Today marks the centennial of the arrival of the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely: a transportation corridor of steel rails four-feet, eight-and-one-half inches wide-connecting the early, twentieth-century, White Pine County frontier with the transcontinental railroad system.
LAS VEGAS - Three weeks of contentious hearings are now under way to decide whether Las Vegas may suck water from a giant aquifer below the arid Great Basin to slake its growing thirst.
CARSON CITY -- Hours before the start of a state hearing on the Southern Nevada Water Authority's plan to tap groundwater in White Pine County, the U.S. Department of Interior agreed to drop its protests against the $2 billion project.
By Henry Brean By HENRY BREAN REVIEW-JOURNAL CARSON CITY - Hours before the start of a state hearing on the Southern Nevada Water Authority's plan to tap groundwater in White Pine County, the U.S.
