Updated: 4:56 PM Nevada's two major electric utilities would avoid fines for not meeting a mandate to have at least 5 percent of their power coming from solar, geothermal, wind and other "green" sources by 2003, under terms of a pending order from regulators.

Updated: 10:13 PM Another wildfire broke out Monday along the eastern Sierra Nevada and prompted the evacuation of a Marine Corps housing unit.

Updated: 10:11 PM Seven wild horses died in a remote northeast Nevada enclosure because of a mistake by a Bureau of Land Management employee, an agency investigation found.

Updated: 5:11 PM Iraq's new leaders reclaimed their nation two days early, accepting limited power Monday from U.S. occupiers, who wished them prosperity and handed them a staggering slate of problems - including a lethal insurgency the Americans admit they underestimated.

Updated: 5:05 PM The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the war on terrorism does not give the government a "blank check" to hold a U.S. citizen and foreign-born terror suspects in legal limbo, a forceful denunciation of Bush administration tactics since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Updated: 5:02 PM About $35 million generated by a recent auction of federal land near Las Vegas would be used to purchase prime Lake Tahoe real estate under a proposal recommended by federal officials.

Updated: 4:59 PM Higher humidity and cooler temperatures aided firefighters in their battle Sunday against a 2,116-acre wildfire along the eastern Sierra Nevada.

Updated: 4:55 PM Officials are cracking down on what they call the newest contraband to turn up in Nevada prisons: cell phones.

Updated: 5:13 AM The on-again, off-again Reno Skyfire Fourth of July fireworks show is on again.

Updated: 5:13 AM If the election were held today, President Bush would get 49 percent and John Kerry 44 percent in northwest Nevada, according to a poll conducted shortly after Bush's visit to Reno earlier this month.

Updated: 5:14 AM Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Sunday canceled an appearance at the U.S. Conference of Mayors rather than cross a promised police union picket line at the event.

Updated: 5:14 AM A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a truck in Genoa, authorities said.

Updated: 5:15 AM A ledger documenting the purchase of a mining claim by Mark Twain and his brother in Nevada was sold for $4,370 at auction to the University of Nevada, Reno.

Updated: 5:15 AM A 55-year-old Reno man was arrested on suspicion of murdering his elderly parents and leaving the bodies in their house for at least a week before notifying authorities about a "medical problem."

Updated: 5:15 AM A judge acknowledges a system failure occurred when bail was reduced for a sexual assault suspect who later was accused of shooting his wife and abducting three daughters.

Updated: 11:31 PM With European Union support in hand, President Bush looked to seal an agreement for NATO to help stabilize Iraq as its fledgling government takes over this week. He shrugged off lingering European resentment of the war, saying "We'll just let the chips fall where they may."

Updated: 11:25 PM High winds were hampering firefighters in their battle Saturday against a 400-acre wildfire that threatened a Marine housing facility along the eastern Sierra Nevada.

Updated: 5:15 AM Reno police were questioning the son of an elderly couple whose bodies were found Friday in the garage of their upscale home.

Updated: 5:16 AM The House on Friday approved a $28 billion measure financing energy and water programs that provides far less than President Bush proposed for building a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada.

Updated: 9:28 PM A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to explain what prevents it from listing three rare species found in Idaho, New Mexico and at Lake Tahoe as endangered.

Updated: 5:16 AM The chairman of a House forest subcommittee said Friday the U.S. Forest Service could have the first group of decades-old heavy air tankers, grounded last month, under contract to fight fires by July 4.

Updated: 12:51 PM A Nevada agency can collect about $3.1 million in additional federal Medicaid funds if it fully bills the program for services provided to children over the past two years, an audit has found.

Updated: 10:39 PM A judge has rejected the Douglas County Commission’s approval of a 1,476-acre subdivision on scenic forest and meadow land in the Clear Creek Canyon area, just south of Carson City.

Updated: 10:36 PM Nevadans are being encouraged to offer symbolic state themes that could be used on a new quarter to be produced by the U.S. Mint.

Updated: 10:35 PM An initiative to legalize possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana in Nevada might go up in smoke, after organizers forgot to file 6,000 petition signatures in southern Nevada.