The 238 House members, many of whom are Tea Party freshmen, are from districts that have been fueled with anti-government rhetoric, who lash out against everything from health care reform to immigr...

It was a perfect day for Burning Man guests Friday as the winds stayed calm, the sun bright (and hot) and the apparent fun unending. There was not a hint of the high winds that trigger whiteouts an...

RENO - Government lawyers are asking a judge in Nevada to throw out a lawsuit filed by an 81-year-old tribal leader who is seeking $30 million from the Bureau of Land Management in a decades-old di...

More than 2,500 state retirees will soon get a letter telling them the Public Employee Benefit Program cards they received in the mail recently were mailed out by mistake.Jim Wells, executive direc...

More than 16,600 Nevada seniors will see what, for them, amounts to a tax increase next year.For years, seniors had the option of a tax refund on part of their property taxes or rent. That went awa...

DAYTON - Dayton's defense held Truckee to just one offensive score in the first half, but couldn't overcome early turnovers as Truckee built up a 20-0 halftime lead en route to a 33-14 win Friday n...

GARDNERVILLE - Alex Drozdoff and April Shonnard were in mid-season form at Friday's Class Races held at Lampe Park.In the class-race format, boys and girls run together in the same race based on th...

By Claudene Wharton
A new book written by two University of Nevada, Reno social work professors, is a perfect Labor Day read, giving an in-depth look into the lives of women working in Nevada casinos and serving to remind why the national holiday exists.

Kate Marshall resorted to an unusual tactic this week in her long-shot bid to become the first Democrat to win Nevada's most Republican congressional district in the Sept. 13 special election: She publicly acknowledged that she's a Democrat.

After spending much of the election running away from public displays of her party affiliation, she openly campaigned with the No. 2 ranking Democrat in the House, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

Nevada's teachers union issued its 2011 legislative report card recently and, my, what a joke. I mean, they may as well have started off their executive summary with, "A priest, a rabbi and a minis...

A Carson High teacher is on paid leave while police investigate allegations that she engaged in a romantic relationship with a student.Carson City School Superintendent Richard Stokes confirmed tha...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of the Carson City Ghost Walk's death have been greatly exaggerated.Despite political infighting over who would produce the popular annual event this year, o...

A Dayton woman will appear in court Sept. 14, charged in a January accident in Stagecoach that claimed the life of one and injured another. Jessica Lynn Sanchez, 37, was arrested at her home on ...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... In its never-ending frenzy of trying to dream up new ways to connect with the community, package its product and peddle tickets, every now and then the univer...

Adan Gomez has been a fixture on the soccer and basketball teams at Dayton High School the past couple of years.Playing football never entered Gomez's mind until last spring when the senior suddenl...

Opponents of Nevada%u2019s first black bear hunt plan to march to the governor%u2019s mansion Friday, again pressing for Gov. Brian Sandoval to intervene and stop the hunt.

After a 5:30 p.m. rally at the Capitol, the group will march through Carson City to the governor%u2019s mansion, according to organizers of NoBearHuntNV.org.

LAKE TAHOE — If another La Nina visits the Sierra this winter – all-time records were approached in 2010-11 with more than 700 inches of snow – Tahoe South ski resorts are ready to roll on another epic season.

Nevada could take in $16 million less in tax dollars this year due to online sales, according to a new report by the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN).
Sales tax currently accounts for 28.3 percent of the state’s general fund revenue while gaming taxes bring in 23.6 percent. Nevada ranks 11th in the nation in terms of sales tax reliance, according to a Congressional Research Service report, while the state’s maximum sales tax rate, 8.1 percent in Clark County, ranks 20th.

The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent unless proved guilty in court:

By Drew Bradley
RENO, Nev. — Professor Emma Sepulveda has mentored hundreds of students during her academic career at University of Nevada, Reno, but she never thought that she would have the opportunity to mentor a Chilean miner's daughter. Her name was Scarlette Sepulveda (no relation) and her dream was to go back to school one day, get a college degree, and learn to speak English.

Professor Sepulveda promised Scarlette that she would try to help her in any way she could.

The live video feed is here, and the agenda is here. One of the issues will be the Carson City Ghost Walk's second attempt to get funding, and a proposed increase in landfill rates.

RENO - A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest mustang roundups in the West, granting a rare emergency or...

A Carson City deputy is being credited with reviving a 1-year-old baby Wednesday morning after the boy was found by his mother submerged in 7 inches of water. "The baby was unresponsive when he ...

Lawmakers on Wednesday reluctantly approved a half-million dollars to pay for the special congressional election now being conducted by the counties, asking Secretary of State Ross Miller to try pa...