Residents in the Stead area faced mandatory water conservation restrictions for a second straight day Sunday because of a break in the area's main water line.

John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate was received favorably by the public, polls suggest, but it has made little difference so far in the race with President Bush.

A man accused of stealing more than two dozen cattle from Nevada worth $14,000 has agreed to enter a guilty plea to avoid trial, prosecutors said.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says his selection of John Edwards as his running mate seems to have injected energy into the campaign.

A 50-acre wildfire along Interstate 80 about 20 miles east of Truckee was contained.

A western-themed amusement park on Lake Tahoe's north shore based on the hit 1960s television show "Bonanza" has been sold to PeopleSoft founder David Duffield for an undisclosed sum.

Customers in the Stead area were being asked to conserve water Saturday because of a break in the area's main water line.

The U.S. Department of Education has denied Nevada's application for grant money to fund start-up costs for charter schools.

The Nevada Board of Education has approved the start of contract negotiations with a New Hampshire-based testing company, signaling what may be the end of a troubled relationship with the state's current firm.

President Bush says legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization and that a constitutional amendment is needed to protect it.

A petition to raise the hourly minimum wage in Nevada by $1 has failed to qualify for the November ballot - based on legal advice from the state's attorney general that also threatens three other initiatives to amend the Nevada Constitution.

Federal and state firefighters told Gov. Kenny Guinn on Friday that wildfires in Nevada already have burned far more acres this summer than during all of 2003 - and the worst of the fire season is yet to come.

Following the release of a Senate report harshly criticizing U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis, the focus will soon shift to whether and how to make sweeping changes to the intelligence community.

A Reno man said his new wife was only trying to get him to stop working as a paid police informant when she allegedly hired an undercover detective to kill him.

Nevada conservation chief Mike Turnipseed and his top deputy, Freeman Johnson, are resigning under pressure from the Guinn administration following complaints about what Johnson termed his efforts to "establish a camaraderie" with staffers.

Nevada officials declared victory Friday in their fight to stop the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, saying they don't think the Energy Department can meet a stricter standard to protect the public against radiation releases.

Federal prosecutors unveiled charges Thursday that placed Enron Corp. founder and former chairman Kenneth Lay at the center of a conspiracy to manipulate the company's books in the frenzied weeks before its scandalous collapse.

Nevada lobbyist Harvey Whittemore and his partners are proposing a $25 million casino north of Sparks using the unrestricted gambling license from the now closed Old Reno Casino.

A marijuana initiative has failed to qualify in Clark County, jeopardizing the petition's ability to make the statewide November ballot, election officials said Thursday.

President Bush has opened a slight lead over John Kerry while regaining the confidence of some voters on the economy and other domestic issues, according to an Associated Press poll with a silver lining for Democrats.

Ralph Nader's presidential campaign turned in more than 11,000 signatures Thursday in efforts to get on the Nevada ballot - more than double the number of names of registered voters required from independent candidates.

Nevada ranks second in the nation in reports of identity theft per capita, and federal and Las Vegas law enforcers said they've formed a task force to fight it.

This old northern Nevada mining town's community center, built as a two-room school in 1867, was destroyed by fire Wednesday.

The legality of an initiative petition to raise the minimum wage in Nevada by $1 is in doubt - and there are questions about three other initiatives to amend the Nevada Constitution, according to the secretary of state's office.

President Bush on Wednesday curtly dismissed freshman Sen. John Edwards' credentials to be vice president while Democratic challenger John Kerry and his running mate rallied voters in battleground states. "Dick Cheney can be president," Bush declared, and Kerry suggested that was part of the problem.