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BLM’s Nevada boss urges roundup of 4,000 mustangs

Concerned about continued deterioration of drought-stricken rangeland in Nevada, the BLM’s state director wants to round up 4,000 wild horses in Elko County — more mustangs than were gathered across 10 Western states combined last year.

Peter Long named Nevada’s new HR chief

Peter Long, a veteran of state government, was named Monday as administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management.

 
Justices hear proposed ballot measure to repeal state business tax

Nevada Supreme Court justices asked pointed questions Monday on whether an effort to repeal the state’s new business tax is legally sound to proceed in the signature gathering process.

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Shoshone tribal member passes on native language — PHOTOS

Each weekday morning Boyd Graham rises at 4:30 a.m., leaving the Duckwater Shoshone reservation in the vast Railroad Valley to embark on a 150-mile round-trip journey.

Inmates and sagebrush helping to save sage grouse

The future of the sage grouse — a vulnerable game bird facing numerous threats to its existence — soon will benefit from an unlikely source: Nevada prison inmates.

UNR leaders want more guidelines for cheater punishments

Leaders at the two major universities in Nevada don’t seem to agree on how to dish out punishment equally and consistently among cheating students.

Pioneer women reflect on life, friendship in Nevada outback

Lina Sharp arrives, like she always does, with a polite knock, waiting under the stately front-yard elm tree in Tonopah for the familiar face of a cherished old friend.

Former Nevada Sen. Richard Bryan honored with statue at UNR

Former U.S. Sen. and Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan has become only the second person in the history of the University of Nevada, Reno, to have a statue dedicated in his honor at the school founded in 1874.

Congressman introduces a bill to save rural hospitals

Rep. Cresent Hardy said Friday he introduced a bipartisan bill to help save rural hospitals such as the one in Tonopah that closed in August.

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