Yerington

In 2018, the EPA handed oversight of the Anaconda mine cleanup project in Yerington to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. It was assumed…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection intends to decide in January whether to cut off most bottled water deliveries to…

It's taken 40 years since the official shutdown of the former Anaconda Copper Mine near Yerington, Nev., but there will finally be shovels in the ground…

Another tribe in Northern Nevada wants Nevada’s new governor to reverse a deal made under the previous administration to clean-up the Anaconda Copper Mine…

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) — A Lyon County man faces one to 12 years in prison after he was convicted of trying to run over a sheriff's deputy in Silver…

Congressman Mark Amodei has introduced a bill to give more than 2,000 acres of federal land at a polluted mine site near Yerington to the oil company…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The owner of an abandoned Nevada mine has suspended the normal bottled water deliveries it's been providing neighbors since tests in…

Nevada’s Anaconda Copper Mine has been removed from an updated list of national Superfund cleanup sites.An agreement was reached between Governor Brian…

Lyon County’s first marijuana dispensary opened Saturday in Yerington.The Yerington Paiute Tribe’s dispensary sells products for both medical and…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — State environmental regulators are banking on a pledge from petroleum giant BP to expedite cleanup of an abandoned Nevada mine without…