The National Transportation Safety Board has issued recommendation letters to several firefighting and aviation agencies regarding new maintenence programs for aircrafts used in firefighting missions.

A 41-year-old man has been arrested on charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a minor,

Activists celebrating Earth Day predicted environmental issues will play a key role in Nevada's fall elections - from the statehouse to the White House.

Women in Nevada earn 77 cents for each dollar that men do, and minority women earn even less, according to a report released this week by a national women's group.

The Energy Department has begun a broad review of Yucca Mountain project technical documents after auditors said shortcomings could delay Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing for the national nuclear waste dump.

A high-profile Nevada taxpayers group is opposing three referendums seeking to repeal taxes enacted by the 2003 Legislature.

Airport security remains lax despite billions of dollars and thousands of federal employees added since the Sept. 11 attacks, lawmakers were told Thursday.

An Oregon man has been arrested on drug charges after a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper found Methamphetamine hidden in a baby's diaper.

Leaders of the Nevada Conservation League issued a scorecard Wednesday that they say will help voters decide which state legislators to support based on their environmental records.

Suicide attackers unleashed car bombings against police buildings in Iraq's biggest Shiite city Wednesday morning, striking rush-hour crowds and killing at least 68 people, including 16 children incinerated in their school buses.

Nevada received a payment of $38 million from the tobacco industry to cover its share of a settlement that ended cigarette litigation by states in 1998.

More people visited the Reno-Sparks area for the first time in 2003 than the year before and more of them flew in, according to a visitor profile.

Lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles were no longer than normal and the driver's license pictures were as unflattering as ever on Wednesday, one day after a computer problem shut down the system statewide.

Kathi Testa-Smith has dedicated her life to help launch a "Victims Rights Amendment" that is appearing before the United States Senate this week.

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.