Groundbreaking for the Battle Mountain General Hospital Community Services Center (CSC) was held on Aug. 7.
RENO - University of Nevada Cooperative Extension invites Nevada students to showcase their artistic talents and promote radon awareness by entering the 2015 Nevada Radon Poster Contest.
Humboldt County's largest parade will celebrate two special anniversaries this year: the 93rd anniversary of the Labor Day Parade, and the 150th anniversary of the Silver State.
Around these parts, Labor Day means just one thing: it's time for a fabulous weekend dedicated to some serious, end-of-summer fun.
The Lander County School District announced last month the sponsorship of the National School Lunch and Free Milk Program for kindergarten.
CARSON CITY - Nevada Tourism is hoping travelers en route to Burning Man will yell "Hallelujah!" when they see the tourism division's welcome stations on Interstate 80 and Highway 395 on Aug. 27-28.
RENO - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period on its proposal to protect the Bi-State Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of greater sage-grouse along the California-Nevada border as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal includes a special rule that would provide increased flexibility for land management practices that are intended to benefit the sage-grouse. The additional 30-day comment period was announced in the Federal Register on Aug. 5.
U.S. military veterans and their families have addressed concerns over Veteran's Administration (VA) hospital-provided healthcare since the issue came to light last winter. Concerns over waiting times, canceled appointments and other issues as well as reported "back log lists" and veteran deaths at VA facilities in Arizona, South Carolina, and Wyoming have led to shake-ups in the administration and the resignation of former VA secretary Eric Shinseki in May.
CARSON CITY - USDA Rural Development has announced that extra funding is available this summer to help rural homebuyers purchase a home.
Excited kids showed up at the local library in full swing for Fizz, Boom, Read!, a program designed to get youngsters into the reading mode.
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced a new report showing that as the cost of fighting forest fires has rapidly increased over the last 20 years, the budgets for other forest programs, including those that can help prevent and mitigate fire damage, have substantially shrunk. The Forest Service's firefighting appropriation has rapidly risen as a proportion of the Forest Service's overall budget, increasing from 16 percent in 1995 to 42 percent today, forcing cuts in other budget areas.
As part of the national Newspapers In Education program, The Battle Mountain Bugle is offered for free to any teachers in Lander County to use in their classrooms. Last year and the year before, in Lander County, 11 teachers, some at every school, took part in the program.
The following changes in the discussion draft of the Nevada Sagebrush Landscape Conservation and Economic Development Act were summarized and forwarded by Senator Dean Heller's staff to Humboldt County Commissioners.
WINNEMUCCA - Old time tractors will once again play a leading role in this year's Tri-County Fair and Stampede.
