Saturday, February 11, 2012
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Rural Nevada homeowners with mortgages held by USDA Rural Development may be eligible to refinance their loans and save money. USDA Rural Development Director Sarah Adler says with interest rates at historically low levels, homeowners who are current on payments may be ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:32 AM
ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- Republican Rep. Ron Paul railed against the federal government during campaign stops in Nevada on Thursday, saying states are in the best position to resolve conflicts over the management of wild horses and roads on public lands. Paul addressed about 600 people in Reno ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 8:37 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A young gray wolf's search for a mate apparently won't take him to the northern Nevada desert where the annual Burning Man festival is staged. The wolf known as OR-7 came within 15 miles of the Nevada line near Susanville, Calif., early last week before he decided to head b ...
Sunday, January 29, 2012 8:58 PM
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mother Nature is a fickle mistress. One year removed from near-record snow levels that sent 4 trillion gallons of much-needed meltwater into Lake Mead, winter has gotten off to a terrible start in the mountains that feed the Colorado River. Conditions are so dry that wat ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:55 PM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada agriculture producers and rural businesses can apply for federal grants or loan guarantees to improve their energy efficiency or build renewable energy systems. The state office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development agency says businesses in co ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:15 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Nevada is appealing to agency employees to step up and blow the whistle on any abuse of mustangs. Amy Lueders said that's the best way to stop horse protection advocates from undermining the agency's roundup policies wit ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 9:40 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal land managers have agreed to postpone a precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pending a federal court's review of the issue. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision came a week after a coalition of conservationists ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 7:30 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A coalition of conservationists and wild-horse activists is suing the government to block its implementation of a precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada. The lawsuit, filed by the Western Watersheds Project, the American Wild Hor ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:37 PM
SPARKS, Nev. -- People attending the California Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention here heard a familiar refrain from the group's president. Farmers and ranchers should keep working hard to educate the public and elected leaders from urban areas about what they do, CFBF President Paul Wen ...
Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:00 PM
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is pushing President Barack Obama's jobs plan in Las Vegas. Vilsack is scheduled to meet with Las Vegas Valley business owners Wednesday morning to discuss private investment in rural America. He will also promote the Obama administr ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011 7:39 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Federal regulators on Wednesday ruled in favor of Northwest wind power generators who objected to being ordered to shut down at times this spring when the Columbia River basin was brimming with water and hydropower dams were running at maximum capacity. The Federal Ener ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011 1:59 PM
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) -- A 75-year-old lawyer who fought private property rights battles alongside Idaho U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth and her Nevada rancher husband Wayne Hage in the 1990s is still cultivating the Sagebrush Rebellion's roots. Fred Kelly Grant has been slowed by age and heart sur ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:42 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A plan to rezone a portion of University of Nevada, Reno-owned farm land in Reno to allow its sale for commercial development is drawing opposition. Councilwoman Jessica Sferrazza and citizen activists Erik Holland and Heidi Littenberg are appealing the Reno Planning Commi ...
Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:08 PM
FALLON, Nev. (AP) -- Teff is tough. The grass, native to the highlands of Ethiopia, grows best at altitude, likes sun and doesn't require much irrigation. That makes it ideal for the Fallon farm country, where altitude and sunlight are plentiful but water is in short supply. Ent ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:43 AM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Horse advocates are protesting plans by a state agency to remove up to 100 abandoned horses from the range in northern Nevada after a rash of vehicle accidents. Nevada Department of Agriculture officials began removing horses on Friday after more than 30 recent c ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:40 AM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Landowners looking for a deal on trees to aid conservation efforts may find a bargain next month at the state nursery in Washoe Valley. The Nevada Division of Forestry State Tree Nursery will be offering plants at 25 percent off Oct. 14-15, when the facility w ...
Friday, September 30, 2011 9:02 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Washoe County farmers may be eligible for federal assistance for crop losses that came after a long and wet winter. The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared parts of California as a disaster area for unseasonable winter weather that ran from the end of February through ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:00 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The same day a judge scolded the Bureau of Land Management for a helicopter pilot's misconduct rounding up wild horses in Nevada, the agency's own task force quietly issued a report emphasizing the importance of keeping safe buffer zones between the mustangs and the airborne ...
Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:47 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest mustang roundups in the West, granting a rare emergency order sought by wild horse protection advocates who argue all of the gathers on public lan ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:05 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Never one to back down from a fight with the U.S. government, northern Nevada's rural Elko County has been feuding with federal land managers for decades over environmental protections they say go too far. So it comes as a bit of a surprise to lawyers for the government ...
Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:52 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Frito Bandito and War Paint have new homes. The two mustangs were among nine-saddle trained wild horses and one burro that were adopted at a Bureau of Land Management auction over the weekend. Inmates from the Northern Nevada Correctional Center who trained the horses ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:18 AM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- The Nevada Department of Agriculture says a sick horse from Lyon County has tested positive for West Nile virus. Agency officials tell the (Gardnerville) Record-Courier (http://bit.ly/qcRNvd ) that the tests show it's important for horse owners to vaccinate their an ...
Friday, August 12, 2011 7:25 AM
NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) -- In an arid field of Joshua trees and desert brush 30 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, an isolated farm is raising thousands of recently hatched shrimp in salt-water tanks filled from a nearby well. The artificial ponds splayed across a temperature-controlled room ...
Thursday, July 28, 2011 8:27 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has been given the green light to move ahead with a wild horse roundup in Nevada. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco lifted a temporary injunction on Tuesday that put the government roundup on hol ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:07 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A federal judge has said he intends to decide Friday whether to grant an emergency injunction blocking a government roundup of 1,700 wild horses in eastern Nevada, a move that also could affect other roundups on public rangeland across the West. "I'm very concerned ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:33 PM
reports the federal agency is bringing water twice weekly to herds in the Cherry Springs area that are targeted for a wild horse round-up next week. BLM officials say they are bringing 2,000 gallons of water to the herds each week. Natural springs in the area produce about 10 gallons of water ...
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