Nye County

The body of a well known paraglider from New Zealand has been recovered from a mountainous site in a remote part of Nevada, a sheriff said Monday.

The Nevada Department of Transportation has started work on a $17.1 million, 32-mile upgrade of U.S. Highway 95 from roughly 12 miles north of Beatty to 4 miles south of the Nye/Esmeralda County line.

It wasn't really a surprise, but it was disappointing nevertheless.

Officials in Nye County are hoping to get approval from Nevada's COVID-19 Mitigation and Management Task Force to open up all drinking establishments.

Nye County will begin accepting applications Tuesday, September 8th for a small business grant program designed to help businesses deal with the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Nye County received the lone nod from Nevada regulators Thursday afternoon to reopen select bars, taverns and wineries under new guidelines put in place due to the pandemic.

The head of a new state coronavirus compliance review panel says decisions will be made Thursday about whether bars and other businesses will be allowed to reopen just hours later in Nevada’s two largest metropolitan areas and four rural counties.

Nevada officials say they are developing plans to lower the possibility of contracting the coronavirus in six, high-risk counties that include the cities of Las Vegas and Reno.o.

The Nevada Department of Transportation has awarded a $17.1 million construction contract to Road and Highway Builders LLC to improve a 32-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 95 in Nye County.

Eight Nevada counties, including Clark, have been flagged by the Nevada Health Response team for elevated transmission levels of coronavirus.