Hello, Nevadans!
In Your Nevada below, you’ll see the inside of one of the oldest, richest, and most famous gold mines in southern Nevada, the Techatticup Mine.
I briefly stopped by Eldorado Canyon, where the mine is, during a road trip a couple months ago.
It’s not your ordinary ghost town—there are residents who take care of the aging buildings. In fact, there are signs reminding you that you’re on private property. If the town looks familiar, perhaps you recognize it from being used as a movie set, or maybe from the video game Fallout: New Vegas.
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Here’s my husband and a peek at some of the relics the town has to offer.
In today’s newsletter:
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Thank you for starting your day with me!
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“The Techatticup Mine is Nevada’s oldest and richest gold and silver mine, located at Nelson, Nevada, about 45 minutes south of Las Vegas, via NV-165 E.”
Thank you, Lynn L. for sharing this unique view of Your Nevada!
According to Travel Nevada, owners Tony and Bobbie Werly purchased the 50 acres in 1994 that included several mining claims, a store, a stamp mill, a bunkhouse, and a few tin miner cabins. Since then, the couple has been restoring the area, even opening up the Techatticup Mine for tours.
Related: The stories behind 4 ghost towns in Nevada that are worth exploring
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Microvolunteering in Nevada is one way to engage around your schedule. (Desola Lanre-Ologun/Unsplash)
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By Aleza Freeman
Microvolunteering tasks vary widely across organizations and may include unskilled tasks such as signing petitions, tagging photos, walking shelter dogs, planting a tree, completing a survey, or posting on social media. The tasks take a few seconds to a few hours, don’t require intensive training or commitment, and can sometimes be done from the comfort of home.
If you’re looking for a microgig, but you’re not familiar with Nevada’s charities, you can search a full database of nonprofits on the GreatNonprofits website. The site lets you filter by city, state, and type, so it’s easy to find a cause that’s important to you.
Nevada Volunteers is another prolific registry of local charities. There are several ways to search, including by cause, age range, type, and frequency. A recent search revealed 273 one-time tasks, 85 virtual tasks, and 21 one-time and virtual tasks for nonprofits throughout Nevada.
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The Nevada State Legislative Building. (Casey Harrison/The Nevadan)
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By USA Today Network via Reuters Connect
Twenty-four new laws passed by the 2025 Legislature went into effect in Nevada on July 1, including:
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- Cities in Washoe and Clark counties required to include heat mitigation efforts in their master plans for growth.
- School districts and charter schools are allowed to hire teachers licensed in another state, making it more flexible to hire educators.
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K-12 students can opt to attend a different school outside their zone, expanding this kind of open enrollment statewide.
- Nevada public schools already have cell phone restrictions, but the new law expands the types of devices covered, it requires discipline actions, and it spells out exceptions for emergencies and teacher-approved instructional use.
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🟣 Rural NV counties especially vulnerable to Hoover Dam hydropower decline. Nevada Current
“[Lincoln County] gets 70% of its electricity from Hoover Dam. If projections hold, the power district’s share of the dam’s hydropower will be reduced to 30% by 2027. The sudden loss of more than half the power district’s Hoover Dam delivery will force the utility company to buy market-rate electricity, which tends to be more expensive and less flexible.”
🟣 To solve rising overdoses, Nevada prisons may turn to a sidelined solution: dogs. The Nevada Independent
“Overdoses inside Nevada’s state prisons have exploded, jumping from just 12 in 2021 to more than 120 in 2025. It’s a problem that’s had a domino effect, leading to rising hospitalizations and spiraling overtime rates that have cost the state millions of dollars. Now, correctional officers are pushing for a different answer: drug-detection dogs. Nevada is one of the few states that does not have a canine unit in its state prison system.”
🟣 The secret love lives of Mountain Chickadees exposed. KUNR
“There’s a new Sierra Nevada reality show—research shows female Mountain Chickadees will cheat on their partners with smarter males … Those with better spatial cognition live longer. Neurons in the brain record locations, like computer codes, and start firing when a chickadee looks in the direction of its [winter] stash. It’s this trait that makes them attractive to the opposite sex.”
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