WINNEMUCCA - Hycroft General Manager Warren Woods spoke to Humboldt County commissioners Aug. 5 about last month's layoff of 115 Hycroft employees.
RENO - University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will host a workshop in Reno on Aug. 20 to provide information on agricultural economic trends and financial assistance available to mitigate drought impacts on Nevada's agricultural producers.
CARSON CITY - Northern Nevada communities are set to reap the rewards of the Western Nevada State Peace Officer Academy's 2013 graduation class. Twenty-two cadets were honored last week at Western Nevada College.
RENO - Steven Angus is having one of those years. First the Fallon resident drew a deer tag in Nevada's annual big game draw. Then recently he received a phone call informing him that he had won a $1,000 gift card for getting his application in early.
VERDI - The Nevada Department of Wildlife captured a black bear in Verdi early in the morning of July 23 in the Gold Ranch area of Verdi. The bear was captured in a culvert trap set near a residence where the 6- to 7-year-old male bear was doing some damage to property. The bear weighed an estimated 325 pounds and had never before been handled by NDOW.
CARSON CITY - Whoever said the early bird gets the worm clearly never hunted for big game in Nevada. The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) wants to remind sportsmen that unless you do your homework before the hunt, a worm might be the only thing you do get.
LOVELOCK - Water quality is important in maintaining water consumption of cattle. Physio-chemical (pH, total dissolved solids, hardness, and total dissolved oxygen), organoleptic (odor and taste), compounds present in excess (nitrates, iron, sodium, sulfates, and fluorine), toxic compounds (arsenic, cyanide, lead, mercury, hydrocarbons, organochlorides and organophosphates) and bacteria are criteria for evaluating drinking water for humans and livestock.
WASHINGTON - The European Union will continue to provide U.S. beef producers with significant access, at zero duty, to the EU market for high-quality beef produced from non-hormone-treated cattle, according to the USDA.
CARSON CITY - The Bureau of Land Management, the Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Nevada Department of Corrections on Aug. 3 hosted the third of four annual saddle-trained horse adoption events at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Gardnerville, Nev.
CARSON CITY (AP) - Nevada tax officials say the state will have to spend money before it can make money from a new tax on the sale of medical marijuana.
WINNEMUCCA - Humboldt General Hospital Emergency Medical Services has had a contract to provide emergency medical services for the Burning Man counterculture event.
WINNEMUCCA - The 4-H Show and Sale happens just once a year, but the skills youth learn will last them a lifetime.
LOVELOCK - The Pershing County Library has friends, Friends of the Library that is. The library auxiliary group has been with the library since it opened in 1970, according to Friends of the Library member Dianne Drake.
LOVELOCK - The swift response of the Rye Patch and Lovelock Volunteer Fire Departments kept a vehicle fire from spreading to the dry desert.
LOVELOCK - The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) has scheduled a two-day upland game hunting season for youth hunters 15 years of age or younger. The dates for the youth hunt are Sept. 28-29.