Halfway between Las Vegas and Reno, Tonopah was the boomtown’s boomtown. High quality (and high quantity) silver ore was discovered in 1900 by a rancher named Jim Butler, and the town that would ...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that the 129 dogs he and his deputies rescued from a Tonopah home Tuesday evening seem to be doing well in his First Avenue Jail. "It’s amazing. I saw them last night ...

Turquoise in Tonopah While turquoise is often synonymous with New Mexico or Arizona, Nevada is a true mining mecca, so much so that the Silver State has more turquoise mines than anywhere else in ...

The Arizona Department of Public Safety is investigating a deadly wrong-way crash near Tonopah on the I-10. DPS says a car carrying three people was hit head-on by a wrong-way driver late Friday ...