A search expanded Tuesday for a small aircraft with two people on board that authorities said might have crashed during snow showers over the weekend near Tonopah.

Blood was found in the sports-utility vehicle driven by Juan Carlos Tellez, who is being held in the Salt Lake County Jail and investigated in the disappearance of a Carson City, Nev., woman, according to a court document.

U.S. intelligence agencies are turning their efforts toward rounding up remaining principals of Saddam Hussein's regime who may be playing a more direct role than the now-captured former president did in running guerrilla operations in Iraq, officials say.

The hum of chain saws and clanking of steel on steel have replaced the buzz of summer crowds as officials push forward the largest effort to transform Yosemite National Park since its inception in 1890.

The percentage of Nevada high school and middle school students who say they've attempted suicide has declined over the past two years.

A rock climbing group filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court challenging a U.S. Forest Service management plan that bans climbing on Cave Rock, a landmark on Lake Tahoe's east shore.

A relatively brief but intense storm dumped up to 16 inches of snow Sunday in the Sierra Nevada to help set up ski resorts for the Christmas holidays.

Three University of Nevada football players accused of beating up a fellow student and fracturing his skull plan to fight the charges, their lawyers said.

Sinbad joined a group of well wishers at a sendoff for nearly 100 Nevada Army Guard members who began their deployment in support of the war against terrorism.

Fallon-area farmers are praising a federal judge's ruling in a Truckee River water dispute, saying it spares them their precious water.

Sen. John Ensign thinks he couldn't have picked a better time to take a fact-finding trip to Iraq.

Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., called Saturday for congressional hearings of Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, calling allegations that it overcharged for fuel in Iraq "an absolute outrage."

Newmont Mining Corp. has cleared a big hurdle in its bid to open a major mine near Battle Mountain.

Douglas County commissioners expressed relief after Carson City supervisors' vote to drop a lawsuit over the sale of 144 acres of public land to two Carson City auto dealers.

Dealers at Harrah's Reno are suing the hotel casino and the Internal Revenue Service. They say hundreds of thousands of dollars of their tip money is being witheld without their consent.

Authorities reviewing the deaths of six elderly residents of a northern Nevada convalescent home say all died the same day of natural causes although it's not clear whether any were flu victims.

Clemency requests from a former death row inmate and from a man convicted in a contract killing case were granted Friday by the Nevada Pardons Board.

A former Harrah's Reno bartender fired for refusing to wear makeup has taken her sex-discrimination lawsuit to a federal appeals court.

Police investigating the shooting death of the ex-husband of a Sparks judge have ruled out the judge as a suspect and are focusing their probe on an ex-felon who said the victim stabbed him before the fatal shooting.

This week President Bush declared December "National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month," encouraging police to crack down on DUI.

The recent deaths of six elderly people in northwest Nevada are being investigated to see if they were caused by the flu, state health authorities said Thursday.

A federal sting in Reno led to the arrest of a New Mexico man accused of traveling to Nevada to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he thought he had talked with on the Internet.

The U.S. Supreme Court's backing Wednesday of broad campaign finance restrictions has provoked new debate among Nevadans on whether the promise of cleaning up money in politics outweighs limiting political speech.

The Nevada Supreme Court has refused to throw out a one-year jail sentence given an Elko County man convicted of conspiring to possess a small amount of marijuana.

Washoe County has agreed to settle lawsuits against the sheriff's office by paying more than $230,000 damages to families of two dead men - one who died at the county jail and another who was shot to death by a deputy.