WINNEMUCCA - The Hemophilia Treatment Center (HTC) of Nevada will hold a special clinic in Winnemucca on April 18 for those affected by inherited bleeding and clotting disorders and those who suffer with easy bruising, frequent nosebleeds or heavy periods.
COURTESY PHOTOThe Kingston Volunteer Fire Department was given $2,000 from Battle Mountain General Hospital, making the hospital the department's first corporate sponsor. Hospital CEO Phil Hanna showed up at the Kingston Volunteer Fire Department's fifth annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner to present the check to Fire Chief Jerry Simoni. Pictured (left to right), Assistant Fire Chief Adam Greenfield, Assistant Fire Chief Bradley Ward, Hanna, Simoni, and hospital trustee Pat Brickley.
WINNEMUCCA - Are you the type of hunter who would hate the opportunity to hunt one of four premium big game species (antelope, elk, mule deer or Nelson (desert) bighorn) anywhere in the state where there is an established season for that species?
CARSON CITY - Funds are now available to help rural small businesses and agricultural producers improve energy efficiency or install renewable energy systems.
CARSON CITY - State Treasurer Kate Marshall announced recently that her office and the Nevada College Savings Board is sponsoring the fifth annual Nevada $529 College Savings Day Contest, which is open to all Nevada Kindergarten through fifth grade students.
CARSON CITY - State Treasurer Kate Marshall is inviting women across Nevada to learn how to take better control of their money and family finances by attending the 2nd Annual 2013 Nevada Women's Money Conference, sponsored by her office in cooperation with the International Association of Working Mothers.
CARSON CITY - State lawmakers heard passionate arguments Friday over a measure that ends the prohibition on recreational marijuana use in Nevada and funnels the tax revenues toward the underfunded state education system.
SAN DIEGO - The Internal Revenue Service recently offered 10 quick tax tips to taxpayers with days remaining before the 2013 tax-filing deadline. Those who need more time to complete their returns should submit their requests for an automatic extension electronically or by paper on form 4868 by April 15.
LAS VEGAS - Nevada drivers are experiencing relief at the pump, as gas prices continue their journey downward for the fourth consecutive week, according to the latest AAA Nevada monthly gas survey.
AUSTIN - Long before the Internet, the Lincoln Highway began connecting us 100 years ago when it became America's first paved coast-to-coast road for the automobile paralleling many parts of the Pony Express route.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - On April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lander County Community Health, among many local partners and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will give Lander County residents their first opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Lander County has been ranked number four healthiest in the state in the Health Factors portion out of 16 counties in Nevada (Esmeralda County was not ranked), according to the fourth annual County Health Rankings, released recently by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Students at Battle Mountain elementary schools celebrated Nevada Reading Month March 11 - 21. The theme for this year was "Read it! Dream it! Do it!"
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - University of Nevada, Reno President Dr. Marc Johnson tried to reassure Lander County commissioners that the proposed reorganization of the university's Cooperative Extension program to bring it under the same leadership as the College of Agriculture will not combine the two programs.
ELKO - A 170-acre prescribed fire is planned for multiple days between April 15 and 19 on public land near the Izzenhood Ranch approximately 24 miles north of Battle Mountain.