Suspected militants sprayed gunfire inside an oil contractor's Saudi office Saturday, killing at least six people, including two Americans and three other Westerners, and wounding dozens.

A group of off-road vehicle enthusiasts plans to stage a protest over an emergency closure of a portion of the Pine Nut Range to protect ancient fossils.

A panel comprised of members from three rural Nevada counties wants $330,000 to conduct studies of a proposed rail line that would carry nuclear waste shipments to a planned repository at Yucca Mountain.

A top official for the Bush-Cheney campaign said Sen. John Kerry cannot be trusted to lead the country in war, describing the Democratic presidential hopeful's stand on Iraq as one of "flip-flopping and retreat."

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio announced Friday he will seek re-election to the Nevada Senate.

A referendum to repeal Nevada's record $836 million tax increase likely will not qualify for the November ballot, the leader of the effort said Friday.

Michael Jackson pleaded not guilty Friday to a grand jury indictment charging him with child molestation and a conspiracy count involving allegations of child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.

A woman convicted in the death of a Reno motorcycle officer has been granted a two-day suspension from house arrest to marry her boyfriend before she is sentenced.

Chanting "four more years," Nevada Republicans rallied around the Bush-Cheney ticket at their state convention Thursday, predicting they will help re-elect him and give Democratic Sen. Harry Reid a run for his money.

Hoping to shape history's judgment, President Bush told the Sept. 11 commission Thursday his administration tried to protect America from terrorists as warnings grew before the devastating attack of 2001.

Nevada merchants in February sold $2.87 billion in goods, a 13.4 percent increase over the same month in 2003, the Nevada Department of Taxation reported Thursday.

A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public Thursday, giving veterans of that era a sense of recognition some say was long overdue but well worth the wait.

Police say the 12-year-old girl - who was a runaway - is recovering at home with her parents after being allegedly raped by two 15-year-old boys and 18-year-old Luis Baldovinez.

U.S. warplanes pounded Fallujah with 500-pound laser-guided bombs Wednesday and Marines battled insurgents near a train station and in neighborhoods that had seemed to be quieting. American forces decided to delay potentially dangerous patrols into the besieged city.

Strong winds kicked up dust storms across northern Nevada Wednesday, reducing visibility to near zero in some areas, forcing closure of some highways and upending at least one big rig on U.S. Interstate 80.

Two men are behind bars, accused of stealing a 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser belonging to a company owned by Reno Mayor Bob Cashell.

Washoe County commissioners have approved a special-use permit for an air-monitoring station near Gerlach, the first step in what could be the biggest coal-fired power plant in Nevada.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is closing 2,340 acres of public land in the Pine Nut Range to motorized off-road vehicles in an effort to protect ancient vertebrate fossils.

U.S. warplanes and artillery attacked Sunni insurgents holed up in a slum in a thunderous show of force that rocked Fallujah Tuesday, sending huge plumes of black smoke into the night sky. The assault came after American troops killed 64 gunmen near the southern city of Najaf.

The military is demanding two Sierra Nevada ski resorts return howitzers used for avalanche control, saying the weapons are needed by troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nevada mines produced 7.3 million ounces of gold in 2003, a decrease of about 5 percent from the previous year, the state Division of Minerals reported.

A Nevada congressman is calling for the Energy Department to detail how nuclear waste shipments to a planned Yucca Mountain repository would be protected from sabotage or a terrorist attack.

The Sparks City Council has temporarily banned new casinos outside the downtown core while it studies the effects of gambling in other areas of the city.

Nevada has been making headway in debt collections, taking in $3 million over the past three years, state Controller Kathy Augustine said.