Tough economy or not, politics never sleeps in Nevada. Just watch as candidates hustle to raise funds and gouge eyes in their attempt to fill the 2nd Congressional District spot vacated by Dean Heller following his appointment to the U.S. Senate seat …
WASHINGTON — Early in 2008, then-Sen. John Ensign put in place a document-shredding program for his office staff. Around the same time, he approached his chief of staff about communicating by text messages rather than email. The Nevada Republican also …
http://www.lvrj.com/news/document-deletions-got-ensign-in-trouble-121985478.html
It has only been a couple months since the Nevada Department of Transportation stripped the desert along the Extraterrestrial Highway of its hidden treasures. But that apparently is enough time for high-tech hunters to label our state geocaching unfriendly.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/hunters-angry-with-removal-of-geocaches-on-e-t-highway-119997649.html
A big solar-power project in Nye County moved a step closer to construction Monday. Power developer SolarReserve said the federal Bureau of Land Management has signed off on its Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project near Tonopah. The plant would generate 110 …
http://www.lvrj.com/business/solar-power-project-closer-to-construction-in-nye-county-112236494.html
Fifteen of Nevada’s 17 counties saw gains in taxable sales in November. Only Lyon County, home to construction-reliant bedroom communities near Reno, and Esmeralda County, an area halfway between Reno and Las Vegas that houses fewer than 1,000 residents …
http://www.lvrj.com/business/nevada-taxable-sales-continue-increase-114731274.html
WASHINGTON — The only lithium mine in the nation is expanding in Esmeralda County. Twenty new jobs already have been created either by Chemetall Foote, the mine operator, or by contractors at the production plant at Silver Peak, the company said. During …
http://www.lvrj.com/business/lithium-mine-expanding-in-esmeralda-county-98397709.html
Embattled Nye County District Attorney Robert Beckett was arrested Wednesday morning on fraud and embezzlement charges in connection with a bank account his office managed for more than 13 years. “This is in reference to the bad check fund,” said Nye …
http://www.lvrj.com/news/nye-county-da-beckett-arrested-92897574.html
Nye County’s elected public administrator resigned from office Sunday, just hours after he was tied up and robbed at gunpoint by assailants who targeted him because they knew he handled valuables as part of his job. Robert Jones was due to leave office on …
http://www.lvrj.com/news/public-administrator-resigns-after-being-robbed-111814194.html
And Aykroyd, a lifetime benefactor of MUFON.com, has visited the town of Rachel on Extraterrestrial Highway and marveled at “real photographs” there of sightings. “These aren’t hoaxes or fakes,” he said. “Dozens of Army officers, police, sheriffs …
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Under that plan, developed before Brandmueller was hired, Clark County, with more than 300,000 students, would receive the same $ 441,176 grant as Esmeralda County, with 75 students. “Most of the schools in Washoe and Clark counties tend to be newer schools …
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