Reno News

It's just past Mardi Gras but there are a number of events that play into that theme including the SPCA's Mardi Paws which concentrates on fat cats and on king canines .

K.C. Rivers scored 18 points to lead five Bighorns players in double figures as they beat the Idaho Stampede, 112-86, Friday at the Reno Events Center.

RENO, Nev. -- A rural Nevada sheriff's deputy is accused of stopping travelers on a lonely stretch of U.S. Interstate 80 and confiscating tens of thousands of dollars for the county without bringing charges, according to two federal lawsuits.

For once this week, the pool of mayoral candidates didn't expand on Friday. It did the opposite.

Reno police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at a park along the Truckee River just north of Renown Regional Medical Center.

A 28-year-old man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a woman in an apparent Carson City road rage incident.

Within a four-month period in the winter and spring of 1976, five young women disappeared in San Mateo County and were later found murdered.

Svitlana Weres was born and brought up in Kiev, the capitol of Ukraine. More than 18 years after she left Ukraine for the U.S., Weres, 47, now watches the political and military struggle in her home country from Reno.

In tonight's Places 2 Check Out, we take you inside Costa Vida - a new fresh Mexican restaurant that opened in south Reno last week.

More than three years after it closed its doors, an old fixture in the local fishing community is poised to recast its line once again.

The field of candidates running for Mayor of Reno continues to grow. Reno businesswoman Idora Silver added her name to a list of nearly a dozen Thursday.

The 10th annual Go Red For Women Luncheon will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa.

As the weather improves, there's more activity in Reno's growing Midtown district, including a number of new food-and-drink spots, a couple of galleries and continued city planning for wider sidewalks.

Police say they have re-opened the case of a University of Nevada student killed in the 1970s and new evidence might connect it to multiple Bay Area slayings.

The Peppermill Resort Spa Casino today announced a partnership with Ultimate Gaming to offer online poker play at the Peppermill's Reno property as well as the company's other properties, Western Village Inn & Casino in Sparks and three hotel-casinos in Wendover near the Utah line.

A storm that moved through overnight dropped more precipitation than expected, but the bad news for skiers is that most fell as rain, the National Weather Service reported.

Charles Crocker, the railroad's founder, picked the name of Guiseppe Verdi, an Italian composer, out of a hat to rename the town from O'Neil's Crossing.

Things are about to get heavy. The alternative metal band Tool will bring its brooding soundscape to the Reno Events Center on March 9. The last time the group was in town, a die-hard fan offered an insightful assessment of the live Tool experience, quoted in a 2007 Reno Gazette-Journal review of the show: "It's like a brutal sermon."

The Nevada Supreme Court will not be swayed to change its mind over term-out city council members running for mayor.

The job market is competitive for most people these days, but for people with felonies on their records, finding a job can be a nearly impossible task.