A 22-year-old Snyderville Basin man who had chosen to live the life of a traveler by hitching rides on trains died in July after he fell from a freight train in Nevada.

An Elko County woman has pleaded no contest but mentally ill to second-degree murder in the 2007 death of her 76-year-old mother.

Elko County school trustees have voted unanimously to buy a piece of land from the city of Wells for $25,000 to have room to expand Wells Elementary School if enrollment increases as expected in coming years.

Federal, state and local firefighters from northern Nevada were battling a wind-blown wildfire about 30 miles northwest of Elko.

A northeast Nevada woman is due to plead no contest but mentally ill to second-degree murder in the 2007 asphyxiation of her 76-year-old mother.

ELKO - Nevada ranchers are upset about a deal between the builder of a 680-mile natural gas pipeline and two environmental groups that agreed to drop their opposition to the project stretching from Oregon to Wyoming.

ELKO, Nev. - A defense lawyer says she's talking with a prosecutor about getting post traumatic stress treatment for a 22-year-old military veteran accused of attacking an elderly man at a northeast Nevada car wash.

For serving as "our showcase to the English-speaking world," the president of the autonomous Basque government pledged $281,500 to the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno during a campus ceremony on Monday.

ELKO, Nev. - State agriculture officials typically bracing for an invasion of Mormon crickets in northeast Nevada say the bigger threat to crops and rangeland so far this summer appears to be the regular, old grasshopper.

The Bureau of Land Management Elko District has tentatively scheduled two observation days-Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24-to provide the media and public opportunities to view ongoing BLM gather activities to remove excess wild horses in the Tuscarora gather area in Elko County, about 90 miles northwest of Elko, Nev.

Nic Dunn MyNews4.com - Sparks Police are still investigating what caused a truck to lose control and drive over a median and sidewalk in Sparks.

Jim Gibbons filed for divorce, the first couple is still divvying up the final spoils of matrimony.

Nevada's unemployment rate set a new record in June, hitting 14.2 percent statewide.

Nevada state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says she'll help try to find family practice lawyers in northeast Nevada willing to donate time to help domestic violence victims divorce abusive husbands.

Although Lyon County's population growth has slowed significantly in recent years, the county still showed the highest growth percentage in the state in the 2000s, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last month.