The Nevada Highway Patrol has seized more than 150 pounds of marijuana from the driver of a moving truck stopped on Interstate 80 near Winnemucca.

Los Angeles County's sanitation districts are no longer pursuing plans to build a 4,000-acre landfill near Joshua Tree National Park on former mine land.

The National Park Service is ending unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers earlier than expected.

There was always been a special connection between space shuttle Endeavour and California, where it was built.

In a story May 22 about the U.S. Interior Department awarding more than $20 million in grants for water conservation projects, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the federal agency, reported erroneously that the North Yuba Water District in California had received one of the grants.

A 44-year-old Fernley man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for soliciting children for sex over the Internet.

The last of the brothers accused of creating an infamous Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Friday to helping send hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States, marking one of the final milestones in an investigation that began nearly two decades ago.

A lawsuit in Mississippi says a man was seriously injured after he was attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets, jumped off his riding lawnmower and was run over by the machine.

Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series "Arrested Development" will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service.

Three U.S. men have qualified for the French Open for the first time in more than 30 years.

Orange County has officially honored the birthday of the late Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected politician.

A summer rite of passage is underway at Yosemite National Park, where the handrails on Half Dome are in place and hikers began scaling the granite monolith Friday morning.

The former president of a local Southern California PTA has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing $20,000 raised from children's candy bar sales.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have killed a man they say pointed a gun at them during a chase in Compton.

Flynn Robinson, who was on the 1971-1972 Lakers team that won Los Angeles its first NBA title, has died at age 72.