Winnemucca Blog

Las Vegas Sun:
Firefighters battling several large blazes across northern Nevada welcomed cooler temperatures and even rain in some places Monday, but a reprieve from the heat didn’t tame the potential for gusty, flame-throwing wind and a continued chance of thunderstorms.
“It is cooler than it has been,” Jamie Thompson with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management […]

KESQ 3:
Six firefighters have been injured — two seriously — during a burnover operation at the New York Peak fire northwest of Winnemucca.
Three of the six were flown to Humboldt General Hospital in Winnemucca. Two of them were then flown to the burn center at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The third was treated and […]

Reno Gazette-Journal:
On Monday, Mormon crickets were swarming around the only restaurant open for lunch in Austin. Last week, they invaded the town’s park and public swimming pool, covering the complex in a shifting blanket of milling, ravenous, 2-inch-long bugs.
“Once they were there, they were crawling over everything,” said Jan Morrison, owner of Main Street […]

Brad Buys a Yearling:
News outlets from across the country and world have flocked to this northern Nevada town to witness the cloned mules race. Correspondents from Wired Magazine, London’s Daily Telegraph, Associated Press, a documentary team, and many other news outlets were all plying their trade at the meet.
Reporters looking for a technical angle concentrated […]

Reuters:
Two cloned mules finished third and seventh in a Nevada mule race on Sunday, disappointing the scientists who created them a day after each animal won its respective elimination heat.
But winning aside, scientists said the strong performances of the mules, named Idaho Gem and Idaho Star, will be key to showing the public that the […]

Associated Press:
Winnemucca police officer was arrested on a felony charge for allegedly eluding a Humboldt County sheriff’s deputy who tried to pull him over for speeding.
Officer Andy Murdock was off duty Dec. 9 and driving on Interstate 80 through the city limits when the incident occurred, authorities said.
When the deputy tried to stop him, Murdock […]

Desert Beacon:

All registered Democrats in Humboldt County are encouraged to attend the March 11, 2006, County Convention to be held at the historic St. Mary’s Church in the county Museum Complex, Winnemucca, NV. The convention will start at 10:00 a.m.

Associated Press:
The crash involving a pickup truck and a tanker truck carrying toxic liquid sodium cyanide killed one person and closed a Wyoming highway for several hours Thursday.
The tanker was hauling 30,000 gallons of the chemical from Winnemucca, Nev., to a mine near Lead, S.D. The tanker came to rest on its side on the […]

Space.com:
When the Stardust sample return capsule nose dives back to Earth in January, it will become the fastest human-made object to streak through the atmosphere. Scientists and engineers are at the ready to observe the spectacular sky show—and savvy skywatchers can join in on the aerial action too.
If all goes to plan, Stardust will release […]

According to the Lahontan Valley News, U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbon will be in Winnemucca Monday as part of a six-day, 20-city campaign jaunt through the state:

Gibbons, who is leaving the U.S. House of Representatives after five terms to make a run for Nevada governor this year, will stop Monday in Fallon [and] will […]