Every St. Patrick's Day weekend Virginia City goes nuts... with their Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry, now in its 22nd year.

Travis Quast, vice president of sales and marketing at the Idaho Statesman in Boise for the past six years, has been named the new publisher of the Elko Daily Free Press in northeast Nevada and the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Partly cloudy and mild this weekend.

Wild horse advocates are praising an agreement with the department of agriculture and the non profit organizations American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, and the ASPCA. The agreement allows the department of agriculture to confiscate wild horses because of safety reasons. It then can sell them to the non-profits for $100 a piece.

A wide variety of entertainment options are available to northern Nevadans this St. Patrick's Day weekend.

The finalists for 'Project Vesto' have been announced, narrowing down a category of hundreds to just a dozen.

A man found dead in the backyard of his Spanish Springs home Tuesday night has been identified.

You could have an IRS refund waiting for you from 2009.

The winners of a Moana Nursery Photo Contest have been announced.

Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong tells KOLO 8 News Now two teens have been arrested following a rash of vandalism in Carson City in the overnight hours of Saturday.

One of the oldest theaters in northern Nevada is being threatened with foreclosure.

Another major election year awaits all of us in 2014. But the rules could change for Nevada voters for that election if a Senate Bill becomes law.

A California man has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for beating two women at a Lake Tahoe casino so severely that one victim suffered a miscarriage.

The company that brought gold and silver mining back to the historic Comstock region around Virginia City says the operation is proving as successful as expected and new discoveries have it optimistic about the future.

Cows are being blamed for causing a single-vehicle accident on U.S. 395 in Douglas County.

Nevada's unique law that allows voters to cast a ballot for "none of the above" is coming under new scrutiny over whether it's constitutional.

Nevada law bans teens from buying cigarettes. But nothing says they can't have the in their possession.

Police in Yerington have arrested two men after an investigation into drug activity and numerous burglaries.

An inadvertent hindrance in animal cruelty reporting created by a 2011 law is one step closer to being closed after Nevada senators passed a corrective measure through committee.

A state senator wants to close an omission he sees in Nevada law when it comes to teens and smoking.

A bill to allow school employees to carry guns on campus has been introduced in the Nevada Senate.

The drama surrounding embattled Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks continues.

Just two years removed from the first legal black bear hunt in Nevada, the state Senate is set to discuss a bill that would outlaw the hunts.

Health care reform will be in full swing in October. That's when those who don't have health insurance will start being required to buy it.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to begin a pair of prescribed fire operations this week on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, weather permitting.