Updated: 10:34 AM 70-percent of Americans own a home, yet paying the mortgage bills is only getting harder.

Updated: 4:29 PM Open windows bring cool air in at night, but they could be opening you up to burglary or worse. Reno Police are investigating two cases where people found that lesson out the hard way.

Updated: 7:20 AM The development of casino condos isn't sitting too well with some property owners in downtown Reno.

Updated: 7:00 PM West Nile Virus continues to progress throughout the state.

Updated: 1:38 PM Hot rods, customs, muscle cars and stockers. They each have their fans But there's one kind of vehicle here that's achieved a special status and has a devoted following - the truck.

Updated: 7:00 PM More condominiums could be popping up in downtown Reno, yet another hotel/casino wants to turn its property into high rise condos.

Updated: 1:38 PM Taken together it's easy to view all of these cars with affection, the hot rods, the customs, the stockers, the muscle cars, the common and the obscure. Behind each is an owner driven to pursue their own vision.

Updated: 1:38 PM Reno will be a whole lot more crowded this week. Hot August Nights officially kicked off. The event brings millions of dollars to Reno. It also brings thousands of people and their cars.

Updated: 6:30 AM An increase in mosquito and beetle populations as well as an abundance of cheat grass has all been blamed on our wet winter. Now the wet winter has pitted the fox against the hound.

Updated: 10:30 AM 8-year-old Lydia Rupp returned home to Fernley Saturday night for the first time since she was kidnapped nine days ago.

Updated: 12:21 PM As word spread about Lydia being found, people in Fernley gathered... *this time to celebrate the good news.

Updated: 12:08 PM Micah Rupp says he still can't believe what this family has been through in the last seven days... but, he says the feeling of relief won't be complete until he sees Lydia himself.

Updated: 6:38 PM Missing eight year old Lydia Bethanie-Rose Rupp is reunited with her mother Saturday afternoon in San Diego, California.

Updated: 1:38 PM Reno and Sparks are bracing for the busiest event of the year. Hot August Nights brings hundreds of thousand of visitors to the area.

Updated: 4:08 PM Congress gave final approval Friday to a nearly $300 billion transportation bill packed with road projects for every state - including $45 million for a fast, magnetic levitation train from Las Vegas to Primm and more than $50 million for the Hoover Dam bypass bridge.

Updated: 6:57 PM Those with Bayer Properties want to make sure everyone understands, The Summit Sierra scheduled to open next Spring is not a mall, and they're not worried that weather will keep you away.

Updated: 6:37 PM A convicted sex offender was allowed to volunteer at two schools in Stead. James Lee Trujillo was convicted of sexual assault in February of 1994. He was a volunteer at O'Brien Middle School last year, where his daughter was a seventh grader, and previously at Stead Elementary.

Updated: 9:51 AM He's been in Afghanistan since March, but this Sparks man is celebrating more than just a two-week vacation at home with family and friends. This family says it goes beyond "tradition" and more like a way of life... because none say they could imagine life outside the military.

Updated: 9:23 AM The town of Fernley is rallying around the family of an eight-year-old girl apparently kidnapped by a convicted sex offender. A news conference was held today at city hall to update everyone on the case and ask for community support.

Updated: 9:53 AM A Lyon County Resident has become Nevada's first human case of West Nile Virus this yea, and it’s a severe one. And he doesn't fall into the high-risk category for contracting the virus, he's less than 50 years old.

Updated: 5:45 PM Nicole Robbins says she is just a mom... a mom police say was looking out for children other than her own July 13th.

Updated: 5:42 PM The abduction of an eight-year-old Fernley girl by an alleged sex offender...brings up several disturbing issues about sex offenders living in our area. Protecting your children goes beyond knowing your neighbors.

Updated: 2:56 PM A police stand-off in Sparks Tuesday evening ended 3 1/2 hours later, with a truck driver in police custody.

Updated: 6:19 PM Investigators say you really can't rely on the sex offender registry as your only tool to protect your children... especially since it's set up to rely on a convicted felon for it to work.

Updated: 6:46 PM Tracking down fugitives and watching ex-convicts...that's a day in the life of a parole and probation officer. The job can be very challenging especially with fewer people getting into the field because of past budget problems.