Reno News

Reno police arrest 17-year-old accused of shooting man in hospital parking lot. In connection with a shooting that wounded a 20-year-old man outside a Reno hospital.

Smoke from a prescribed burn near the Stampede Reservoir is producing thick smoke in the Truckee Meadows this morning.

Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:19 a.m. RENO, Nev. - Sharnel Silvey rides around downtown several times a month with the Reno Police Department's Regional Street Enforcement Team, eager to talk to the women who will get trapped in a sting operation while soliciting for prostitution.

Reno police are looking for a man who robbed a market Friday night. Shortly after 6:30, a young white man walked into the Valley Market on Valley and Denslow Roads.

RENO, Nev. - A judge agreed Friday to postpone the trial of a man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing one woman and assaulting two others on or near the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.

A 24-year-old man was sentenced to probation Friday for destroying a vehicle so his friend could collect an insurance settlement following a July 2008 crash that accidentally killed another friend, who was in on the scheme.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Washoe County Health Officials have not set a time for the next H1N1 vaccination clinic.

The popular Cash for Clunkers vehicle trade-in program may be long over for car shoppers, but it lives on in auto recycling yards in the Reno area.

The Reno Police Department says it has arrested a man it believes on Friday pulled a woman who suffers from cerebral palsy out of her wheelchair, raped her and left her lying half-naked behind a business in a shopping center.

The mini-documentary on the series of earthquakes that rattled the Reno area last year will be featured Thursday night on the National Geographic Channel.

A Reno insurance agent was arrested Thursday on suspicion of fraudulently submitting insurance policies for his family members, using other people's personal information, to collect commissions and bonuses.

Shanda Golden has joined her husband, Greg Golden, and his son, Grant Golden, at Bizarre Guitar and Guns.

A Southwest Airlines plane leaked about two gallons of fuel on the tarmac at Reno-Tahoe International Airport on Monday, prompting a hazardous materials response from the airport's fire department.

Reno police said debt and/or drugs were the motives for the Friday shooting of a 20-year-old man in a psychiatric hospital's parking lot.

A new report says prostitution-related arrests have plunged around Reno. A newspaper that examined the figures says prostitution-related arrests have declined to 89 so this year from 251 in 2004.

Allowing digital billboards in some areas of Reno will be considered this week by the Reno Planning Commission.

RENO, Nev. -- Former Miss Nevada Teresa Benitez-Thompson says she will seek the District 27 Assembly seat in Reno being vacated by veteran Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie.

Nevada state utility regulators plan a public meeting in Reno to hear from residents about electric, gas, telephone, railroad and water service in northern Nevada.

The cold snap in the Reno-Tahoe area Tuesday will be replaced by a warm trend for trick-or-treaters this weekend.

The adoptive parents of four children whose father was convicted of sexual abuse said his Friday sentence of two consecutive life terms was affirmation to their children who stood up to his abuse, and spoke out.