Updated: 11:09 PM A U.S. Forest Service climbing ban on a Lake Tahoe landmark is unconstitutional because it promotes religion, a rock climbing group contends.

Updated: 11:05 PM The Truckee Meadows is a cleaner place to live tonight thanks to Operation Weed and Seed.

Updated: 8:48 PM Catholic opponents of same-sex marriage held a prayer march Saturday, criticizing city officials who have licensed thousands of weddings for gay couples and calling for a federal amendment banning the unions.

Updated: 8:45 PM Some members of the California and Nevada congressional delegations have joined the fight to keep the Lake Tahoe Airport tower open.

Updated: 8:43 PM Snowmobilers and environmentalists are clashing over a new national snowmobile festival designed to promote the Reno-Tahoe area as "America's Adventure Place."

Updated: 8:40 PM Local officials battling an invasive weed that causes environmental problems at Lake Tahoe are facing more bad news: the discovery of another non-native aquatic plant.

Updated: 8:10 PM Another lackluster winter has Northern Nevada facing a fifth year of drought, experts said.

Updated: 8:08 PM The Nevada Supreme Court was asked Friday to quickly resolve uncertainty over an attorney general's opinion limiting service by full-time public employees in the state's part-time Legislature.

Updated: 8:05 PM The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is studying how to reinforce Stampede and Prosser Creek dams above Reno to make them safer during a major earthquake or flood.

Updated: 8:03 PM Douglas County commissioners have approved the development of the historic Adams Ranch north of Genoa.

Updated: 7:59 PM A Reno man with a history of theft convictions has been sentenced as a career criminal to nine life prison terms.

Posted: 10:31 PM Another lackluster winter has northern Nevada facing a fifth year of drought, experts said.

Updated: 10:44 PM The Democratic Party finds itself in its most confident and comfortable financial position in years, though it still trails Republicans in almost every fund-raising category.

Updated: 10:26 PM After more than two months of uneasy silence, Binion's Horseshoe was once again filled with the sound of spinning roulette wheels and clinking slot machines as the landmark casino reopened.

Updated: 10:24 PM Medical care of inmates at the state women's prison in North Las Vegas is substandard, the medical director for the Nevada Department of Corrections says.

Updated: 10:22 PM Sen. Harry Reid criticized an Energy Department contract with a law firm that was hired to handle an application to operate a radioactive waste repository in Nevada.

Updated: 4:22 PM A new Forest Service plan will eliminate nearly 13 miles of trails in two popular Lake Tahoe recreation areas and prohibit mountain bike riders from leaving established trails.

Updated: 4:21 PM In a scene reminiscent of Somalia, frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four American contractors through the streets of a town west of Baghdad on Wednesday and strung two of them up from a bridge after rebels ambushed their SUVs.

Updated: 4:16 PM The federal Energy Department is dusting off a backup plan to ship radioactive waste by truck through rural Nevada in the first years of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

Updated: 4:13 PM A jury has awarded $900,000 to the family of a Reno contractor who was blinded and burned by a chemical product used to break open large rocks.

Updated: 4:11 PM A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the authority of Lake Tahoe land-use officials to regulate the scenic impacts of "monster homes" along the lake's shore.

Updated: 7:53 AM Nevada basketball coach Trent Johnson agreed Tuesday to a new five-year deal that nearly doubles his annual pay to $450,000, saying he couldn't look himself in the mirror if he abandoned the Wolf Pack now.

Updated: 10:14 PM Nevada coach Trent Johnson is trying to persuade star junior swingman Kirk Snyder to return next year unless an NBA coach guarantees he'll be a first-round draft pick.

Updated: 5:47 AM Paul McCartney capped a ski vacation at Lake Tahoe with an impromptu performance at the same Sierra Nevada restaurant where he entertained surprised diners last year.

Updated: 10:09 PM President Bush agreed Tuesday to do what he had insisted for weeks he would not: allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly and under oath before an independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.