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.

The creator of the long-running television series "Bonanza" says he's saddened by a plan to sell a western theme amusement park at Lake Tahoe that was inspired by the show.

Victim walks into drug store looking for help.

The Washoe County School District's annual campaign to get students to turn off their television sets is under way.

The power companytoday reports year-end losses of 140 (m) million dollars, or one-dollar-21 cents a share.

Congressman Jim Gibbons is focusing attention on the future of Nevada's military bases.

The Truckee Meadows Clean Cities Coalition is pushing for more cars and trucks to switch to bio-diesel for fuel.

Bogus 20's and 50's confiscated from a Reno man already on probation.

Unemployment rate drops, but number of available jobs declines.