Sparks detectives are still looking for a man, wanted for questioning, in a murder on Sullivan Lane Sunday.

After a brief stand-off, Reno police arrested two teenagers who escaped Sunday night from the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko.

An emergency evacuation plan for the Lake Tahoe Basin is needed to try to minimize the human toll of a major wildfire or other disaster, officials said.

A 19-year-old Sparks man was being sought for questioning in the suspected gang-related shooting death of another teenager, police said.

A taxpayers group has filed a lawsuit to try to stop signature verification for an initiative petition aimed at repealing last year's record $833 million in state tax increases.

A U.S. warplane bombed near Najaf's vast cemetery as fighting with Shiite militants intensified Tuesday. An Iraqi delegation brought a peace proposal aimed at ending the standoff in the holy city, which has marred a Baghdad conference meant to be a landmark step toward democracy.

Rep. Jim Gibbons will not be named chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, an aide said Monday, even though the Nevada Republican has more seniority than the committee members who appear in line for the job.

Driven from splintered trailers, roofless condos and powerless suburban homes, Hurricane Charley's hungry victims sweated through long lines Monday to find food, showers and drinking water three days after the storm left their lives in shambles.

Drought conditions in Nevada warrant a request for agricultural disaster relief from the federal government for the second consecutive year, a state emergency board concluded Monday.

President Bush's plan to restructure U.S. military forces abroad includes bringing two Army divisions home from Cold War-era bases in Germany, and increasing the U.S. presence at bases in countries like Poland, Romania and Uzbekistan, Pentagon officials said Monday.

A small gamble turned into a huge pay day for a California man at a Reno casino.

- A Nevada schools report card went Online this morning to provide detailed public information about education in the Silver State.

A two-point-eight (B) billion dollar proposed spending plan for the state's public schools calls for a three percent pay raise for teachers and other educational personnel in each of the coming two fiscal years

A four-dollar gamble turned into a huge pay day for a California man at a Reno casino.

Drought conditions in Nevada warrant a request for agricultural disaster relief from the federal government for the second consecutive year, a state emergency board concluded Monday.

Rep. Jim Gibbons will not be named chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, an aide said Monday, even though the Nevada Republican has more seniority than the committee members who appear in line for the job.

Residents left homeless by Hurricane Charley's 145 mph winds dug through their ravaged homes on Sunday, sweeping up shattered glass and rescuing what they could as President Bush promised rapid delivery of disaster aid.

Nevada is not only the fastest growing state in the nation, it's also one of the driest. And it keeps getting drier.

As the remnants of Hurricane Charley disintegrated off the New England coast on Sunday, Florida residents began the massive task of cleaning up from a storm that state officials estimated caused damages as high as $11 billion for insured homes alone.

A case of West Nile virus has been confirmed in a second Churchill County resident and is suspected in a third, and a dog has died in Washoe County as the infection continues to take its toll in Nevada.

A flash flood watch has been posted through Saturday for Carson City and particularly for the area denuded by last month's Waterfall fire, where officials say heavy rain could produce flash flooding in as little as 20 minutes.

The brother of Terry Jess Dennis, executed late Thursday for strangling a woman in Reno in 1999, said Dennis told him in their final meeting just hours before his lethal injection that he was sorry he "screwed up his life" - but wasn't remorseful about the murder.

The count of signatures on a Nevada marijuana initiative is back on today, after a federal judge declared unconstitutional two state requirements for tallying ballot measure signatures.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former Nevada football player who admitted he robbed two Reno banks to help support a gambling habit.

Nevada death row inmate Terry Jess Dennis ate cheeseburgers and had another visit with his brother Wednesday as Nevada State Prison officials moved ahead with plans for the 9 p.m. Thursday execution that Dennis wants.