Warmer Days, More Crime
While warmer weather may be a relief to most especially after this years exceptionally bitter winter for casinos and police the surest sign of spring is not green buds on…
Postal Cutbacks Hit Area
Post Offices throughout rural Nevada are scaling back hours and or reducing personnel as the financially beleaguered service struggles to make ends meet. In West Wendover the postal staff has…
Driver Beware Elk, Deer Migrating Across Roads
The Nevada Departments of Transportation and Wildlife and the Nevada Highway Patrol are reminding motorists to drive safely in wildlife-prone areas with the upcoming spring animal migration. “A large deer…
Pointing Fingers In Gas Debacle
We were relieved Tuesday that the West Wendover City Council avoided throwing good money after bad when it upheld the kibosh on the Wendover Gas buy out. One thing that…
BREAKING NEWS Wendover Gas Buyout Still Dead, Briggs Will Not Change Vote
After two weeks of wondering whether West Wendover City Councilman Roy Briggs would change his vote on not proceeding with the buy out of the Wendover Gas Company, Briggs held…
Carter Vetoes Gas Vote, Demands Councilmen Explain Sudden Reversal
In the latest bizarre twist to the Wendover Gas purchase, West Wendover Mayor Emily Carter vetoed last week’s council vote to kill the project. In a letter dated last Friday…
Wendover Cold Case Rapist Now Elko’s ‘Most Wanted’
Fifteen years after he allegedly raped a woman in Wendover, Nestor Carrillo Mendoza made the Elko County most wanted list. Implemented this year by Sheriff Jim Pitts the ‘Most Wanted’…
Was Nancy Green Played?
The West Wendover city council may have avoided a a $2.4 million purchase of a near bankrupt gas company last week but put the city in legal jeopardy for much…
Felony Drug Trial of James Allen Repinec March 5 2013
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Gaming Win Deep Freeze
January’s record bitter cold bit into Wendover’s gaming industry which posted on of its largest declines in gaming win since the Great Recession. According to last week’s report from the…