The governor of tourism-dependent Nevada joined Friday in a request by members of the state's congressional delegation for a Federal Trade Commission review of skyrocketing gasoline prices.

Roadside memorials for people killed in traffic accidents would be allowed to stand for only two years under a draft proposal by the state Department of Transportation.

The Nevada Supreme Court agreed Friday to let a condemned inmate withdraw an appeal that could help him avoid a lethal injection for strangling a woman at a downtown Reno motel.

New tests show extremely high levels of uranium in groundwater beneath an abandoned northern Nevada copper mine, and federal regulators say more tests are needed to determine if nearby wells could be contaminated.

The state Board of Medical Examiners unanimously rejected its own report recommending competency examinations for doctors Friday, saying such tests would be redundant and could have a chilling effect on keeping and recruiting physicians.

A January win of $882.1 million for Nevada casinos pushed their fiscal-year total to $5.71 billion - but Gov. Kenny Guinn said Thursday the total amounts to a "paltry" 1.8 percent gain from a year ago.

The parent company of Heavenly Ski Resort plans another $10 million worth of upgrades to its lone property outside Colorado.

A former tunnel worker at the nation's nuclear waste dump in the Nevada desert filed suit Thursday against Energy Department contractors, claiming the companies deliberately exposed employees to toxic dust at the Yucca Mountain project.

MTR Gaming Group Inc. is now the new owner of the legendary Binion's Horseshoe hotel-casino after a series of delays hung up the transaction.

Nevadans are less likely to have graduate or professional degrees than residents of any other state except Mississippi, according to newly released Census Bureau calculations.

Republican Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt says she'll run for governor in 2006, striving to be Nevada's first female governor.

Ten terrorist bombs tore through trains and stations along a commuter line at the height of Madrid's morning rush hour Thursday, killing more than 170 people and wounding at least 600 before this weekend's general elections.

Washoe County teachers will get a 4.5 percent pay increase over the life of a 2-year contract approved by trustees.

Research on Mars is helping scientists better understand the life cycles of deserts on Earth and the potential to tap aquifers deep beneath the ground, an expert said Wednesday.

Some election officials and members of Congress who oppose paper-trail devices for electronic voting machines - so people have a record of how they voted - were criticized Wednesday by Nevada's top election official.

Although the West's drought is easing slightly, communities will continue to face water challenges because of booming populations and endangered species protection, an Interior Department official said.

Nevada has been awarded federal funding to recruit and train an elite team of 22 highly skilled, full-time National Guard members to serve as the state's Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Team.

Nevada officials said Tuesday they're trying to calculate the cost of replacing potentially hazardous buses used to take students to and from schools and to haul prison fire crews to and from forest fires.

Some Nevada veterans living at the state's skilled nursing home in Boulder City are in line for a severe case of sticker shock.

Improper spending of millions of dollars on the wrong communications equipment for the Nevada Highway Patrol won't result in any criminal charges, the state attorney general's office says.

More than 2,500 people are expected at the funeral Thursday for former Gov. Mike O'Callaghan, who died Friday at age 74.

No Nevada resident will be safe this year from the legions of volunteers armed with clipboards and looking to bolster the ranks of registered voters.

A contract to buy more than 4,500 electronic voting machines and move Nevada voters into the computer age is up for a final vote by the state Board of Examiners on Tuesday.

Convicted killers sent to death row in Nevada are more likely to die of natural causes than be executed against their will.

The federal Bureau of Land Management is considering paying ranchers in Nevada and other Western states to care for wild horses removed from federal rangeland, instead of shipping them to sanctuaries in the Midwest.