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…
Speeding Stop Leads To Big Narcotics Bust
A Nampa, Idaho man has only himself to blame for being arrested while transporting a large and varied selection of illegal drugs in his car last week. Cody Bailey, 28,…
Local Oil Boom Busted By Price Drop
The dramatic fall in oil prices might be great for Wendover casinos but and area mines but not so good for the nascent oil industry that had just begun to…
Malfunction Cuts Internet/phones
Spotty internet and phone connections in Wendover over the week were not caused by a cyber attack but a simple malfunction said Centracom internet maven Nate Palmer. “Ok, I got…