Vera Skips Bail!! Fugitive Again!!!
Montego Bay bandit Tony Vera is once again back on the lam after failing to appear for sentencing in Elko District Court Monday. “I don’t think anyone was really surprised…
Famous Rifle Found In Great Basin Natl Park
Perhaps over 100 years ago but not before 1882 someone perhaps a hunter or a miner left a prized Winchester 1873 rifle against a tree in what would become The…
Ex-Elko DA Gets Wrist Slap For Battery
Former Elko District Attorney will not be going to jail much to the disappointment of local crooks in Elko County. In a pleabargain with Prosecuting attorney Michael Bongard Michael Bongard…
Trespass Call Leads Cops To Drug Bust
A call about an ‘unwanted’ person turned into a big drug bust at the Montego Bay Casino Monday night. According to WWPD reports officers were called to remove an Osvaldo…
WWHS Scholars Battle In Ely, 1-1
The West Wendover Wolvering Academic Olympic Team got off to a strong start this season in Ely going 1-1. The Academic Olympics were begun in 1980. In the competition teams…
These Are The Days
Soon construction equipment will begin rolling east and rolling west as Newmont begins to mine a mountain of gold in the Pequops range. We are excited about as any resident…
BLM Public Land Auction
ELY–The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District is proposing to offer for sale two adjacent 40-acre parcels of public land near South Industrial Way, about 2 miles north of…
Accused Child Rapist Gets $800,000 Bail
A Spring Creek girl is safe and more or less sound after allegedly being sexually abused by her step-father. “Sometime in Friday evening the girl told her mother that she…
Local Boys Join West Wendover Police Dept.
Wendover used to import its police officers and most of its criminals from out of town until West Wendover Police Chief Burdel Welsh went local in hiring the last two…