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ELKO — Judicial filings closed on Friday with an incumbent and newcomer on their way to six-year terms as Elko and Carlin justices of the peace.

Commissioners asked Caleb McAdoo, deputy director of operations for NDOW, to come back with more details on why the agency needs 120 acre-feet, which amounts to about 39,102,172 gallons.

Elko County Planning Commissioner Mark Wetmore said in the letter to commissioners: “Spending taxpayer money to fix something that isn’t broke doesn’t make much sense to me.”

Many events and decisions made in 2023 will spill over into the new year. Several commissioners, and others, are up for election in 2024.

In the 19th century, the federal government, looking to boost railway construction across the relatively undeveloped West, offered railroad companies an incentive: Expand the rail lines and receive alternating sections

A billionaire landowner is proposing a land transfer with the federal government that would consolidate hundreds of thousands of Elko County acres, concerning public land users.

ELKO – County commissioners rejected bids for remodeling a fire station in Spring Creek to house the Elko County Ambulance Service along with fire trucks because the bids were too

ELKO – Great Basin College President Joyce Helens told the Elko County Board of Commissioners that “there was never a plan to merge” with the University of Nevada, Reno, but

ELKO – Elko County school trustees rejected all bids for the planned food science lab project at Spring Creek High School after they came in far above the school district’s

ELKO – Nevada Gold Mines is hoping the U.S. Bureau of Land Management releases the final environmental impact statement on the Goldrush underground project at the end of this month,