Updated: 6:33 AM Nevada will open the first U.S. tourism office in China next month, officials announced Wednesday.

Updated: 2:00 PM Carson City officials worry that water purchased by Douglas County from a Carson City ranch to supply its growing retail hub along the county line will siphon its own supplies.

Updated: 11:09 PM Presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry is sitting down for a much-anticipated meeting with independent Ralph Nader, but there's little sign they'll alter this year's political dynamic when they get together.

Updated: 11:04 PM President Bush rolled out a powerful political weapon Tuesday in his quest to boost sagging approval ratings and get re-elected: his wife.

Updated: 5:48 PM Lake Tahoe's clarity decreased last year, slowing a trend of steady improvement that had seen the cobalt mountain waters reach their clearest level in a decade, researchers said Tuesday.

Updated: 2:29 PM The former police and fire chiefs who were lionized after the World Trade Center attack came under harsh criticism Tuesday from the Sept. 11 commission, with one member saying the departments' lack of cooperation was scandalous and "not worthy of the Boy Scouts."

Updated: 2:25 PM Churchill County commissioners are pursuing a plan for a formal buffer zone around Naval Air Station Fallon to help maintain existing zoning patterns and guard against encroaching development.

Updated: 10:14 PM U.S. soldiers found a roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent in Baghdad, the military said Monday. The device, which partially detonated, was apparently a leftover from Saddam Hussein's arsenals. It was unclear whether more such weapons were in the hands of insurgents.

Updated: 10:10 PM Gay couples began exchanging marriage vows here Monday, marking the first time a state has granted gays and lesbians the right to marry and making the United States one of four countries where homosexuals can legally wed.

Updated: 10:08 PM Wild horse advocates opposed to increased roundups on Nevada range lands plan to demonstrate outside a U.S. Bureau of Land Management hearing next month.

Updated: 10:06 PM A Reno scientist and his team of researchers have uncovered the mystery of why the Earth wobbles on its axis as it spins through space.

Updated: 10:02 PM Democrat John Kerry said Sunday that President Bush has turned his back on the American worker by allowing other countries to break trade deals negotiated with the United States and that as president he would put in place a "common-sense" effort to strengthen the bargaining and enforcement of such agreements.

Updated: 6:26 AM Reno is among the nation's best places to live, according to a national magazine.

Updated: 5:09 PM Like fans anxious for concert tickets, same-sex couples waited in line for hours Sunday outside Cambridge's City Hall for an event they once thought they'd never get to experience: marriage.

Updated: 6:31 AM A former officer of The Children's Community Chest of Reno has pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud.

Updated: 5:04 PM The Sparks-based Holder Hospitality Group has purchased four casinos in northeast Nevada, including two landmark gambling halls in Elko.

Updated: 11:55 PM A nine-day strike by garbage workers in the Reno area ended after they ratified a new contract Saturday.

Updated: 11:53 PM President Bush's job approval ratings are hitting the lowest levels of his tenure as problems in Iraq crowd out other issues for voters, public opinion specialists say.

Updated: 11:50 PM Sierra Pacific Power Co. is seeking approval for an average 5.3 percent increase in natural gas rates for its 125,000 customers in the Reno area.

Updated: 10:14 AM More than 225 recipients of the state's Millennium Scholarships received diplomas Saturday at the University of Nevada, Reno's commencement exercises.

Updated: 10:14 AM A Reno High School teacher was suspended for his alleged failure to immediately report a student's charge that a female classmate held a knife to his throat.

Updated: 11:43 PM Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., is coming to President Bush's defense as recent polls show the war in Iraq is eroding public support for Bush.

Updated: 9:53 PM Nevada candidates crowded into election officials' offices around the state Friday to meet a filing deadline - and erase the hopes of several incumbents that they'd get a free ride into office.

Updated: 9:48 PM A Nevada National Guard soldier said she complained after a prisoner at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison was shot and killed during a riot last year, but denied she documented abuse of inmates by her fellow soldiers.

Updated: 9:46 PM U.S.-led coalition forces would leave Iraq if a new interim government should ask them to, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday, but such a request is unlikely.