An underground miner for the Midas mine was found unconscious and unresponsive April 28 around 11:30 a.m.; he was later pronounced dead at Humboldt General Hospital.
Christ Lutheran Preschool celebrated National Lutheran Schools Week recently. This year's theme was "Lutheran Schools: Raising Up Faithful Disciples." The preschool staff planned several special activities to celebrate and honor Pastor Mark Kliewer, parents, students, board of education members, volunteers, and staff.
CARSON CITY - Nevada has one of the nation's highest childhood hunger rates, according to a new report from the advocacy group Feeding America.
Come celebrate local agriculture and support Agriculture Education programs with the 9th Annual GBC Agriculture Student Organization (Aggies) Dinner and Concert on Friday, May 9, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Western Folklife Center in Elko.
Marigold employees donated clothes to the Family Resource Center with a value of approximately $4,000.
CARSON CITY - The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners voted in their January/February 2014 meeting to allow bighorn sheep ewe hunting at the recommendation of the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW). The first ever ewe hunt was a decision of last resort based on several factors of bighorn sheep management. Bighorn sheep are now facing issues of overpopulation.
Statewide taxable sales for February 2014 of $3,513,981,631 represent a 4.6 percent increase over February 2013. The largest increases in statewide taxable sales were realized by Food Services and Drinking Places, up 10.2 percent; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing, up 104.0 percent; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers, up 6.2 percent; Rental and Leasing Services, up 21.7 percent; and Non-Store Retailers, up 58.9 percent. The following major sales indicators represent changes in Nevada's economic activity for February 2014 compared to February 2013:
CARSON CITY - Governor Brian Sandoval, in conjunction with the Department of Business and Industry, recently announced the State has kicked-off the Nevada Home Retention Program.
RENO/LAS VEGAS - Nominations are being accepted through May 30th for extraordinary volunteer efforts of Nevadans throughout the state. Finalists selected will be recognized at the Governor's Points of Light Awards Ceremony, an official 150th Anniversary event on Sept. 18, 2014 at Bally's Las Vegas Nevada.
ELKO - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will meet with the Northeastern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC) at 8 a.m., Thursday, May 15, at the Battle Mountain District Office, 50 Bastian Road, in Battle Mountain. A field tour of the Ormat's McGinness Hills geothermal power plant and surrounding area will begin at 8:45 a.m. The public and media are invited to attend.
CARSON CITY - Immunize Nevada and the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health gathered today at the Carson Tahoe Women's Health Institute for a press event to educate Nevadans about Text4baby and to encourage expecting and first time mothers to do something for themselves this Mother's Day and enroll in Text4baby.
Great Basin College is offering a Wildland Fire Training Academy on May 27 through June 1. All classes meet or exceed the federal standards as outlined by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG).
May is the birthday month for legendary Battle Mountain teacher and school principal, Mary Scott Black. Born on May 30, 1881, the third of 10 children, Black was a native of Wisconsin and attended the Wisconsin State Normal School. When she graduated in 1906, booming Nevada communities had begun advertising all over the country for teachers. She taught briefly in her home state, but by 1912, she had responded to one of those ads and was employed in Ely.
LAS VEGAS - Searchable salary data for over 128,000 Nevada government employees, for the 2013 calendar year, is now available at TransparentNevada.com, a website operated by the Nevada Policy Research Institute to make government spending transparent to taxpayers.
RENO - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced continued progress during the first 90 days of implementing the Agricultural Act of 2014 (the 2014 Farm Bill), which President Obama signed into law on Feb. 7. The 2014 Farm Bill reforms agricultural policy, reduces the deficit, and helps grow the economy.