Investors scouring for hints of a housing upturn won't find much evidence in the second-quarter preliminary sales results of luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc.

State Republican Party leaders are still hunting for a date to complete a convention abruptly shut down prior to final votes on what was shaping up as a Nevada delegation to the national GOP convention with more supporters for Ron Paul than John McCain.

U.S. Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., filed without fanfare Monday for a fourth two-year term representing a suburban Las Vegas district that has been coveted by Democrats since its creation in 2001.

A Northern California mother is dealing with a double tragedy after her daughter was killed during a weekend prom date and her son was severely injured in a car crash.

A teenage girl has drowned in the Colorado River along the Bullhead City shore, authorities said.

Nearly 150 years after gold was discovered in Boulder County along Gold Run Creek, a couple of old mines are slowly cranking back into operation now that excavating the slender veins of precious metal is profitable again.

Arizona Republicans declined Saturday to pick John McCain's conservative critics as the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention, heading off possible embarrassment for the presumptive GOP nominee in his home state.

Rich socialite Alva Belmont spent a fortune building a Chinese teahouse behind her mansion estate in this seaside resort for Gilded Age industrialists. Now, nearly a century later, the Chinese are arriving in her backyard.

A package of budget cuts was submitted Friday to Nevada lawmakers by Gov. Jim Gibbons, who's trying to cope with a projected revenue shortfall that could approach $1 billion by mid-2009 and lead to staff cuts and layoffs.

Environmental groups sharply criticized a final federal management plan Friday for millions of acres of rugged and remote public lands in northern Arizona's Arizona Strip.