Nellis Air Force Base News

The Air Force club used to be the place on base - every base. There were O-clubs for officers, and E-clubs for enlisted.

A Thunderbird that made an emergency landing at the Quad City Airport Thursday is still sitting outside the Civil Air Patrol building.

Last Tuesday, June 23, 2009, forty boys and girls and their sponsors from the Salvation Army's Boys and Girls Club toured the Perrin Air Force Base Museum located at 4575 Airport Drive, North Texas Regional Airport - Perrin Field.

As the first resort opened in early 1941 on what would become the Strip, the war in Europe heated up.

Here are a few things that have been on my minda . A few weeks ago President Obama visited Nellis Air Force Base where he applauded their 140-acre solar array.

Pararescuemen jump from a HC-130P/N for a high-altitude, low ppening free fall drop from 12,999 feet in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The Nevada Air Force base praised by President Barack Obama for its renewable energy potential wants to shut down a private solar power project, citing potential interference between the project's 600-foot tower and radar used to guide flight training.

Nellis Air Force Base is gaining fighter aircraft and adding more than 300 personnel.

In the Rockies today, a coalition of environmental groups are following through on their promise to ask the United Nations World Heritage Committee to list Alberta's Waterton National Park and Glacier National Park in Montana as endangered World Heritage sites, and environmental groups throughout the United States are asking why President Barack ...

Wed, Jun 24, 2009 No one ever said it would be easy to get a large-scale solar energy industry up and running in Southern Nevada, despite our abundant sunshine.

As state officials considered how much money electric utility NV Energy could recoup for construction of power plants, the power company pulled the plug on a coal-fired power plant that would have been one of its biggest generators yet.

On a vacant piece of land near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, the promise of solar energy has clashed with the demands of military training.

A few years ago a Los Angeles-based firm called SolarReserve had what they thought was a great alternative energy idea: A field of mirrors directs sunlight toward a tower filled with salt.

Federal agents searched a Warsaw, Ohio, home looking for flashlights allegedly stolen from Nellis Air Force Base.

Pararescueman Staff Sgt. Blair Bearny jumps from the back of a C-130J Hercules June 9 to demonstrate a rigged alternate method zodiac, or RAMZ, capability jump into the Caribbean Ocean for members of the Belize National Coast Guard and local media during Operation Southern Partner.

A 4th Fighter Wing officer has been selected to fly with one of the most storied flight demonstration teams in the world.

A development agreement for a condominium timeshare project at Front Sight Firearms Institute is up for approval when the Nye County Commission meets beginning at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Bob Ruud Community Center.

SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. A North Carolina-based jet pilot has been selected to join the Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team.

NV Energy Inc. and American Capital Energy on Thursday announced a long-term purchase agreement for the sale of energy produced from a 20-megawatt DC solar photovoltaic power plant to be built near Searchlight, Nev., 55 miles south of Las Vegas.

Mon, Jun 8, 2009 NV Energy is trying to raise its rates again, and we need to find another source of energy thata s cheap and efficient to help alleviate this problem.