WINNEMUCCA - This was a Paradise Valley landmark. Built out of stone with a vaulted ceiling, it was totally unique. It was the Cellar Bar. The man behind the bar is Joe Gartiez. His patron, standing at the bar, was long-time Paradise Valley rancher Pete Ferraro.
WINNEMUCCA - Seven Lowry High School students spent a week repairing homes belonging to strangers and touching the lives of others in very meaningful ways.
CARSON CITY - The Nevada Division of Forestry would like the public's help determining how widespread and severe the white satin moth, Leucoma salicis, infestation is in northern Nevada.
WINNEMUCCA - The Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District Office plans to implement a temporary closure and temporary restrictions of certain activities on public lands immediately surrounding the site of the 2013 Burning Man event.
AMES, Iowa - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will accept 1.7 million acres offered under the 45th Conservation Reserve Program general sign-up.
WINNEMUCCA - Area athletes took full advantage of the chance to get a free physical examination from Humboldt General Hospital on Saturday, July 27.
SPARKS - The Nevada Department of Agriculture's Animal Disease and Food Safety Laboratory has detected additional cases of West Nile virus in northern Nevada.
LOVELOCK - Halogeton is an annual weed that is poisonous to sheep and cattle. It was first observed in the United States near Wells, Nev., in 1934.
WINNEMUCCA - This weekend, one of the few remaining legal street drag competitions in the United States returns to Traders Way - a normally quiet Winnemucca street.
CARSON CITY - The Bureau of Land Management will meet with the Sierra Front-Northwestern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council on Aug. 8 at three locations via video conference.
ELKO - A free Chautauqua on 19th century mountain man Caleb Greenwood will be presented by Frank Mullen at the California Trail Interpretive Center at 2 p.m., Aug. 10.
CARSON CITY (AP) - Nevada households are expected to spend a combined $221 million on back-to-school supplies this year, down from about $245 million last year.
WINNEMUCCA - The Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District's Humboldt River Field Office will begin an emergency gather on Aug. 2 to capture and remove 200 excess wild horses from the Blue Wing Complex area west of Lovelock. 
DALE HARTLEY • Special to the SunNevada Department of Transportation crews are chip-sealing a 14-mile stretch of U.S. 95 south from the Oregon border. Dave Lindeman, asst. engineer for the Winnemucca NDOT district, said the work should wrap up next week. Until then, prepare for delays.
CARSON CITY - Steven Weaver has been hired as a conservation specialist for the State Conservation Districts Program.