Thunder clouds rolling through the area created enough lightning to start several small brushfires Monday night.

City Enforcement Task Force targeted the City Heart motel. Owners face six pages of violations including cockroach infestation and faulty wiring. More than 45-residents live in the motel.

The Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge near Fallon is now covering a span of 20,000 acres thanks to increased insect populations and two consecutive wet winters.

Police are searching for an robbery suspect who robbed a grocery store on Saturday morning.

The bodies of two men were discovered on Saturday near Lake Tahoe, and their mysterious deaths may have been the result of heavy lightning activity.

Democrats bucked decades of tradition today by moving to wedge the state of Nevada between the long-standing one-two punch of Iowa and New Hampshire in the leadoff nominating contests for president in 2008.

A Fallon teenager was killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Interstate 80 about 30 miles east of Reno.

Improved weather and a lot of resources were helping fire crews tame a 2,063-acre wildfire that once threatened a residential area east of Carson City and the historic mining town of Virginia City.

The bizarre weather brought bursts of flooding and a spectacular lightning show on Friday evening.

New fire safety restrictions go into effect this weekend.

Crews have completely surrounded the major wildfire near Susanville.

A Reno man who earlier was placed on one year's probation for defacing scores of buildings and vehicles with graffiti in January was sentenced to two years in jail today for committing the same crime again.

Developers broke ground today for a luxury resort hotel at the Northstar-at-Tahoe ski resort that will be modeled after upscale mountain lodges built in the West a century ago.

A former corrections officer was sentenced today to life in prison with no parole possible for at least 10 years for sexually assaulting a Reno woman in her home two years ago.

Gubernatorial hopeful Dina Titus is disputing the idea that her Democratic primary opponent Jim Gibson has a better chance of winning the general election because he is more of a moderate.

Almost one-thousand homes and businesses lost power in Sparks and Southwest Reno for several hours.

Tuesday evening's power problems at LAX impacted travel for thousands of airline passengers here in Reno.

A recent Reed High School grad is now one of 30 contestants starring in a new MTV reality show, "Final Fu."

The federal government has acquired part of an historic ranch east of Sparks in a deal that conservationists say will aid restoration work on the lower Truckee River.

The brother of the late state Controller Kathy Augustine is appealing to the public to come forward with any information that may help answer questions about her death and her husband's attempted suicide.

Containment is expected by 6 p-m today of a wildland fire south of Reno on the Nevada-California line.

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A body was found in the Truckee River on Monday, but authorities said it was not immediately known if it was a man who disappeared in the river a week ago after jumping from a bridge.

A heat wave continues across northern Nevada, where forecasters say temperatures will reach triple digits today.

As a probe continued into the sudden death of state Controller Kathy Augustine and her husband's suicide attempt, her brother said Monday he's suspicious and will "cooperate 100 percent" with police to help resolve the bizarre case.