aside for the Western Shoshone who consider the land sacred.

VANCOUVER, May 14 /CNW/ - TSX VENTURE COMPANIES AFRICAN QUEEN MINES LTD. BULLETIN TYPE: Private Placement-Non-Brokered, Amendment BULLETIN DATE: May 14, 2009 TSX Venture Tier 2 Company Further to the bulletin dated May 12, 2009, TSX Venture Exchange has been advised that the disclosure of Bridgewater Pension Trustees Ltd.