By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee A Hard Rock casino-hotel is coming to the outskirts of greater Sacramento, upping the competitive ante in the region’s increasingly crowded gambling market. The Hard Rock Cafe International chain has announced it will partner with the Enterprise Rancheria Indian tribe to build a mega-resort in Yuba County, not far from […]
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By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle Each night after dinner, David Padover invites his kids to join him in a high-tech scavenger hunt through their San Jose neighborhood. They pile into his Subaru Outback, turn on an app and hunt for electric scooters with drained batteries, pressing a button to make their quarry sound a […]
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By Wes Siler, Outside As the fire season lengthens and as wildfires become both more severe and more common, we need to start rolling information about them into our everyday lives—just like we do with the weather forecast. Luckily, visualizing the spread of a wildfire has gotten as easy as predicting afternoon showers thanks to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Salads are often an entrée in the summer, but sometimes I want something other than lettuce and fruit. That’s when the barbecue gets fired up. With how warm it has been lately, the last thing I want to do is get the kitchen even hotter. Again, the barbecue is the answer. This […]
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By Associated Press The NCAA plans to study how the expansion of legalized betting could affect college athletics and member schools. The NCAA announced Thursday it will create a working group of “subject matter experts” to assess areas such as officiating, NCAA rules, federal and state laws, and the use of integrity services. NCAA leadership […]
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By Larry Weitzman It has been exactly one year since I last tested a Hyundai Ioniq hybrid, however this time around my tester was a base model stickering for just $23,210. My prior test vehicle was a top of the line Ultimate edition. Essential they are the same vehicle except for content. But that doesn’t […]
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By KOLO-TV A Truckee man was booked Saturday on an arson charge after allegedly burning a store’s U.S. flag. The Truckee Police Department said a U.S. Army veteran donated a flag which officers hung to replace the damaged flag. Joshua Everett Lozon, 27, was booked Saturday morning on suspicion of committing arson. Read the whole […]
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By Jim Sallis, The Conversation Electric scooters are appearing in many major cities across the country, including South Lake Tahoe, bringing fun to riders, profits to scooter makers – and lots of potential risks to walkers and riders. San Diego, where I live, is at the forefront of the proliferation of electric rideables, and as […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 21, 2017, Las Vegas Review Journal. Government union chiefs often blame the nation’s looming public pension crisis on the failure of politicians to properly fund the benefits. A study, however, reveals that a major problem is the tendency of elected officials to offer more and more goodies […]
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By David Keiser, Gabriel E. Lade and Ivan Rudik Most Americans associate U.S. national parks with pristine environments that represent the very best of nature. In the 1916 law that established the National Park Service, Congress directed the new agency to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein […]
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