Nye County News Archives

A resolution waiving permit fees for a solar hot water heater program by Valley Electric Association is on the agenda for the Nye County Commission meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

For the past 13,000 or more years, Nye County's history has been shaped mostly by its geography -- large and magnificent, to be sure.

Nye County sheriff's deputies believe they're taking an important new step in finding out what happened to a local woman who went missing 3 years ago.

A truck carrying concrete rolled over Tuesday morning on a rural Nevada highway in northeastern Nye County, killing the driver, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

AARON SCHULTZ /SPECIAL TO THE PVT Former Nye County Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos and his public defender, Tom Gibson, listen to Judge Robert Lane during sentencing Monday.

Beatty has now arrived in the 911 age, Milan Dimac, manager of information systems, told Nye County commissioners Tuesday.

Nye County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested a man this week, accusing him of lewdness with a 12-year-old girl.

A 57-year-old Pahrump man accused of molesting 10 children faces additional charges after Nye County sheriff officials say he tried to intimidate and bribe a victim's mother into preventing her child from showing up in court to testify against him.

Authorities say a 57-year-old Pahrump man has been arrested for allegedly molesting 10 children.

A former Nye County commissioner has been sentenced to five years of probation on a felony bribery conviction, plus three-year probation terms to run concurrently for two related misdemeanor charges.

Nye County Police have arrested 57 year old Samuel Hamett of Pahrump on child molestation charges.

The old Calvada sign at the corner of Highway 160 and Calvada Boulevard in Pahrump will be retrofitted into a new Nye County sign with an electronic message board.

Rory Reid, in his recently published vision document , sets forth as one of his major goals the pursuit of data center businesses to relocate to the Silver State.

Nevada Country Music Association, Nye County and the Lions Club will be partying in Honeysuckle Park starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow morning.

We are at a crossroads to our future. Nye County has the opportunity to become a center for solar power technology and development.

Thursday, eight co-conspirators in the forgery ring broken up by the Nye County Sheriff's Office two weeks ago appeared in Pahrump Justice Court before Judge Kent Jasperson.

Stan Davis, vice-president of the Calvada Meadows Aeropark Association, remarked, "I don't think there's a town in the county except Pahrump that doesn't have a public access airport." A Pahrump public airport has been in the planning stages for 10 years.

Fire Fest 2009, held last Saturday at the Amargosa Valley Community Center, should net $6,800 to go towards a new fire department water tender, Fire Chief Lon Fuller said.

Pahrump resident Vincent Matthew Czechorosky, 24, suspected of committing two convenience store robberies, was arrested early Wednesday morning after leading Nye County Sheriff's deputies on an extensive car chase that ended up in the playground parking area at Honeysuckle Park.

Authorities in Nye County have arrested a Nevada corrections officer in connection with two armed robberies at a Pahrump convenience store.

A Nevada corrections officer is under arrest for armed robbery and for trying to run over Nye County deputies.

SPECIAL TO THE PVT This computer chip board has been skimming credit card information at gas pumps at the Shell station on Highway 160 and Winery Road.

Nevada ranks third in the nation when it comes to people being victimized by identity theft, according to Federal Trade Commission.

Las Vegas gets a taste of fall weather today, as temperatures climb this afternoon into only the high 70s - a dramatic drop from the last few days.

"If you don't know where you came from, you're not going anywhere." - Guiding philosophy of the Pahrump Valley Museum There are two principles that ordinarily have more to do with success than anything else.

A man is dead after being ejected from his SUV when it drifted off the road, rolling several times Tuesday Night.

A 225-bed Pahrump jail could be built at the existing jail site on East Basin Avenue at a cost of about $22 million, to be paid off using $1.9 million in annual interest from the county endowment funds, consultant Ira Cotler, of Correctional Finance and Consulting Solutions told Nye County Commissioners Tuesday.