It is a melancholy fact that some folks have no appreciation for industry. I discovered this firsthand when I was ejected unceremoniously from our local Walmart for nothing more than an honest day’s labor. I had finished my transaction at the self-checkout—a marvel of modern enterprise where the customer is both patron and employee, cashier…

It appears the good folks over at the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office have been quite busy of late, catching themselves a heap of non-compliant sex offenders. In “Operation Safe Washoe,” 410 compliance checks, 41 offenders were being fast and loose with the law, resulting in 25 people arrested. The arrests included three charges of Failure…

If ever there were a more lamentable tale of marital discord, it would have to be written in blood and bound in sorrow. As it is, the strange business of Victoria Goodwin, wife of “Ghost Adventures” star Aaron Goodwin, is as peculiar as any specter her husband has ever gone chasing. Aaron Goodwin, well-regarded in…

The Fernley Vaqueros saddled up and rode roughshod over the Sparks Railroaders on Saturday, galloping to a 20-0 victory. It was a runaway affair from the first crack of the bat, and the Railroaders never found the tracks to get back into the fight. That lopsided score sets a new high-water mark for Fernley this…

North Las Vegas bore witness to a spectacle of speed and misfortune Sunday afternoon, the likes of which would make even the most devil-may-care daredevil pause for reflection. At precisely half past noon, the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol responded to a calamity involving two Nissan Altimas, whose fateful meeting upon the Cheyenne Avenue overpass…

Just in Case Anyone Forgot In an act of legislative déjà vu, the Nye County Commission once again took to the grand stage of local government to remind the world—or at least the fine citizens of Nye County—that it has no intention of rolling out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. Resolution No. 2025-08, retrieved…

Virginia City’s softball squad will defend their home diamond for the first time this season when they take on the Wells Leopards at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. If history indicates, spectators should prepare for a slugfest that will keep the scorekeeper’s pencil busy. The Muckers enter the contest smarting from a 23-13 defeat at the…

The desert was in his blood–the kind of man who didn’t just walk the land but belonged to it. Kenny Veach had a love for the Mojave that most men would never understand. Where others saw miles of empty sand and scrub brush, he saw a living, breathing world, alive with movement and history, where…

A helicopter, perhaps suffering from an excess of enthusiasm or a deficiency of common sense, attempted to perch upon an unsuspecting automobile at the North Las Vegas Airport on Sunday night, resulting in what the authorities are delicately referring to as a “crash.” The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ever diligent in its post-mortems of mechanical…

Congresswoman Lee Rides to the Rescue It has long been observed that Nevada is a land of great expanses and small mercies, and nowhere is this more evident than in its physician supply, where a man is more likely to meet a coyote on the road than a doctor in an office. Congresswoman Susie Lee,…