Lincoln County News

Virgin Valley Water District's legal counsel has made arrangements to retrieve public documents of the district associated with litigation between Vidler Water Company and the state engineer.

A restaurant, bar and a casino were expected to be open by January. The first homes within the Calvada boundaries were expected to be under way early in 1972.

Advocates and opponents of a plan to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas from three valleys in Lincoln County are headed for a showdown in the Nevada Supreme Court.

The Virgin Valley Water District needs to protect its resources, which is why it is a protestant in an appeal concerning water permits in Lincoln County, the district's manager and hydrologist said Tuesday.

The state's top water regulator has decided to join the Southern Nevada Water Authority in an appeal of a recent court ruling that dealt a blow to the authority's plans to tap groundwater in three Lincoln County valleys.

"This is really exciting," said Reno attorney Jim Smith. "He's one of Nevada's great historians, great authors, great thinkers." Smith was one of 80 people gathered in the meeting house at the Bartley Ranch Park.

Seven Southern Nevada law enforcement agencies plan to step up patrols for those driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs this Halloween weekend.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority's plan to pipe water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas has taken a hit from a Lincoln County judge.

Nevada lawmakers have authorized spending $9.6 million in federal stimulus funds on energy-efficiency projects in rural counties.

For the moment at least, the Southern Nevada Water Authority has lost the water it hoped to pump to Las Vegas in the first phase of its proposed pipeline across eastern Nevada.

Snow could be bringing more water to the area in the future. The Southern Nevada Water Authority says their new plan will create snow near Elko expected to trickle to Lincoln County and be pumped to southern Nevada from there.

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work.

LAS VEGAS - Water officials in southern Nevada hope to wring a little extra water from the sky this winter by reviving a cloud-seeding program that appeared doomed by state budget cuts.

It was an awards ceremony 100 years in the making. Six Nevada ranches, all family-owned for a century or more, were honored at the Centennial Ranch and Farm awards ceremony recently hosted at the Governor's Mansion and three of the ranches are in Churchill County.

Hal Keaton of Pioche has been elected state president of the Retired Public Employees of Nevada.

Savvy Nevadans know to slow down outside Alamo because of the notorious speed trap awaiting the unsavvy.

Nevadaa s unemployment rate in August was a stunning 13.2A percent, the second-highest in the nation behind Michigan.

Gary Reese is conflicted between his love of Lincoln County and his job as a Las Vegas city councilman.

Early federal stimulus spending in Nevada will benefit rural counties more than urban ones and doesn't target counties experiencing the state's highest unemployment rates, according to a Reno Gazette-Journal analysis of American Recovery and Reinvestment data.

PANACA There's big doings in Panaca this weekend, more than doubling the town's population of 645.