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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., right, on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, as lawmakers come and go from the Senate after a bipartisan budget compromise cleared a procedural hurdle, advancing past a filibuster threshold on a 67-33 vote that ensures the measure will pass the Democratic-led ... (more)

In 1969, a story out of Reno detailed Howard Hughes' spending of millions over the previous two years to buy mining claims throughout Northern Nevada.

LAS VEGAS -- A report released Tuesday detailing caseloads at Nevada courthouses has administrators urging voters to approve a constitutional amendment next year to create a statewide appellate court.

A gunman opened fire at a hospital campus in Reno on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding two others before turning the weapon on himself.

Forty gorgeous girls will compete next month for the title of Miss Nevada USA 2014, and another 20 will compete in the Miss Nevada Teen USA Pageant.

Just in time for the gift-giving season, official merchandise of the Nevada Sesquicentennial celebration is now available for purchase.

State Treasurer Kate Marshall and the Board of Trustees of the College Savings Plans of Nevada are conducting a contest for Nevada residents who purchase a Nevada Prepaid Tuition contract prior to December 31, 2013.

City of Las Vegas employee Marco Velotta received the 2013 Individual Award for Organizational Excellence at the recent U.S. Green Building Council Nevada Green Gala held at the Nevada State Museum.

A father and son from Nevada have pleaded guilty in Texas over a nearly $7 million timeshare resale scam that bilked about 1,000 people.

Congress has allowed the prostitution industry to slip into the U.S. tax code and for NASA to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep people in bed, according to Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn's annual "Wastebook" report.

At the Board of Regents meeting in Elko in September, the Health Sciences System Committee directed the presidents of UNR and UNLV, along with the UNR medical school dean, to develop plans to create full-scale, four-year allopathic campuses in Reno and Las Vegas, ultimately resulting in a separate, independent, freestanding UNLV School of Medicine.

For families with low incomes, the holidays can be especially tough. While most children want toys or games for Christmas, the only thing a local 12-year-old boy wants this year, is for his sister to get a gift.

The clock is ticking for congress to extend Emergency Unemployment Compensation for those out of work.

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One person is dead and another was transported to the hospital following a crash at Bonanza and Pecos roads Monday.

One person is dead and another was transported to the hospital following a crash at Bonanza and Pecos roads Monday.

One person is dead and another was transported to the hospital following a crash at Bonanza and Pecos roads Monday.

Crafty, calculating and often unfiltered in his public remarks, Reid is the ultimate political survivor who has come back again and again to defy those who wrote him off.

The biggest threat to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's future in the Senate isn't the success or failure of the Affordable Care Act.

Despite reports that they were long lost, moon rocks from two different Apollo missions that were presented to the state of Nevada have gone on public display in Reno.