CIA Director George Tenet, battered by Sept. 11 fallout and criticism of Iraq intelligence mistakes, said Thursday he would soon resign in a surprise announcement that threw open a key position at a critical time in the war against terrorism.
University officials who might ask the Legislature for a tax increase next year to support their construction wish list may need a backup plan.
Nevada's child welfare agency could lose more than $300,000 in funding for failing to meet national performance standards for foster care, adoption and child protective services, officials said.
Bears are on the prowl in northern Nevada, scrounging through garbage cans, cars and even houses in search of food from the forested neighborhoods of Lake Tahoe to the apartment rows of south Reno.
The owners of the Ormsby House hotel-casino said Wednesday they hope to have the hotel reopened before the 2005 Legislature convenes next February.
The victims of Monday's plane crash in California's Mother Lode country have been identified as a Stateline woman who wanted to become a commercial airline pilot and a Gardnerville man who owned the plane.
Thousands of soldiers who had expected to retire or otherwise leave the military will be required to stay if their units are ordered to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Nevada's investor-owned electric utilities are asking a federal appeals court to overturn hundreds of millions of dollars in high-priced power contracts, alleging market manipulation by Enron Corp. and others.
A Reno lawyer has dropped a lawsuit against Coors Brewing Co. filed for the mother of a teenager who died in a car wreck while he was driving drunk.
Responding to criticism from Nevada peace activists, Rep. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that Iraq will become a "haven for terrorists" if U.S. troops withdraw too soon.
The University of Nevada introduced Mark Fox as its new men's basketball head coach at a press conference held at the Hall of Fame room in Legacy Hall on Tuesday.
In a ruling with coast-to-coast effect, a federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Tuesday, saying it infringes on a woman's right to choose.
Iraqi officials prevailed in their choice for president over the candidate favored by the United States, allowing a U.N. envoy Tuesday to appoint an interim government reflecting Iraq's religious and cultural diversity to rule after the return of sovereignty June 30.
Nevada lawmakers are in line for a letter encouraging them to release telephone numbers and e-mail addresses so that it's easy for people to reach them.
The Nevada Corrections Department says it could do a better job of running a women's prison in North Las Vegas than a private company - but costs would go up by at least $1 million a year.
Backers and critics of the war in Iraq joined Monday to plant 800 small American flags on the lawn of the federal courthouse to honor the U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq.
A Sparks girl who had been the target of a search since she disappeared on a hike in the Ruby Mountains on Saturday apparently fell off a cliff to her death, Elko County Sheriff Neil Harris said Monday.
More than 12 million acres of Nevada are infested this summer with crawling carpets of Mormon crickets, twice as much land as last year.
President Bush observed Memorial Day on Monday with praise for the "fierce courage" of U.S. servicemembers in Afghanistan and Iraq and said "two terror regimes" are gone and America is safer because of their bravery.
Powerful storms again swept across the Midwest and beyond, knocking out power to thousands of customers and spawning tornadoes that leveled buildings and hurled mobile homes through the air. At least nine deaths were blamed on the storms during the weekend and on Monday.
Priests denied Holy Communion on Sunday to a group of rainbow sash-wearing gay activists who showed up to protest a directive from Chicago's prelate that they violated church teachings by advertising their homosexuality.
No new applications for pier projects will be accepted at Lake Tahoe until early next year, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency board decided.
Signs honoring veterans of five wars will go up this summer along segments of U.S. 95 in northern Nevada.
Pat Tillman was probably killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan after a U.S. solider mistakenly shot at an Afghan soldier in the former NFL player's unit, military officials said Saturday.
America dedicated a memorial Saturday to the fast-thinning ranks of World War II veterans, a poignant last hurrah drawing together tens of thousands of old soldiers, sailors and heroes of the home front.
