Updated: 11:13 AM Images from the Gulf make Nevada seem a world away, but soon our state will become home to hundreds maybe even thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Updated: 11:20 AM One plane headed for Iraq, while another headed south for hurricane affected areas. Sunday morning truly was a perfect example of the guard's dual role to both our national defense overseas and the duty required in local disasters.
Updated: 2:24 PM The disaster relief effort is far from over, and several hundred people in northern Nevada are getting ready to do what they can to help.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
