Most people find this site because of a story. That is the smallest part of it.
Underneath the stories is a set of public records we gathered, cleaned up and put in one place. All of it is free. None of it needs a login. You do not have to file a records request or ask anyone's permission.
The county publishes most of this already. It just publishes it in a way you cannot use. Scanned PDFs. A search box that does not work. Forty different pages. We do the digging once, so you do not have to do it at all.
The green words are the point
Nearly everything on this site in our signature RayGun Green, with a line under it, is a link. It takes you to more detail, or straight to the original document.
That is the whole idea here. We do not ask you to take our word for anything. If we write that the state called something an incinerator, the green words go to the state's own paperwork saying so.
Click them. That is what they are for.
Here is what is on the site right now.
Start here
Look at the top of any page on this site. One item in the menu is in RayGun Green.
That one says Nye County government and resources. Click it and the whole records side of the site drops down in one list.
Meetings. Bills. Salaries. The staff directory. Water rights. Campaign finance. The county budget. Who's who. And the how-do-I guide.
That menu is the site. The stories are just what we found in it.
Meetings and agendas
3,438 meetings, from 34 different public bodies. Not just the county commission. The school board, the planning commission, the water district, the hospital district, and the town boards in Beatty, Amargosa, Tonopah, Gabbs, Round Mountain, Belmont and Manhattan.
For each meeting you get the agenda, the minutes, and the recording where one exists. 1,090 of them have video. You can watch what happened.
The page leads with the next meeting coming up, and tells you how to attend, how to watch, and the call-in number.
Start at Meetings and agendas.
Bills in progress
107 bills, ordinances and resolutions, tracked from the first time they showed up on an agenda.
This is the one people underestimate. A bill does not pass in one meeting. It gets introduced, sent back, rewritten, and voted on months later. Most people only hear about it after the vote.
Every bill here shows its whole trail. Every agenda it appeared on, every set of minutes, every tape. You can see a thing coming.
Start at Bills in progress.
Salaries
624 county employees and what they were paid in 2025. Base pay, overtime, benefits, total.
This is public record. It always was. Now you can sort it.
Start at Salaries.
Staff directory
527 county staff, with their titles, departments and published phone numbers.
The county spreads this across dozens of separate pages. Here it is one list you can search. Where we could match a person to the payroll file, their 2025 pay is on the same line.
Start at Staff directory.
Campaign finance
387 candidates, 5,735 contributions and 9,143 expenses, straight from the Secretary of State.
Who gave money to whom. How much. When. What the campaign spent it on.
Start at Campaign finance, or look up one person on Who's who.
Water rights
3,309 water rights records for Basin 162, which is the Pahrump valley.
Who holds a right, how much water it is for, and what it is permitted to be used for. The state has said for years that more water is on paper here than is in the ground. This is the ledger those paper rights sit in.
Start at Water rights.
County budget
Where the money goes, by department and by fund.
Start at County budget.
Who's who
Every elected officer in Nye County. Not just the five commissioners. The sheriff, the district attorney, the assessor, the clerk, the treasurer, the recorder and the public administrator.
Each one shows how to reach them, what board seats they hold, and what their campaign took in.
Start at Who's who.
How do I find out...
This one is a guide, not a database. It answers the questions people actually call us about.
Who owns this property. How to file a records request. What the commission is deciding this month. Where the county's money goes. How to look up a court case. Who approved a development and whether you can object. Who controls the water.
Each answer tells you where to look and what to say.
Start at How do I find out....
Search
One box across every story on the site.
Start at Search.
Send a tip
If you work for the county, or you have a document, or you just saw something that did not look right, send it to us.
You do not have to give your name. Say as much or as little as you want.
What we are not
We are not a rumor page. Every claim on this site links to the document it came from. If we say the state called something an incinerator, there is a link to the state document that says it.
If we get something wrong, we fix it and say so.
What comes next
Over the next few weeks we are running a short series on these tools. One piece at a time, one tool at a time. How to read an agenda. How to find out what your neighbor's property is assessed at. How to follow a bill before it passes instead of after.
If you want those as they come out, get on the alert list. It is free, and we do not sell anything.
