Updated: 4:32 PM Starting in November, there'll be a new look to Nevada license plates. The Department of Motor Vehicles is going high tech

Updated: 9:24 PM Federal, state and local officials Tuesday unveiled the city's new, state-of-the-art water treatment plant designed to remove arsenic from drinking water.

Updated: 7:07 PM Conceding a couple of "tough weeks in Iraq," President Bush signaled Tuesday night he is ready to increase American troop strength in the country, adding he intends to "finish the work of the fallen" and usher in a new era of democracy.

Updated: 12:53 PM A more nimble FBI and CIA working together might have uncovered the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist plot, the commission investigating the attacks said Tuesday, laying out an agonizing series of missed opportunities, half measures and bureaucratic inertia.

Updated: 6:53 AM Some Nevada senior citizens say they fear losing their homes to the state after the Nevada Supreme Court upheld state liens on the estates of people who received Medicaid health care costs.

Updated: 6:55 AM A Sparks police officer has been cleared in the December shooting death of a man outside a convenience store.

Updated: 9:44 PM Reno's downtown train trench project will begin a new phase Tuesday when rail traffic is switched to a temporary bypass track, city officials said.

Updated: 9:42 PM Just one day after President Bush received a pre-Sept. 11 briefing on al-Qaida's effort to strike on U.S. soil, senior government executives received a similarly titled memo that excluded information about current threats and investigations, say federal officials who have read both documents.

Updated: 10:14 AM Students at Reno's McQueen High School are forming a gay-straight alliance.

Updated: 9:38 PM Elko County commissioners said they will take the lead if necessary to push the federal government into controlling wild horse populations in Nevada.

Updated: 7:33 PM A fragile cease-fire held between Sunni insurgents and U.S. Marines on Sunday in the besieged city of Fallujah, where Iraqis said more than 600 civilians were killed in the past week. Near Baghdad, gunmen shot down a U.S. attack helicopter, killing two crewmembers.

Updated: 11:04 AM From the brittle hillsides of Southern California to the drying fields of Idaho, from Montana to New Mexico, a relentless drought is worsening across most of the West, water supplies are dwindling and the threat of wildfires is rising.

Updated: 7:28 PM President Bush insisted Sunday he was satisfied that federal agents were on top of the terrorist threat after reading a pre-Sept. 11 briefing detailing Osama bin Laden's intentions on U.S. soil.

Updated: 11:03 AM University Regent Jack Schofield has broken his silence on sexual harassment claims made against him, contending they are a result of his vote to demote a college official.

Updated: 11:04 AM Nevada officials have criticized reports that their men's basketball team had one of the worst graduation rates of any team in the NCAA tournament's "Sweet Sixteen."

Updated: 8:04 PM President Bush was told more than a month before the Sept. 11 attacks that al-Qaida had reached America's shores, had a support system in place for its operatives and that the FBI had detected suspicious activity that might involve a hijacking plot.

Updated: 10:14 AM Nevada ranks 39th nationally for its high school graduation rate and dead last for the number of students who go directly to college after graduation, according to a report.

Updated: 10:42 AM Government negotiators entered the besieged city of Fallujah Saturday as fierce battles raged elsewhere in central Iraq, including Baghdad.

Updated: 8:23 PM President Bush has spent about $40 million in campaign ads in recent weeks aimed at defeating Democrat John Kerry, but the president has problems of his own: growing doubts about Iraq and worries about the economy.

Updated: 10:38 AM The St. Paul insurance companies, whose pullout from the medical malpractice insurance market caused a crisis for Nevada doctors, will pay a group of Las Vegas physicians $900,000 under terms of a settlement announced Friday.

Updated: 8:17 PM A U.S. AC-130 gunship raked insurgents Friday night after hundreds of women and children fled the besieged city of Fallujah during a U.S.-declared pause in the Marine offensive.

Updated: 8:13 PM Fallon's new arsenic-filtering water treatment plant goes on line Tuesday, and that will give the district time to turn on drinking fountains at all nine Fallon schools.

Updated: 8:10 PM Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co. want exemptions from requirements of the state's renewable energy law to avoid being fined for not meeting those terms.

Updated: 8:07 PM A new, upscale mall is being proposed for the Sparks Marina area to replace the shuttered outlet mall just east of the recreational area.

Updated: 10:51 PM Under sharp questioning, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice insisted Thursday that President Bush fully understood the threat of terrorism before Sept. 11, 2001, but no intelligence foretold the deadliest attack ever on American soil.