By Associated Press A district judge has put Nevada’s sweeping school choice program on hold just weeks before money was expected to flow to parents for private school tuition. Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson granted a preliminary injunction Monday that orders the state treasurer to stop implementing Nevada’s new education savings accounts pending […]
Read more
By Lisa Leff, AP Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even the record sum proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown is unlikely to reverse the state’s standing as a comparative miser when it comes to investing in public schools, advocates and education officials said. […]
Read more
By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County is on the hunt for a four-year college that will open a campus within the rural county, hoping to give students an opportunity they now can only find elsewhere. A four-year campus would benefit students and the community, backers said, reducing the time students often spend commuting […]
Read more
By Las Vegas Sun The Strip is like a one-night stand for many young travelers. It’s good for a quick visit, but it’s not the only memory they want of a Western adventure. Millennials with cash to travel want interesting and unique stories as vacation memorabilia, said Bethany Drysdale, public relations director for TravelNevada, formerly […]
Read more
By Mike Wolterbeek When the Federal Highway Administration needed to update it’s crucial and complicated 30-year-old formula for fuel consumption and vehicle operating cost predictions, it awarded the project to UNR’s renowned Pavements/Materials Program. The results of the study will give federal highway managers more accurate data as they seek to improve the nation’s transportation […]
Read more
· Bryan Davis, Edgewood Companies marketing guy, has been appointed to the Douglas County Planning Commission. JoEtta Brown was reappointed. The elected county commissioners make those decisions. · South Lake Tahoe fire rescue is hosting a coats for kids drive this month. All donations will be distributed to children in need within South Lake Tahoe. […]
Read more
By William Yardley, Los Angeles Times For more than two decades, conservation groups have argued that a wolf and the rainforest in southeast Alaska where it lives are at risk. While the groups have won strong restrictions on logging of the Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest, they have been denied in their efforts to […]
Read more
What originally was expected to be a decent storm headed to Tahoe has broken apart. Forecasters from the National Weather Service in Reno are now saying the system headed to the greater Lake Tahoe area “will brush to the north of the area on Monday and Tuesday with little to no precipitation for the Sierra […]
Read more
Big is a beautiful, tall 1-year-old German shepherd. He is a sweet boy who would love to go to training classes. He loves to play with other dogs. Like many German Shepherds, he is very smart and a bit aloof until he gets to know you, but then he is very affectionate. Big is neutered, […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed A proposed 17 percent rate increase by Liberty Utilities generated little interest from the public in the way of giving feedback to the California Public Utilities Commission. The commissioners, who are responsible for granting or declining the hike, conducted four hearings last week – two in Kings Beach and two in […]
Read more