Updated: 11:11 AM Sit back and enjoy highlights of all the high school football action from week two of the season on NewsChannel 8's Friday Night Sports Caravan.

Updated: 10:50 AM It really comes down to changing your habits. We set out to find five very simple ways that could save you at least dollars a week that would have been spent on gas.

Updated: 6:40 PM One local college student was supposed to start classes Wednesday in New Orleans. Instead, she's back at Lake Tahoe working at her summer job.

Updated: 9:15 AM Even before Katrina hit the coast, we knew gas prices would go up. But that's happened faster than we thought, and thoroughly. Gasoline is approaching $4 a gallon in some place. Here in Sparks and Reno, its up to $3.39 for a gallon of regular.

Updated: 9:22 AM About two dozen medical support troops from the Nevada Air and Army Guard took off for Baton Rouge to help in relief efforts. Most of them come from Northern Nevada, and about five from Las Vegas. We don't know what their mission will be, but we do know they could be there for about two weeks.

Updated: 2:34 PM The Regional Transportation Commission is teaming up with Reno Radio Representatives and News Channel 8. We're all raising money to give to the Salvation Army to help the people who need that help so badly in the south.

Updated: 10:32 AM Katrina may well end up being the largest natural disaster in U.S. History. And recovery efforts just now getting started, will take months if not years to complete. We'll tell you how you can help.

Updated: 10:15 AM A national report shows Nevada is becoming a hot spot for car thieves. Las Vegas ranks third in the nation and Reno moves up the list to number 39.

Updated: 10:31 AM The number of Hurricane Katrina victims in Red Cross shelters is up to 45,000 and growing, the rescue organization reported Wednesday.

Updated: 10:16 AM The punch "Katrina" is packing could mean even higher gas prices at the pump.

Updated: 9:17 AM For many young adults, college is the first chance for them to have absolute freedom from their families.

Updated: 3:43 PM The planes are staying... and, with Friday's announcement to keep the C-130 planes at Reno's Air National Guard base came a sigh of relief for many guardsmen.

Updated: 11:11 AM Welcome to the kick-off edition of NewsChannel 8's FRIDAY NIGHT SPORTS CARAVAN -- a full half hour of high school football action.

Updated: 6:51 PM The military base closing commission voted Late Friday to keep Reno's Air National Guard wing in place, overturning a Pentagon plan to yank the planes and send them to Arkansas.

Updated: 8:59 AM A recent survey shows only a small percentage of faculty and staff is happy working at the University of Nevada-Reno.

Updated: 6:03 PM A ten-month old Sparks boy is in intensive care, and his mother is behind bars tonight, after the toddler reportedly ate methamphetamine.

Updated: 5:59 PM Reno Police believe they've solved a string of burglaries with one arrest. It stemmed from a domestic violence call.

Updated: 4:50 PM Firefighters were holding ground early Friday against a 2,000-acre forest fire burning northwest of Lake Tahoe.

Updated: 6:59 PM The West Nile Virus is a mosquito bourne disease has made it's way across the country...including here in Nevada. Another more dangerous disease, Malaria is transmitted the same way. University of Nevada Researchers are looking at a unique way of controlling mosquito populations in hopes of warding off disease.

Updated: 6:47 PM It's move-in day at the University of Nevada...and the campus is full of eager freshman and some worried parents. It's the first time for most of the 25-hundred freshman to be away from home for an extended period of time. But, the reality of independence sometimes hits mom and dad harder when it's time to say good-bye.

Updated: 8:40 AM The commission determining military base closures nationwide voted Wednesday to keep open the Hawthorne Army Depot 130 miles southeast of Reno.

Updated: 7:01 PM The mother of a fallen Marine who was born and raised in Reno is speaking out.

Updated: 3:23 PM Nevada Senator Harry Reid has recovered enough to make his first public appearance since suffering a brief medical condition last Friday.

Updated: 5:51 PM The United States military has roughly 138-thousand troops deployed in Iraq. We bring you an update on the Carson City woman who is working to make sure some of those soldiers' lives are a little sweeter.

Updated: 3:22 PM The Eldorado began demolition of a couple of neighbors, tearing down two motels to make room for a parking lot. But as the downtown changes and new projects come on line, there's concern more parking will be needed.