Most Nevadans know where the principal towns and cities of the Comstock are located. We locals and most tourists know about Virginia City, Gold Hill and Silver City. What many […]
News
Officials break ground on new State Veterans Home
“This is a day that I’ve been looking forward to for many, many years,” Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval stated at the July 17 groundbreaking ceremony of the Northern Nevada State […]
The deal that never should have been
In all the second-guessing and navel gazing over the Faraday Future flop, no one is bringing up the real reason that the deal should never have been made in the […]
Portable Masterpieces theater show coming to opera house Aug. 5
Before the Internet, before television, there was radio, and before radio was Vaudeville. The small orchestras of the radio shows and the vaudeville stage often performed varied repertoires from short […]
Trial and error in Eureka
Most of the west was not affected by the Civil War that raged back east, thus prospectors and miners from many other places were moving a bit eastward following the […]
Mammovan to make stops in Ely and Duckwater this month
The goal of Nevada Health Centers’ Mammovan is to make mammography services accessible and convenient for women by visiting locations across Nevada. These screenings are primarily for women age 40 […]
Eureka County History: The Eureka Sentinel
The first newspaper, or what might be called a newspaper in what later became the state of Nevada, was a small, handwritten one-sheet called the Gold Cañon Switch, around Virginia […]
A Eureka Tradition
The great tunnels of Prospect Mountain
A book written in 1879 details the story of the great tunnels of Prospect Mountain in the Eureka mining district of that day. Lambert Molinelli, the author and real estate […]
Parade, contests and fireworks highlight fun-filled day
The old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration and parade in Eureka traditionally invites a member of the United State armed forces or a veteran to be the flag bearer. This year, […]


