Its task is complicated, though, by technical questions about the plan, lingering fights over Yucca Mountain, and by suspicions in some circles over its motives. Created in 2009 by five Northern Nevada businessmen, the group envisions creation …
Another $ 10 million is made available for work at the Nye County site, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Nye County would receive $ 5 million from the total for repository-related activities. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., chairman of the House energy …
In response to the May 8 editorial, “Yucca lives?” The thrust of your editorial is correct. The nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain is required by federal law and is not dead. But you portray the lawsuits against the Nuclear Regulatory …
The Caliente native would become district attorney of Esmeralda County and also serve as a Clark County commissioner, but his most notable political contests were a pair of losses to Rep. Walter Baring, the conservative Democrat who opposed …
A Nye County official who landed in hot water last year for making racist comments about Hispanics has been fined $ 5,000 for violating state ethics laws. The Nevada Commission on Ethics issued the penalty last week to Nye County Assessor Shirley Matson for …
WASHINGTON — South Carolina’s governor is protesting the Obama administration’s planned termination of the Yucca Mountain Project, including asking the state’s attorney general to “pursue every legal action possible” to stop the shutdown. Gov. Mark …
A Pahrump man wanted on a felony warrant led authorities on a two-state, high speed chase Friday that ended near the Amargosa Opera House, the Nye County Sheriff’s Department reported. The chase began around 7:40 a.m. on Highway 373 in Amargosa Valley when …
NEW YORK — U.S. solar developers are luring cash at record rates from investors ranging from Warren Buffett to Google and KKR by offering returns on projects four times those available for Treasury securities. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. together …
Gov. Brian Krolicki plan in April and May to take three road trips: one to the Black Rock Desert area in Northern Nevada, the second to Fort Churchill in central Nevada and the third to Rachel and the Extraterrestrial Highway (U.S. 93) area in Southern Nevada.
Larger school districts, such as Clark County, receive less in guaranteed support than those in tiny districts, such as Esmeralda County, which has fewer than 100 students. In the current year, the Legislature appropriated an average of $ 5,263 per student.