Teens are spending six hundred to a thousand dollars on prom, but the dance isn't all about the money spent. We found out what teens are spending here and why some say the event is getting too decadent.

Hundreds gathered Saturday in Reno to protest, what they call, strict anti-immigration laws.

Authors of two new economic studies say Nevada and ten other states are inviting disaster if they approve Colorado-style initiatives that limit government spending to the combined rate of inflation and population growth.

Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in such cities as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages.

Nearly a week after St. Patrick's Day, Sparks police are looking into a holiday "bar brawl" that may have involved four Washoe-County deputies.

A 29-year-old Sun Valley man who didn't want to go to jail is likely to be spending even more time behind bars after fleeing from state troopers.

Washoe County now has the highest credit rating of any government in northern Nevada.

Starting in August, about 2,900 residents in Cold Springs will have an idea of what the new water rate increase will mean for their monthly bill. Thursday night, residents had the opportunity to speak up before the decision is made.

17-year old D'raun Manning says he was in middle school when he realized he could choose between two different paths in life. In tonight's Kids You Should Know, we explain why he chose to succeed and then became a role model to his peers.

Critics are calling a proposed change to enrollment policy, at a local charter school... *unfair* and potentially *illegal*. But officials at High-Desert Montessori say, it's needed, to deal with a new problem for the school... over-crowding.

A coalition of health organizations that's been snubbed twice by the Nevada Legislature began a campaign today to pass a ballot measure that would ban smoking in most public places in the state.

Sarah Steineker, 50, is stuck to her seat. She's got a bingo game going, and the "hot ball" jackpot is up to $14,490. But thanks to mobile gambling regulations that passed the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday, she soon may be able to take that bingo game with her elsewhere in the casino.

Democratic state Senator Dina Titus has proposed a "12-Step Plan" of reform measures she says will restore trust in Nevada's elected officials.

Chinese laborers who helped to build the old Virginia & Truckee Railroad in 1869 were honored at a Nevada State Railroad Museum event that focused on a 40 (m) million-dollar revival of the V&T and a 50 (m) million-dollar museum complex to commemorate the workers.

The number of visitors to Nevada grew nearly one percent last year to an all-time high of 51-point-six (M) million.

Parents had a number of opportunities to speak out about proposed start times for all of the schools in the Washoe County School District. At the final meeting Tuesday night, the superintendent announced the recommendation he says he'll make at next weeks school board meeting.

People in Virginia City can finally take that long-awaited shower.

The sparkling brooks and glistening alpine lakes in the Sierra may not be as pristine as they look, but an environmental group says a lack of specific data makes it difficult to determine just how serious the problem is.

Nevada filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the federal Energy Department of withholding documents that state officials say will show the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository can't be built safely.

While polls show faltering public support for the Iraq war, Governor Guinn says his backing of Bush administration efforts in the Middle East increased following his trip last week to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

One of two men whose federal conviction for stealing American Indian artwork was overturned says the pair simply wanted to protect the ancient petroglyphs from encroaching development.

March is colon cancer awareness month. Local personality talks about his experience with colonoscopy

A substitute teacher in Fernley has been named a suspect in a child predator case involving child pornography.

Clark County's growth supremacy is no more. Census figures for 2004-2005 show that three of the nation's Top 10 fastest growing counties are in rural Nevada.

The 14-year-old accused of wounding two classmates in a middle school shooting incident last week will remain in custody at the juvenile detention center in Reno.