NELLIS AFB, Nevada, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Fairchild Air Force Base (92nd Air Refueling Wing) issued the following news: By Senior Airman Haiden Morris, 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Air refueling professionals assigned to the 92nd, 93rd, and 97th Air Refueling Squadrons and the 509th Weapons Squadron participated in the Weapons School Integration course at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Nov. 26 - Dec. 13, 2023. WSINT is a series of complex, large-force employment missions tha  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management announced its approval of the Goldrush Mine project, part of the Nevada Gold Mines Cortez Complex, in Lander and Eureka counties. The underground gold mine is expected to operate for 24 years and employ approximately 570 people. "We are pleased to announce the approval of the Goldrush Mine," said Douglas Furtado, BLM's Bat  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: RENO, Nevada--- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carson City District Office, has prepared a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA), Vero Fiber Networks Reno to Las Vegas Fiber Optic Project # DOI-BLM-NV-C000-2023-0003-EA (Vero Fiber Optic Project PEA). The proposed project would include the construction and operation of an approximately 450-mile-long underground fiber  more

BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho, Joshua D. Hurwit, issued the following new release on Dec. 11, 2023: Anubor Bagbi, 63, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. According to court records, between May and December 2022, Bagbi obtained fraudulent or stolen checks issued to legitimate companies, then established fraudulent bank accounts in variou  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, Jason M. Frierson, issued the following news release: An Arizona resident was sentenced Tuesday by United States District Judge Cristina D. Silva to 135 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents, Mateo Vailon-Ramirez, aka Juan De Dios Yuen Felix, 38, conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine and   more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Dec. 9 -- President Biden issued the following remarks at an Investing in America event on Dec. 8, 2023, at the Carpenter International Training Center: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) Please, take a seat, if you have one. If you don't, you can build one real quickly. (Laughter.) I'll tell you what, you know, I was thinking back there when Cesar was speaking that, you know, it's been a while. Harry Reid, I told you 35 years ago to get this sucker don  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management concluded the FY2024 Nevada Wild Horse Range Herd Management Area wild horse gather near Tonopah, Nev., on December 14, 2023. The BLM gathered 309 wild horses and removed 137 excess wild horses from public lands. Of those gathered, the BLM released back to the range 109 mares treated with GonaCon Equine, a population suppression contro  more