Diamond Peak cranked up its brand new, high-speed chair lift on Thursday.

The state's jobless rate slipped to 4.5 percent during November, as the number of out-of-work Nevadans dropped by about 4,400 to 48,700 and total jobs in all industries topped 1.1 million.

Nevada's voter registration declined in the last two elections, but Secretary of State Dean Heller says the number of people who register could reach a record 1 million for the 2004 elections.

Nevada attorneys will now be able to advertise themselves as specialists in certain legal areas, the state Supreme Court says.

A 13-year-old boy admitted Thursday he tried to light a homemade bomb on a school bus full of students.

Several weeks ago we told you about a group of troubled Nevada teens sent to a military style school in Arizona called Project Challenge.

The investigation by Sparks police into the shooting death of Miles Deriso included a probe of a man's home for evidence of a contract killing, according to search warrants.

Humboldt County District Attorney David Allison says he plans to try at least one youth, if not two of them, as adults in last week's attack on staff at the county Juvenile Detention Center.

First, Carson City lost its Wal-Mart to neighboring Douglas County. Then, it lost its Kmart to Kmart's financial woes. But now, it's getting Wal-Mart back.

Of all the environmental threats facing the Lake Tahoe Basin, regulators now agree the greatest is fire.

Santa has an early Christmas present for Nevada motorists, especially the ones whose trip to grandfather's house involves a pretty good trek.

Placer County supervisors have given final approval to a major development in the Martis Valley between Truckee and North Lake Tahoe.

Washoe County's newest middle school will bear the name of the late Yvonne Shaw, who was a champion of American Indian education as a teacher and during her three terms on the state school board.

A $7 million federal budget cut will leave Nevada prisons with no treatment programs for inmates with alcohol or drug addiction problems by mid-2004, state officials say.

After hearing pleas from people who were adopted as children, Nevada lawmakers will again consider giving adults access to their adoption records.

A Washoe County family drug court judge arrested on suspicion of drunken driving will remain on the bench, but under close scrutiny.

A California woman was killed when hit by a sports utility vehicle pulling out of a driveway in Reno.

The wreckage of a small aircraft that disappeared over the weekend was found Tuesday about 9 miles north of the city's airport, authorities said.

Gov. Kenny Guinn said Tuesday that Nevada continues to diversify its economy, but the state must attract more tourists by extending its global reach and spurring new investment.

Two students and a teacher from a small Nevada school will be getting a look at some tiny fragments of the planet Mars next year.

A national group that lobbies against wasteful government spending named Rep. Jim Gibbons its "Porker of the Month" for securing federal money to fix a swimming pool in his home town.

Senator John Ensign, R-Nev., who was visiting Iraq when Saddam Hussein was captured said Tuesday that the deposed Iraqi leader should be tried by his own people and face the threat of death.

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.