The IRS has served notice that it wants a cut of the nearly $300 million in tax rebates that started arriving Saturday in Nevadans' mailboxes.

Sit back and enjoy week 6 on Friday Night Sports Caravan with Josh Little f\eaturing the best in Nevada high school football action in the area's only half hour scholastic sports show.

Three UNR students say they've been ambushed by a man who grabs them inappropriately, then walks away.

Bears roaming neighborhoods at Tahoe have become almost common in recent years and it's no longer unusual for them to show up in neighborhoods in Reno, Carson City, and the Carson Valley.

The military now confirms that two local National Guardsmen were killed because their Chinook helicopter was shot down by hostile fire in Afghanistan.

Whether it is belly dancing, knitting, or finding your stress points, there is a class offered by the Washoe County School District to meet everyone's interest.

Nevada motorists and some senior citizens should begin receiving their slice of the state's $272 million tax surplus.

A new highway is being built through the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, that will give an added incentive to companies looking at relocation there.

The US Department of Health and Human services says the number of obese school aged children has at least doubled in the last 25 years. In this Teaching Our Kids report, the Meridian Gold Company took the challenge to get kids in shape for life with it's annual run for education fund-raiser.

A man is behind bars for the murder of a Reno woman at the Victorian Inn on Monday.

Doyle Smith is a local teacher who realized it was his background in law enforcement that would take him across the country to Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

A local teacher says she wanted to get her students out of the classroom while still allowing the learning to continue.

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Education experts say music education influences a student's performance in all of his or her academic classes.

While so much of the focus in our schools is to help Epanish speaking students learn English.... a local non-profit group is teaming up with several elementary schools to teach students, Spanish.

Military recruiters have access to a school's student directory under the No Child Left Behind act. But, some parents are "opting out" of the directory.

A truck wreck two weeks ago in the Bay Area could still haunt taxpayers in northern Nevada. A courier truck loaded with tax payments crashed on the San Mateo Bridge on September 11th, dumping an estimated 30,000 tax payments into the San Francisco Bay.

The Washoe County School District now has a plan to fill a $5.5 million gap in its budget, without cutting teachers.

A new report ranks Nevada second in the nation in the number of women killed by men on a per capita basis.

Street Vibrations is in fact the sixth largest motorcycle gathering in the country. Sunday, thousands of bikers prepared to head home.

The two men had served more than a decade in Company D, the 113th Aviation Unit of the Nevada Army National Guard based in Stead. They have been identified as 36-year-old Chief Warrant Officer John Flynn of Sparks and 35-year-old Sergeant Patrick Stewart of Fernley.

College administrators and current students could not stress enough about the importance of getting started early.

Sit back and enjoy all the highlights of week five of northern Nevada high school football action with Josh Little and the NewsChannel 8 sports team.

Washoe County did gain students this year, but not the estimated 13-hundred students. However, Carson City and Douglas County schools actually declined.

The Peppermill Hotel/Casino announced plans for a major expansion today, a $230 million project that will include a new hotel tower, convention center and parking garage.