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The Washoe County School District is facing overcrowding and underfunding and will take a tax initiative before voters this year to help solve the problems. Educators see the importance of turning things around. And so does EDAWN.

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As we enter Northern Nevada's fire season homeowners are racing to get weeks cleaned out and firebreaks set. And Vince Thomas has an environmentally friendly solution. He runs herds of goats.  "They are great getting into rocky areas lawnmowers can't go, they eat close to six pounds of weeds a day, and they never complain," he says.  He also works with the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District and really understands how much a firebreak can help.  Erin B...

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Two ballot questions have qualified for the November election. Enough valid signatures have been approved by the Secretary of State's office to let voters decide whether Nevada should require background checks on sales at gun shows and whether or not recreational use of marijuana should be legal in the Silver State.  Erin Breen will outline the ballot initiatives tonight on Channel 2 News. Written by Erin Breen

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Clark County caucuses in February showed that Donald Trump had solid support. And when the party members got together this weekend they again showed how strongly they support their man. Hundreds poured into the Rio ballroom in Las Vegas and before the day was over Ed Williams, Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party resigned. He did it with a e-mail saying that that make up of the party had clearly changed since he took office and that he didn't feel he could be effective with t...

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Just yesterday a state-of-the-art hybrid power plant involving geothermal power and two types of solar power was unveiled east of Reno and it was touted as the future of energy. Yet Nevada's PUC has put its foot down on incentives for solar's residential use.

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Following Tuesday’s democratic debate, candidates and their teams made their way to the media spin room to speak with reporters.