By Matt Ward A Pahrump Valley High School teacher says that Nye County School District officials covered up irregularities at the district’s alternative school last year that led to students earning diplomas without completing all the required work. Steve Dotson, who worked at Pathways High School for seven years before being bumped out of his[...]

By Kelsey Givens “Guts, glory, unity, trust, survival!” The phrase rings out across the quiet blacktop parking lot of the Nye County Sheriff’s Office in the early morning hours. Seven new cadets stand waiting at attention in anticipation of what’s to come. The police academy has begun. After just one day of class, Cadet Mike[...]

By Mark Waite Three-term Nevada District 36 Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, said he won’t run for the state Senate as planned in this year’s election and is bowing out of politics to run a new farming venture. Goedhart had plans to run for the new District 19 state Senate seat, in which he would[...]

By Matt Ward and Selwyn Harris A trio of high-profile cases came before local judges this week. The case nearest to completion is the ongoing District Court trial of Nicholas James Willing, who is facing multiple felony charges including kidnapping and armed robbery related to the Dec. 10, 2010 home invasion robbery of former Public[...]

By Mark Waite Joni Wines, the first woman sheriff of Nye County who had a colorful term before her recall after only one year in office, died Wednesday in the Lake Tahoe area. She was 85. Wines was a petite, 5-foot, 2-inch woman, who was in the middle of controversies during the Nye County brothel[...]

By Mark Waite Nevada Commission on Ethics Executive Director Caren Jenkins found three out of four ethics complaints filed against Nye County Assessor Shirley Matson to be credible enough to move forward with a hearing in front of a panel of commissioners. The date for a hearing has not been set. Jenkins concluded in a[...]

By Mark Waite Nye County Assessor Shirley Matson is threatening to get an injunction against District Attorney Brian Kunzi for blocking her from firing two employees in the assessor’s office. Matson threatened to file an injunction in an email to the Pahrump Valley Times and to Donna Cox, executive director of the Concerned Citizens for[...]

By Kelsey Givens A woman struck and killed on State Route 160 last week was a mother of five and an accomplished equestrian. She also suffered from mental illness. Julie Bloom, 52, of Arizona, battled with severe schizophrenia for nearly 20 years, her daughter, Andrea Bloom told the Pahrump Valley Times. The debilitating illness likely[...]

“He was a young man after God’s own heart, who laid his life down to help a fellow Marine.” — Tony Allen (Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman’s stepfather) By Kelsey Givens A Marine killed in Afghanistan will be remembered best for his loyalty and love of life, friends and family said. Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman, a 2007 Pahrump[...]

By Kelsey Givens A 60-year-old man was arrested Friday on charges of possessing child pornography after the illicit material was found on his personal computer by a computer repair shop employee. Victor Troutman was taken into custody after Nye County Sheriff’s detectives were alerted to videos and images of children, “engaged in various sexually explicit[...]