Washoe County School District trustees have unanimously approved construction of a $26 million middle school in Cold Springs.

Regulations that will enable the state to start gathering nearly $500 million in new payroll and live entertainment taxes were approved Tuesday by the Nevada Tax Commission - after four months of hearings and workshops on the rules.

Investigators began a detailed examination Tuesday of a truck they hope will provide clues in the case of a woman missing since Nov. 10, when her 3-year-old son said she had been killed by a man now in custody in Utah.

More Nevadans are planning to take to the skies and highways over the Thanksgiving holiday, AAA Nevada said Tuesday.

President Bush visited Las Vegas on Tuesday, hoping to raise funds and support among Nevada residents, who turned out in force to show their anger at his decisions to approve Yucca Mountain and reform Medicare.

An April 22 trial date has been set in Dayton Justice Court for former Motley Crue singer Vince Neil, who is accused of battery on a prostitute at a Nevada brothel.

A legislative panel studying disability issues plans to focus on access problems in state-funded public buildings after fielding complaints about two sports facilities at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Washoe County judges want to know how at least seven inmates, some with a history of violence, were erroneously released from the county jail despite court orders to keep them in custody.

A triple shooting has left a mother and father dead and their seven-year-old son in the hospital.

Thousands of Wells Fargo Bank customers are being told to check their credit and watch out for fraud.

A new AFL-CIO poll showed that 78 percent of seniors surveyed say the legislation doesn't do enough to protect retired Americans who are now covered by employer-provided prescription drug plans.

The Senate cleared the way Monday for final congressional passage of landmark legislation to add a prescription drug benefit and a free-enterprise flavor to Medicare.

Nevada Sens. Harry Reid, a Democrat, and John Ensign, a Republican, both said Monday that they were voting against a $400 billion Medicare reform bill sought by President Bush - but for completely different reasons.

An antitax group trying to recall Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn gave up Monday, with a leader saying not enough signatures were gathered to qualify the recall question for ballot position.

Washoe County's Regional Transportation Commission is looking for ways to generate new interest in the Reno-area bus system and increase ridership.

Despite a wet summer and early snowstorms, the level of Lake Tahoe leaves no doubt these are dry times in the Sierra.

School children in Washoe County would begin classes in early August and be out for the summer in May under a proposal being weighed by district officials.

Congressional action to ease wildfire danger by increasing the thinning of forests also is behind efforts to assure that environmental regulations at Lake Tahoe don't increase fire danger there.

Investigators returned to Carson City on Sunday with a truck they hope will hold clues to the disappearance of a mother of three.

When the Mount Rose and Boreal ski areas opened this month, they needed two elements — enough snow and enough people.

Forty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, an overwhelming majority of Americans do not believe the official conclusion that a loser named Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed the president with a cheap mail-order rifle fired from the Texas School Book Depository.

President Bush broke his campaign promise to Nevadans and rushed ahead with plans to develop a national nuclear waste repository in the state, the speaker of the Nevada Assembly said Saturday in the weekly Democratic radio address.

For the second time in just under two years, car thieves in the Reno-Sparks area are on the prowl for Saturns.

The organization that tried unsuccessfully to change the law last year to allow adults to smoke marijuana is back in Nevada testing a new strategy.

We were the first to tell you about the arrest of Juan Tellez, the man police wanted for questioning in connection to the disappearance of Bertha Anguiano. Tonight he is in jail in Salt Lake City, Utah.