MGM Mirage Inc.'s board on Tuesday approved a $4.8 billion cash offer for it to buy Mandalay Resort Group in a deal that would create the industry's dominant casino operator.

An Islamic Web site showed videotape Tuesday of a blindfolded American hostage in Saudi Arabia, and said abductors threatened to kill him unless Saudi authorities free al-Qaida prisoners within three days.

There's good news for Nevada motorists with the first day of summer less than a week away.

Friday's campaign stop by President Bush in Reno marks only the 13th visit to northern Nevada by a sitting president and the first since Bill Clinton attended the Lake Tahoe summit seven years ago.

A judge early Tuesday extended deadlines for ballot initiative petitioners who claimed harassment by public officials hampered their efforts to get enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 2 ballot.

Reno Police Chief Jerry Hoover said on Monday he's stepping down after seven years as Reno's top law enforcement officer to take a consulting position with an international firm.

Organizers of efforts to fund Nevada public schools to the national average and to raise the minimum wage said they turned in more than enough signatures on Monday to qualify their petitions for a spot on the November ballot.

The Supreme Court preserved the phrase "one nation, under God," in the Pledge of Allegiance, ruling Monday that a California atheist could not challenge the patriotic oath but sidestepping the broader question of separation of church and state.

Washoe County's most popular hiking destination is getting more accessible, thanks to construction of a $510,000 trailhead and welcome center and a new trail leading to the mountaintop.

A review of law enforcement data-sharing found that Nevada is the only state not filing information about sex offenders with a nationwide FBI database.

The longest criminal case involving an elected official in Nye County history has come to a close with the sentencing of former county Public Administrator Robert "Red" Dyer on the last of more than 30 charges.

A State Department report that incorrectly showed a decline last year in terrorism worldwide was a "big mistake," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library Sunday, and said he felt the same thrill of prior jumps even though his hopes of skydiving solo were dashed.

The practice of shipping marauding bears in the Lake Tahoe Basin out of town may be humane, but it's also ineffective, according to a study by wildlife experts.

Toxicology results are pending to try to determine what caused the death of a man during a struggle with officers, authorities said.

Suspected militants killed an American in the Saudi capital on Saturday, shooting him in the back as he parked in his home garage, and the U.S. Embassy said it was searching for an American who was missing.

A man charged with stalking a Reno doctor had been treated for mental illness and was described by a victim in a previous case as his family's "personal terrorist," authorities said.

In a final, majestic hail to the chief, the nation bade a lingering goodbye Friday to Ronald Reagan at a stately service in Washington under somber skies and at a hilltop burial ceremony in his beloved California beneath a setting sun.

Mandalay Resort Group rejected MGM Mirage Inc.'s $4.85 billion cash buyout offer that would have created the largest casino company in the world, saying Friday that the $68 per share bid was insufficient.

A lawyer for a former wildlife commissioner and his son accused of multiple hunting violations says his clients are innocent and the investigation amounts to a "witch hunt."

Former Lander County Sheriff Michael Glenn Kranovich, sentenced last year to federal prison for stealing federal funds while in office, was arrested Thursday on state charges.

Ronald Reagan lay in state Wednesday under the Capitol dome, his body borne to that historic place of tribute by horse-drawn carriage past thousands drawn to the high pageantry of America's first presidential state funeral in three decades.

A Fernley woman who mysteriously disappeared a week ago apparently died in a crash off a state highway down an embankment near the Truckee River north of Wadsworth, authorities said Wednesday.

Hoping to avoid partisan attacks, the Sept. 11 commission has drafted a final report that avoids placing blame on individuals in the Bush or Clinton administrations but sharply criticizes the FBI and intelligence agencies for missteps prior to the catastrophe.

The union representing Nevada Highway Patrol troopers is demanding management outline its plan to fix a new $10 million dollar radio system that leaves some troopers cut off from emergency dispatchers.