Updated: 3:40 PM An electrical short is the suspected cause of an early morning fire that broke out in a modular classroom at an elementary school in Reno.

Updated: 10:40 AM About 3,500 people were treated to band music, singing, a Paiute prayer, brief speeches and - for children - free, freshly minted quarters at an event Tuesday marking circulation of the first of more than 600 million "Nevada quarters."

Updated: 7:58 AM Nevada is poking fun at its neighbor to the west. Tthe silver state is trying to steal business from the golden state... by using the california bear in a new add campaign.

Updated: 7:15 PM Haunted by a horrific case of child abuse in Carson City, your neighbors have been donating money and other items to help out the two young victims.

Updated: 6:39 PM Local resident talks about the cost of medicare-part d. Her old insurance paid for specialty drug at a lower cost to her. That price now has increase more than 100-percent

Updated: 4:20 PM The University of Nevada, Reno has ordered an immediate hiring freeze on state-funded teaching and staff positions.

Updated: 11:32 AM A head-on collision Monday sent Sen. John Ensign and an aide to the hospital.

Updated: 11:29 AM A Nevada legislator wants to give counties and cities authority to crack down on teen smoking by making it illegal.

Updated: 8:45 AM One of the featured speakers at a forty-dollar-a-plate Democratic Party dinner in Minden was an unintentional no-show.

Updated: 8:49 AM While state and federal regulators were scrambling to find money to start cleaning up one of Nevada's most contaminated mines, the Bureau of Land Management returned $700,000 that had been earmarked for the job that may end up costing more than $100 million, documents show.

Updated: 8:38 AM Washoe County school officials have dropped plans for an advisory tax measure on the November ballot after a market survey showed little support for new funding revenues and skepticism on how money is currently spent.

Updated: 7:06 PM A Reno man caused thousands of dollars worth of damage To a REMSA Care Flight helicopter after scaling a small fence outside Washoe Medical Center.

Updated: 6:06 PM The three adults accused of severely abusing two children in Carson City have now formally been charged.

Updated: 11:54 AM Four Nordic skiers were rescued after a winter storm caught them on a trail between Squaw Valley and Sugar Bowl ski resorts.

Updated: 11:50 AM Actor Ashton Kutcher is among a group of investors planning to launch a restaurant in the current Reno Hilton when it is reborn as a hotel-condominium-casino.

Updated: 5:57 PM Five year span from 1997 to 2002 shows women owned business here in Nevada grew 43% four times the national average.

Updated: 11:27 AM The city got enough money...to put in five of these flash-cam cameras...in high incident areas of Ward 2. South Reno is one of the fastest growing parts of the city...and with *all the development, comes more graffiti.

Updated: 11:24 AM Four student athletes have been suspended for their involvement in a scuffle at a local high school basketball game. We looke at what happened, and how coaches are trying to discourage that behavior, even as it escalates among professional athletes.

Updated: 4:21 PM Is the gender gap keeping boys from succeeding in school? Recent studies show boys under-performing girls, starting in grade school and throughout college.

Updated: 10:34 AM Was it an accident or not...Bullets fly outside the brand new Spanish Springs Wal-Mart...and panicked shoppers hide behind cars and run for cover.

Updated: 12:27 PM Sponsored by the Jimmy Heuga Center. Local MS patients can take advantage of the Jumpstart Program to learn more about their disease.

Updated: 11:23 AM Experts say it's a good problem to have: a community growing so quickly and successfully that there simply aren't enough workers to fill all the available jobs.

Updated: 5:36 PM Sparks has a giant new neighbor. A new Wal-mart supercenter had its grand opening this week on Pyramid highway.

Updated: 12:59 PM Since December 1st, Reno police have seen a rash in Toyota car thefts. 69 cars, manufactured between 1986 and 1991, have been ripped off in the Virginia Street corridor.

Updated: 11:37 AM Damage from the New Year's Day flood exceeds $5 million in the Reno area and $10 million in western Nevada, more than qualifying the area for federal disaster relief, according to County Flood Manager Aaron Kenneston.