BATTLE MOUNTAIN - After being shut out of the state championships all together a season ago, the Battle Mountain High School boys golf team is back in the state tournament after its performance at the Division III North Championships on Wednesday, May 8, in Elko.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Battle Mountain High School track and field team had a handful of athletes qualify for the NIAA State Track and Field Championships presented by the Farmers Insurance this Friday and Saturday at Silverado High School in Las Vegas.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Battle Mountain High School baseball team is returning to the state tournament after an absence of a couple of years.
LAS VEGAS - ESPN Regional Television, a subsidiary of ESPN, and the Las Vegas Bowl have announced that the 2013 game will be played Saturday, Dec. 21, at 12:30 p.m. at Sam Boyd Stadium.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Austin High School's Emily Young qualified for the NIAA State Track and Field Championships this weekend at Silverado High School in Las Vegas.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Lander County Convention and Tourism Authority will be holding a geocaching event on June 15 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to showcase the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Shoshone Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) trail.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Eleanor Lemaire Elementary School Principal Amy Nelson and Alan Hooper, of Western Educational Consultants, Inc., gave a presentation to school board members at the May 8 Lander County School Board meeting on the MindPlay reading intervention program.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Jacob's Well hosts youth bingo every third Thursday of the month, which is free for youth 12-18 years old.
WINNEMUCCA - A rattlesnake avoidance clinic will be held in Winnemucca at the 4-H arena at 1085 Fairgrounds Road on Sunday, June 9.
ELKO - Dorothy S. Gallagher, a regent who represented rural Nevada for more than 28 years, has died at the age of 87.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Battle Mountain High School recently completed an extensive self-study as required by the Northwest Accreditation Association. 
ELKO - The project area for this gather and removal of wild horses is from within and outside the Triple B, Maverick-Medicine, and the western and central portions of the Antelope Valley Herd Management Areas (HMAs), according to a BLM news release.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District, issued a decision to approve the operations plan for the Cove-Helen Mine.
TONOPAH - Back in 1900, a prospector named Jim Butler struck silver while searching for his lost burro in the area that soon became Tonopah, Nev.
SPARKS - Deanna Stever, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest geologist, was recently recognized by the Forest Service's Cave and Karst Coordinator for her exceptional leadership in cave and karst management. (Karst refers to landscapes characterized by caves, sinkholes, sinking streams and underground drainage.)