Arizona and Fremont, Neb., are at the forefront of the movement by governments to get tough with illegal immigrants. But they are learning that passing a law is far from enough.
Parts of Arizona's controversial immigration law went into effect Thursday, after a judge blocked the heart of the measure, defusing a confrontation between police and activists.
The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will no longer be able to make the information private.
The government's point man for the Gulf spill plans to meet with coastal parish officials Thursday to talk about what's next now that the oil has stopped flowing.
A woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy campground was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead so the animal would leave her alone, she said Thursday.
A package addressed from "Grandpa Henderson" in San Diego to "Grandma Henderson" in Talladega, Ala., wasn't ordinary mail, and it wasn't picked up by any grandmother.
A senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials say the body of a second U.S. sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan has been recovered.
After welcome signs of growth in housing earlier this year, home sales appear to be wilting again in the summer heat. Home prices in many parts of the country have yet to hit bottom.
At least one police officer and two suspects were killed Wednesday when a gunbattle erupted during an undercover drug operation in Phoenix, police said.
A former money manager pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud, admitting that he cheated charities, schools, pension funds and others out of at least $331 million.
Hundreds of firefighters gained ground against the most destructive of two big wildfires that have burned homes and forced 2,300 people to evacuate rural areas north of Los Angeles.
The U.S. economic recovery will remain slow deep into next year, held back by shoppers not spending and employers not hiring, according to an AP survey of leading economists.
The Nevada Humane Society in Reno is creating a buzz on the Internet and making national news since it posted a video on its website of dancing volunteers celebrating a dog's adoption.
The short-staffed Reno Fire Department will be calling firefighters back to work on overtime when wildland fires threaten the Truckee Meadows this summer.
Editor's note: Once a month, the RGJ and University of Nevada, Reno will profile a local organization that has grown with assistance from the university.
The objections of Reno City Councilmen Dwight Dortch and Dan Gustin to the reappointment of Donna Dreska, who has held the post for the past 14 months but asked to return to her previous job in December as city manager, were well-taken. The next few years will be among the most challenging the city -- as all local governments -- has ever faced.
Justin Owen and Ryan Gold, 30-ish owners of Old Granite Street Eatery, aren't Young Fogeys ; they're not, to put it a similar way, flamboyantly old school.
Home >> Smoke is easily seen now west of Reno-Sparks at sunset. The smoke is coming up from the south from a fire in Sequoia National Park and from a fire near the Mojave Desert.
Consumers kept a tight hold on their wallets in Washoe County again in May as taxable sales tumbled 3.8 percent from a year earlier, the state reported today.
Randy Fasano first told police he had rigged a tiny wall camera from his bedroom laptop to his new female roommate's bedroom in May 2009 because he wanted to watch her cat play.
A 19-year-old man has been jailed on an attempted murder charge, accused of making a suicide attempt by crashing his vehicle head-on in to another motorist, police said.
Firefighters continued Monday to contain several brush fires caused by lightning strikes and made progress on the large Constantia Complex Fire about 45 miles north of Reno.
