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Police say the suspects tied up the lone employee at the Game Force store on Plumb Lane after shoving a gun in his face about 6 p.m. Monday.

Jessie Beck Elementary School was vandalized over the weekend. The school is in central Reno at Plumb Lane and Sharon Way.

"For that child to say this is all that he's got and to fight for it and then people come and take it from him, its horrible," says J.R. Tolentino, a Las Vegas resident.

RENO, Nev. - Plants are shrinking in the Great Basin of Nevada, and warming climate could be the culprit, according to a paper published in the renowned science journal Global Change Biology based on research conducted by University of Nevada, Reno plant ecologist Beth Leger.

Dr. Ernest L. Mazzaferri Sr. became the first in his family to attend high school, going on to become a renowned expert in thyroid cancer treatment at the Ohio State University College of Medicine during the 1980s and '90s. Mazzaferri, 76, who was living in retirement in Henderson, Nev., died on Tuesday at his home in hospice care after suffering a ... (more)

Nevada lawmakers today will consider a bill that will mandate ward-only city council elections in Reno and in Sparks.

Jim Heston, an American guesthouse operator in Cambodia, has lived a life in denim and has the photos to prove it.

Representatives for those companies were able to tour the Nevada Air Guard Base in Reno to see first-hand what some of their employees do while working as Guardsmen and Women on weekends.

Kila Ka'aihue registered his second multi-homer game of the season en route to a 9-4 victory for the Reno Aces over the Albuquerque Isotopes on Friday night at Isotopes Park.

RHP Randall Delgado had his best outing of the season for Reno, as the Aces secured their first series victory, in a 5-1 win over the Albuquerque Isotopes at Isotopes Park on Saturday night.

It feels almost like being on a Hollywood movie set. There is a director, an underwater camera, make-up folks, a beautiful blonde and a sprinkling of crew members scurrying about.

An Assembly committee has passed a bill to establish ward-only in four Nevada cities.

In February, Reno police got a tip say a man was sexually exploited and "pimping" and 16-year-old girl.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong says the call came in about 2:45pm Wednesday in upper Kings Canyon, about three miles northeast of Spooner Summit.

Sparks City Manager Shaun D. Carey has announced that Sparks Deputy Police Chief Brian Allen, a 22-year veteran of the Sparks Police Department, as his choice to become the City's next Chief of Police.

A nonnative snail has turned up in the Truckee River in Nevada for the first time, and wildlife officials are hoping it doesn't harm the river's trout population or spread to Lake Tahoe.

Reno police are searching for leads in the stabbing death of a boy during a fight near a fast-food restaurant.

China Spring and Aurora Pines are camps for boys and girls, respectively. They primarily handle youths from the Carson City-Douglas County area and rural parts of Nevada.

One man is in the hospital and another is behind bars following a shooting in downtown Reno last night.

Nevada Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton, D-Las Vegas, left, and state Sen. Debbie Smith, D-Sparks, co-chair a joint legislative money committee at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev., on Friday, May 17, 2013.