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.

One of the area's most respected judges, known nationwide for creating a family drug court, was arrested for driving under the influence.

An undercover Sparks police officer in the gang unit shot and killed a 23-year-old suspect who tried to escape by ramming a police vehicle, Reno police said Wednesday.

Four months into the fiscal year, Nevada casinos have posted winnings that are just 1.2 percent above the same period a year earlier.

The $5.8 million legislators set aside last summer to cover unexpected health-care costs for public employees probably won't meet statewide needs, Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn says.

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., was overseas Wednesday on an official trip that will include a stop in Iraq, his spokesman Jack Finn said.

Two 13-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of felony gun charges after a loaded gun was found at their Reno middle school.

A wet, winter storm that dumped another foot of snow in the Sierra snarled traffic around Lake Tahoe and brought snow to the valley floors Wednesday around Reno and Carson City.

Max Baer Jr. has gone to court in efforts to build his proposed $54 million Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino in a shopping center he shares with The Glenbrook Co. and J.C. Penney.

Three former Nevada Highway Patrol troopers filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday accusing ex-state public safety director Richard Kirkland and others of conspiring to force them out through harassment and reprisals in a "hostile" workplace.

A missing 18-year-old snowboarder spent a cold night in the wild Sierra before a search and rescue team found him near Lake Tahoe, sheriff's deputies said Tuesday.

Weekend storms have filled Lake Tahoe back up to its rim, which sits 6,223 feet above sea level.