Nevada's jobless rate remained unchanged in March at 4.4 percent, but the state continued to lead the nation in job growth over the past year.

After a long 2 1/2 years of recovery, the Reno airport says last month's passenger count was the largest since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Iraqi leaders named a tribunal of judges and prosecutors to try Saddam Hussein, placing a longtime opponent of the ousted dictator in the forefront of the case against him and his former Baathist inner circle, a spokesman announced Tuesday.

The former president of Sierra Nevada College has been sentenced in Washoe District Court to three years in a diversion program for drug and alcohol abuse.

Republicans continue to hold a thin lead over Democrats as statewide voter registration numbers edge toward the 900,000 mark.

The mayor of rural Caliente said his town would welcome the jobs that could come if a railhead is built nearby for shipment of nuclear waste to a Nevada nuclear waste dump.

Military-techno writer Dale Brown pleaded guilty Monday to filing a false 1998 income tax return with more than $440,000 in fraudulent expenses as part of an offshore tax evasion scheme, federal prosecutors said.

The Lake Tahoe Basin is no stranger to fires, avalanches and snow, and a University of Nevada, Reno geology professor says earthquakes and tidal waves are not out of the question.

Facing a stream of special events that might attract terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced plans Monday to bolster the nation's security on two fronts.

Washoe County School Superintendent Jim Hager has tested the No Child Left Behind Act for two years and says it gets a failing grade.

A convicted felon was arrested on suspicion of swindling two Reno residents out of thousands of dollars after pretending he was a self-employed real estate agent who would soon inherit $2.1 billion, officers said.

An exhibit featuring 29 works by impressionist masters such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas will open next week at the Nevada Museum of Art.

Democrat John Kerry on Sunday accused President Bush of being "stunningly ineffective" at foreign policy and stuck by his argument that the war against terrorism isn't primarily a military struggle.

A Las Vegas woman has launched an initiative drive to roll back auto, homeowners and medical malpractice insurance rates by 20 percent - and to provide an additional 20 percent reduction for good drivers.

Iraqi security forces will not be ready to protect the country against insurgents by the June 30 handover of power, the top U.S. administrator said Sunday — an assessment aimed at defending the continued heavy presence of U.S. troops here even after an Iraqi government takes over.

Spain's prime minister on Sunday ordered Spanish troops pulled out of Iraq as soon as possible, fulfilling a campaign pledge to a nation recovering from terrorist bombings that al-Qaida militants said were reprisal for Spain's support of the war.

Since the start of a building boom spurred by the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, development and car exhaust have been blamed for Lake Tahoe's declining clarity.

Declaring the Patriot Act a vital tool in the war on terror, President Bush says Congress would place the nation at greater risk of attack if it fails to renew the law's wide-ranging law enforcement powers.

Israel assassinated Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in a missile strike on his car Saturday, part of its declared campaign to wipe out the Islamic militant group's leadership ahead of a planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The body of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin was found Saturday, revealed by the spring thaw in an area volunteers had searched several times during the five months she had been missing, searchers said Saturday.

A Reno woman has sued Coors Brewing Co. over her son's death in a traffic accident, claiming it promotes underage drinking.

Construction defects along a portion of newly rebuilt Interstate 80 in Reno and Sparks should be completed in about a month, state officials said.

Union leaders launched an initiative drive Friday for a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage in Nevada to $6.15 an hour, $1 more than the federal standard.

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, standing united on two turbulent fronts, endorsed giving the United Nations broad control over Iraq's political future Friday and said a much-criticized Israeli settlement withdrawal plan is a solid move toward Mideast peace.

Nevada has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an emergency order blocking shipment of radioactive waste from Ohio to the federal Nevada Test Site.