Just a week after polls closed in Nevada’s primary election, a group affiliated with the national Republican Governors Association is launching a $2 million television and radio ad campaign skewering Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak on economic issues.
“Right in the heart of the golden west,” Cattlewomen will host this year’s parade with the theme based on our state anthem written by Bertha Rafetto in 1932.
During normal precipitation years, calves in Northern Nevada are weaned at six to seven months of age. In typical spring calving herds, this is usually September through November. However, during drought, forages are generally limited, and early weaning should be considered as a management tool. Time of weaning will have impacts on cow and calf performance as well as health and productivity of the native range or pasture.
On Monday, June 6, the Winnemucca FFA officer team, Cooper Hill (President), Natalie Mori (Vice President), Mesa Brock (Secretary), Jacey Elordi (Treasure), Paris Collins (Reporter), Dante Cassinelli (Sentinel), Hannah Thompson (Historian), Jennifer Montero and Rebecca Hill (Advisors), visited the rural schools in Orovada, Kings River and Denio to help the elementary kids plant flowers and trees.
The Rose Creek area, located approximately 10 miles from Winnemucca, is home to sweeping expanses of desert land, but will soon be home to the Rose Creek RV Adventure Park, as soon as 2023. The Nevada 95-80 Regional Development Authority the Humboldt County Chamber of Commerce held the Nevada 95-80 RDA Connection Brunch, sponsored by AT&T, on June 21 and Dean Pearson of Reno — a Land Developer and Home Builder — presented preliminary details about the new RV Adventure Park that he and his business partner, Rich Bunting, are planning to construct on 270 acres off the Rose Creek and Highway I-80 junction.
Local law enforcement officials found main suspect in murder and attempted murder case at Raven’s Bar, Ty Victor Albisu, deceased by self-inflicted injuries on June 21 in Humboldt County. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) and Winnemucca Police Department (WPD) confirmed that there is no longer a danger to the community and that Albisu is the only suspect in the murder of Linda Walker Albisu, 61, and the attempted murder of Dylan Hobbs, 21, on June 18, on account of witness and victim statements.
The Nevada Supreme Court has cleared the way for Eureka County irrigators to move forward with a contested groundwater plan, issuing a 4-3 ruling last Thursday that could have significant implications for the way water is managed in dozens of aquifers across the state. The majority opinion is a win for irrigators in Diamond Valley, just outside of Eureka, who voted in 2018 for a groundwater plan that aims to address years of over-pumping. State officials, for decades, allowed irrigators to pump more than twice the amount of water that is sustainable.
The attack ads already are airing and campaign fundraising emails are flooding into inboxes as one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country gets rolling in Nevada, where candidates will be juggling persistent concerns about election integrity and inflation that is rising at its fastest pace in decades.
For the most part, many aspects of life are completely back to normal, but the world is still adapting to a post-pandemic attitude and many have grown weary of the suggestions from medical professionals that are still concerning to the community.
The James Kinney Pond, located off of Rinehart Lane, recently received some valuable upgrades just in time for the annual Kid’s Fishing Day, which took place on June 25.
The Primary Election for Humboldt County has officially wrapped up and at the County Commission Special Meeting on June 24, the Board was updated by Humboldt County Clerk Tami Rae Spero and Humboldt County Deputy Clerk Jessica Koepke on the final canvass of the election. Officials unanimously approved the motion to accept the canvass, with Commissioner Jim French absent and the rest of the board present. The election turned out 4,298 votes — or 45.37 percent — of 9,473 total registered voters, according to the official Election Summary Report, presented by Spero and Kopeke.
The City of Winnemucca underwent extensive negotiation with both the Winnemucca Police Officers Association (WPOA) and the Winnemucca City Employees Association (WCEA) regarding collective bargaining agreements this past month.
The Humboldt County Board of Commissioners recently voted unanimously to establish a standing on a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA) for a Desert Land Entry (DLE) application in the Denio area, by addressing their concerns in a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Humboldt River Field Office, which released the application for public comment. Chairman of the Board, Jim French, was absent and the rest of the Board was present, with Vicechair Ken Tipton leading the meeting.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) General Manager John Entsminger spotlighted at a Senate hearing conservation programs the agency has implemented to reduce water usage that could help other western states in the face of historic drought. “I think conservation is key here and it plays a great role in the story of what we have done in Nevada,” Cortez Masto said. Her comments came at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday on solutions to the drought raging in the western U.S. Entsminger said Nevada has shown that conservation can help preserve the remaining water.
A federal judge declined Monday to either decide or dismiss a condemned Nevada killer's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state plan for what would its first lethal injection in more than 16 years. U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II left open Zane Michael Floyd's case — at least for now — and set an Oct. 11 date for attorneys representing Floyd and the state to return to court in Las Vegas. The judge said he might still close the matter in coming weeks for what he termed “mootness,'' since state prison officials testified that they do not have the drugs they would need to conduct an execution.